{"id":1131,"date":"2022-12-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/article\/politicka-vaznost-borbi-titovih-i-mihailovicevih-snaga-u-istocnoj-bosni-i-sandzaku-ujesen-1943-godine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:11:01","slug":"the-political-importance-of-the-struggles-of-titos-and-mihailovics-forces-in-eastern-bosnia-and-sandzak-in-the-autumn-of-1943","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/article\/the-political-importance-of-the-struggles-of-titos-and-mihailovics-forces-in-eastern-bosnia-and-sandzak-in-the-autumn-of-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Importance of the Struggles of Tito\u2019s and Mihailovi\u0107\u2019s Forces in Eastern Bosnia and Sandzak in the Autumn of 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on archival and published sources and relevant literature, the article describes the struggles of the communist movement led by Josip Broz Tito, the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOVJ), against the Ravna Gora Chetnik monarchist movement led by Dragoljub Dra\u017ea Mihailovi\u0107, the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (JVuO), in the fall of 1943 in eastern Bosnia and Sand\u017eak. Based on primarily German archival sources, the article describes the course of the fighting between Tito\u2019s and Mihailovi\u0107\u2019s forces in which Tito\u2019s forces won. These struggles also had their international dimension, because shortly after their end, a conference was held in Tehran, at which Great Britain changed its previous policy. The change in British policy was reflected in the suspension of Mihailovi\u0107\u2019s support and open support given exclusively to Tito. The British state leadership, led by Winston Churchill, supported Tito because, due to the NOVJ\u2019s military efficiency, he fit into the British strategy of inflicting as many losses as possible on German forces, while the support for Mihailovi\u0107 was suspended due to accusations of collaborating with German forces in the joint fight against the NOVJ. There have been numerous historiographical controversies about the reasons why Great Britain changed its policy towards Mihailovi\u0107, ignoring the importance of the struggles waged by the NOVJ and JVuO forces in the autumn of 1943. What has been largely neglected in the literature so far is the fact that one of the immediate consequences of these battles was the open cooperation of the JVuO in the Sand\u017eak area with German forces. Although the agreement signed with German forces by the JVuO commander in Sand\u017eak, Vojislav Luka\u010devi\u0107, is known in the literature, it was not placed in the context of previous NOVJ and JVuO battles in eastern Bosnia and Sand\u017eak, nor in the changes in Churchill\u2019s policy toward Mihailovi\u0107. This paper aims to fill this gap and to explain the interdependence between these three events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on archival and published sources and relevant literature, the article describes the struggles of the communist movement led by Josip Broz Tito, the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOVJ), against the Ravna Gora Chetnik monarchist movement led by Dragoljub Dra\u017ea Mihailovi\u0107, the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (JVuO), in the fall of 1943 in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":236,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[798,799,327,801,802,803,804,800],"class_list":["post-1131","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-battles","tag-dragoljub-draza-mihailovic","tag-great-britain","tag-josip-broz-tito","tag-sandzak","tag-velika-britanija","tag-vojislav-lukacevic","tag-world-war-ii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffstopenpress.ffst.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}