Chapter 3
Whirlwind from the East: The Advance of Communist Power, 1941–1948
The Axis and the Balkans
By the second half of 1941, all the Balkan states (with the exception of Turkey) were under Axis control of one kind or another. Yugoslavia had been partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria. Much of Slovenia was acquired by Germany which deported Slovene intellectuals and professionals and brought in German settlers, including many of the 100,000 or so German speakers who had evacuated Bessarabia when it fell to Russia in 1940. Macedonia was divided between Italy and Bulgaria. Montenegro was acquired by the Italians who annexed large parts of Bosnia and Dalmatia which, together with Albania, gave them control of the entire Adriatic ...
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