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To say which of the dead technology is stronger, the Yugoslav Federation is definitely on the list, and I think that before the goods disintegrated, it could be just with the two great powers of the Soviet Union and the United States.
You must know that after World War II, under the bipolar pattern, basically all countries have to be people with their tails between their legs, and it is not easy for the powerful military and economic forces of the United States and the Soviet Union to pinch who it is, just by looking at the United States and the artillery thinning out, we know how strong the hard power is.
And the Soviet Union, which can compete with it, certainly not to let go, but these two bulls have nostrils that are eager to grow in the sky, but they have to give way to Upper Yugoslavia, and today we will talk about how strong the Balkan tigers, which were once at the peak, are really strong.
Yugoslavia full name Yugoslav Socialist Federal Republic, covers a small area, that is, 260,000 square kilometers, a Hulunbuir city so large, the population of 20 million, but as the saying goes, condensed are the essence, although Yugoslavia is not an individual, but the analogy is not bad, this goods during the Cold War, became the third largest force in Europe after the Warsaw Pact, NATO, but also a cannibalistic and do not spit bones of the powerful lord.
The military strength of Yugoslavia in Tito's time was a sign on the back of a turtle - the brand was hard, and it was the best in Europe and could rank in the top five in the world.
In 1970, the size of the Yugoslav army reached 600,000 people, the reserve service was as high as 2 million, with all kinds of weapons and equipment, more than 1100 tanks, 600 anti-tank guns, 1300 various armored vehicles and more than 1,000 heavy artillery, more than 8,000 mortars, 160 rockets, and even 4 anti-aircraft missile regiments.
In addition, the Yugoslav Navy's air force is not bad, with a total of more than 400 fixed-wing aircraft and 200 helicopters, and more than 80 ships in the water.
It can be said that people are an excellent baby with all-round development of land, sea and air, and the most important thing is that the Yugoslav army is not an empty and equipped flower shelf, but has a very strong tenacity.
During World War II, the German army took only two weeks to take the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but the tenacious soldiers and civilians did not tie their hands, but used guerrilla warfare under the leadership of Tito to fight a beautiful turnaround battle!
It is said that the soldiers instigate one, will instigate a nest, the reason why Yugoslavia can rise from the mud, the iron-blooded leader Tito is indispensable,
This young man from the countryside made his fortune with only a few guns snatched from the Nazis, established the brave and warlike First Brigade of the Proletarians, and pinned down 510,000 German and Italian troops and 150,000 puppet troops armed to the teeth with only 80,000 weapons of guerrillas.
By 1942, the Yugoslav Partisans led by Tito had to use 150,000 troops to kill 930,000 invading and puppet armies, becoming the only country in Europe to kill hundreds of thousands of Nazi troops on its own and successfully regain the dominance.
So the self-established Yugoslavia has the courage to say no to any pretender who wants to tear off its flesh.
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, which had soared in strength, had tried to expand into the Balkan Peninsula and pull Yugoslavia into its own camp, but how could a naturally anti-bone Yugoslavia be willing to honestly submit to the Soviet Union.
Tito, a cattleman who has never been afraid to fight with The Heavenly King Lao Tzu, simply led Yugoslavia to directly break with the Soviet Union in 1948, implementing the "Yugoslav model" national development path, openly contradicting the "Soviet model", and beating the face of the big brother of the Soviet Union to a crack.
Stalin, who had been saying that he had been killed for a lifetime, was almost knocked out of his teeth by tito's hard bone, and it is said that Stalin carried out 22 assassinations in order to kill tito, but all of them returned home, and finally he was frightened by Tito's threatening letter into a stroke, paralyzed and bleeding, suffocated, and wiped his ass with gauze - but he really missed a big hand!
To put it bluntly, if the Soviet Union had been violent in the past who did not obey whom, it should have struck a heavy blow at Yugoslavia, when the Soviet Union had a large number of elite troops stationed in East Germany, Poland and other regions.
In addition, a coordinated combat military system has been established in Eastern Europe, with at least 500,000 mobilizable troops in hand, which is to see who is floating and who is beaten, such as the Hungarian incident in 1956, the Poznan incident, and the Prague Spring incident in 1968.
But the amazing thing is that it obviously hates Yugoslavia's teeth, the Soviet Union has clenched its fists and did not move, and one of the reasons why it is so reclusive is that its influence in Yugoslavia is too weak and does not have enough right to speak.
The reason why East Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and other countries saw the Soviet Union was the same as the rats saw the cat, because after World War II, they all stood up on the crutch of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union did not idle when helping the Eastern European countries, and by the way strengthened its influence, turned them into marionettes in their hands, and achieved absolute control over the Eastern European countries.
Yugoslavia, on the other hand, which made its fortune on its own, was very tough, and the Soviet Union's hand could not reach it at all, and as for the strong attack, it was not a cost-effective deal.
At that time, the Yugoslav military and civilians had a total of nearly 200,000 troops, and there were many auxiliary troops, although the number was a big difference, but the main ethnic group, the Serbian people, were fierce, had a number of tigers, strong combat effectiveness, and the weapons industry could keep up, if the Soviet Union really confronted Yugoslavia, although it would not be defeated, it would have to shed a layer of skin, kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.
In addition, the Soviet Union did not dare to force Yugoslavia too tightly, Yugoslavia is located in the Balkan Peninsula geographical location is too special, it is in the junction of Europe and Asia, connecting the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean is an extremely important strategic channel, who controls here, can hold the Mediterranean, left and right in the Middle East, affect the Eurasian continent.
Although the Soviet Union could unite the entire Balkan Peninsula and the Soviet-controlled Middle East into one and form a huge strategic advantage by swallowing Yugoslavia, the problem was that the Yugoslavs were not happy, and if they were to throw themselves into the arms of the United States, they would really cry.
If Yugoslavia had joined the American family, the Soviet Union's strategy of going south from Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean sea and opening up the Black Sea would have been blocked.
Interestingly, although Yugoslavia, under the banner of "neutrality", actually moved closer to the West diplomatically, it never deviated from the socialist road and ate everything.
The Soviet Union could do nothing about it after weighing it up several times, and the United States, which regarded Yugoslavia as a gap in the socialist camp to split, although it knew that this old man was a big traitor, still did its best to help Yugoslavia in order to resist the Soviet Union.
In this way, Yugoslavia became a yellow sparrow in the future, gained a lot of benefits, and its economy developed rapidly, once richer than the Soviet Union.
By the 1970s, home appliances such as televisions and refrigerators had entered the homes of ordinary people and become a necessity of life, and the luxury of cars was owned by 40% in Yugoslavia, a high proportion that many Warsaw Pact countries could not reach.
In addition, in Yugoslavia at that time, the education expenses before the age of fifteen were paid by the state, which was similar to our current nine-year compulsory education, and the medical pension was not bad.
The high level of social welfare makes people can't help but smirk, which shows that Yugoslavia is absolutely rich and oily, and the breath of money is really ready to come out.
However, under this prosperous world, what was hidden was the inner part of Yugoslavia, which had long been eroded, and the evil consequences gradually began to appear after Tito's death, directly starting the process of self-destruction.
Tito's tough wrist, although the Western countries can not directly subvert the Yugoslav regime, they are bound to not sit still, through the infiltration of Yugoslav culture, life, nationality and other aspects, they have achieved their goal in disguise - to westernize the young people of Yugoslavia.
And these young people became the initiators of the chaos in Yugoslavia, they caught up with the most developed time in Yugoslavia, after undergoing the brainwashing of Western civilization, they began to yearn for a free and open Western world, and when these young people stepped onto the stage of history, the gate knife for dismembering Yugoslavia would naturally fall.
Of course, the most fundamental cause of the disintegration of Yugoslavia is the intertwined ethnic contradictions, yugoslavia is a multi-ethnic state spun up by six nationalities.
Between 1919, although everyone was neighbors of each other and multiplied together in the land of Yugoslavia for thousands of years, there were great differences in religious beliefs, cultural traditions, economic development and many other aspects, so that the six brothers with different personalities met together, even if they burned high incense, it was impossible not to fight.
After the First World War, these six goods were unified into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, known as the "national prison", when the Serbs of the six nationalities occupied the throne of the Yugoslav rulers with thunderous power, not only the king and the previous prime ministers were Serbs, but also the senior generals were also occupied by half of the sky.
However, this is a cheap and well-behaved lord who has made great strides, vigorously promoted Serbianism, not to say that Slovenia and Croatia are branches of Serbia, and originally liked to be the "father" of people, regardless of nationality.
As far as this Serb is concerned, it is still a little thin-skinned for these two, and the other ethnic groups are the miserable ones, directly becoming anonymous, unrecognized, oppressed, unprecedented tension in ethnic relations, and basically zero national cohesion.
Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance, and the Croats, the second largest ethnic group in the country, fight with the Serbs on the principle of doing whatever they want.
First in 1928 the Serbs assassinated the Croatian leader Dich in the Yugoslav King's Parliament, and then, in retaliation, the Croats sent King Alexander of Serb blood to see Yama, and the hatred between the two sides rose sharply.
At the outbreak of World War II, the Croatian Ustaš elements used mass extermination at the instigation of fascism to mutilate hundreds of thousands of Serbs, and the Serbian Chetnik elements also did not want to be left behind and washed the Croat areas with tit-for-tat blood.
It can be said that there is an irreconcilable blood sea feud between the two sides.
After that, the Yugoslav government headed by Tito came to power, held high the banner of national unity, implemented the policy of national equality, and used the means of first purging a group of nationalists of their own Croat nationality and replacing many Serbian leaders as a means to temporarily "ease the national contradictions".
Although under Tito's thunderous means, everyone had to shake hands and make peace, the rift between the nationalities was still there and would not disappear, and once there was a wind and grass, the national problem would begin to surge.
So as soon as Tito hung up there, in the context of economic deterioration and intensification of national interest problems, nationalism on this side re-emerged, and everyone quickly separated according to the trembling hands of the heart that could not hold back the excitement, and the Balkan little Kongo split into Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Kosovo.
It can be said that the tragedy of the disintegration of Yugoslavia was self-destruction on the basis of the peaceful evolution of the West, the intervention of western countries was the catalyst, and the deep-rooted national problems of Yugoslavia and the failure of the reform of the political and economic system were the reactions, and the Balkan tigers came to an end on the stage of history!