28: Serbian Collaborationists - From New Serbia to White Yugoslavia

In TENE's 28th episode, Rey gives a detailed look at the collaborationist regime of Nazi-occupied Serbia (1941-1944). The regime was led by Milan Nedić, a former general and Yugoslav government minister, close to the fascist politics of his relative Dimtrije Ljotić, leader of the Zbor movement. The boys discuss various collaborationist armed forces, such as the Serbian Volunteer Corps (Ljotić’s ideological army), the Serbian State Guard (formed out of gendarmerie loyal to Nedić), Chetniks of Kosta Pećanac (a veteran chetnik leader, tight with fascists since the ‘20s), and the Special Police (a former Belgrade anti-communist police unit that effectively joined the Nedić regime). The crew also mentions the relationship these forces had with the royalist Chetniks of Draža Mihailović, as well as their role in the Holocaust and other reprisals against the civilian population. To conclude, Rey covers how the regime tried to implement the "Ljotić plan", gathering all of the collaborationist forces in Slovenia, to establish a kind of "white", anticommunist Yugoslavia there. This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that... Subscribe to our Patreon for weekly premium episodes! And check out our social media for updates and whatnot: Twitter + Facebook + Instagram + YouTube