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Serbian song from Kosovo
A popular serbian wedding song from Kosovo and Metohia. Although it is performed on festive occasions, the song begins with sad verses: "A dense fog has fallen... not a thing can be seen." A large number of songs from Kosovo begin with the same verses. These words are a metaphor for the suffering and pain of the Kosovo Serbs in slavery under the Turks. Dense fog symbolizes the burden of life, under the pressure of which freedom cannot be glimpsed ("not a thing can be seen"). In the very next verse, like light shining through the darkness of slavery, the song places a tall tree in sight. Beneath it sits a tailor, sewing a wedding waistcoat upon which silver adornments shine like stars in the sky. These verses testify to the existence of faith, hope and joy even in slavery.
The words of this song are as true today as they were once.
Length: 287
Rating: 4.80 (556 ratings)
Tags: kosovo serbia metohija srbija
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Serbian Warriors IV
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović (Anglicised: Drazha Mihailovich; also known as Čiča, born in Ivanjica, Kingdom of Serbia, April 27, 1893-July 17, 1946) was a Serbian general now primarily remembered as leader of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland during World War II. U.S. President Harry S. Truman posthumously awarded him the Legion of Merit for overseeing the rescue of five hundred American airmen by Chetniks during World War II. Following the Yugoslav defeat by Germany in April 1941, a small group of officers and soldiers led by Mihailović refused to surrender, and retreated in hope of finding Yugoslav army units still fighting in the mountains. At Ravna Gora, Mihailović organized the Chetniks detachment of the Yugoslav Army, which became the Military-Chetnik Detachments and finally the Yugoslav Army of the Homeland(Jugoslovenska vojska u otadžbini). The first Chetnik formations led by Mihailović were formed around Ravna Gora on June 14. The stated goal of the Chetniks was the liberation of the country from the occupying armies including the forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Ustaše (the fascist regime of the Independent State of Croatia). In 1943, the Germans decided to pursue the Chetniks in the northern zone, and offered a reward of 100,000 Reichsmarks for the capture of Mihailović, dead or alive. The British Special Operations Executive were being sent to aid Mihailović's forces beginning with the autumn of 1941. The Chetniks were forced to move to eastern Bosnia where they engaged in heavy combat with the Ustaše. The Chetnik movement was highly decentralized, and in that way was more like a collective of many small regional guerrillas which shared the same name, rather than a unified army under complete control of Mihailović and his staff. Evidence of Mihailović's loyal Allied and anti-Axis actions, all the way to the end of the occupation, comes from the 500 to 600 Allied (mostly UK and US) military personnel who were rescued by Mihailović forces over almost the entire area where Mihailović forces existed. These British and American personnel often remained with Mihailović and his various forces for months at a time, before they were able to be flown back to the West. As an independent American commission concluded in 1946, these Allied airmen were instructed by their American and British superiors to look for any signs of collaboration, they were given freedom of movement by Mihailović forces, and yet not one of these hundreds testified of Mihailović collaboration with the Axis. Several of these western military personnel gave very detailed testimony of witnessing, and in some cases participating in, anti-Axis actions, even after the Chetniks were abandoned by the Western Allies. The independent American commission that took testimony from some of these airmen concluded:"ALLEGED COLLABORATION WITH THE ENEMY No evidence was adduced before the commission which tended to show any collaboration between General Mihailović and the Axis powers. On the contrary, all the evidence tended strongly to disprove the existence of any such collaboration. ...all classes of witnesses were constantly on the lookout for collaboration, had full opportunity to discover it, and would be expected to discover it if it had existed. ... all the witnesses testified that in Mihailović territory they were allowed to go freely, and without escort, wherever they wanted, to talk without restriction to civilians and soldiers alike, and to make observations as they wished.
OPERATIONS AGAINST THE ENEMY The evidence of American officers before the Commission indicated not merely the absence of collaboration between General Mihailović and the Axis powers, but also establish that General Mihailović and his men continued to conduct hostile operations against both the Germans and the Italians, even after the Allies had stopped sending him supplies and had concentrated their support in favor of Marshal Tito, and even after the date of the Italian surrender. American officers testified to numerous specific operations of this kind in which they had themselves participated with General Mihailović or with troops acting under his direction.
Length: 612
Rating: 4.60 (190 ratings)
Tags: Cetnik Cetnici Cica Draza Mihailovic Dinarska Divizija Srbija Srpska Krajina Kosovo i Metohija Cetnicki Pokret CCCC
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Serbian Warriors III
The Balkan Wars and the First World War 1912-1918
Balkanski Ratovi i Prvi Svetski Rat 1912-1918
Za krst casni i slobodu zlatnu - Vecna Slava
The Serbian Campaign was fought from August 1914, when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia at the outset of First World War, until the end of the war in 1918. The front ranged from the Danube to southern Macedonia and back north again, involving forces from almost all combatants of the war. The Serbian Army was decimated towards the end of the war, falling from about 420,000[1] at its peak to about 100,000 at the moment of liberation. The Kingdom of Serbia had lost 1.3 million inhabitants during the war (both army and civilian losses), which represented 33% of its overall population and 60% of its male population - a demographic disaster that is still obvious today. (In official : Serbia lost 370,000 soldiers, or 26 percent, of all mobilised people (for ex. France 16.8; Germany 15.4; Russia 11.5; Italy 10.3 per cent). World War I was, in at least one sense, started when a group of young men (calling themselves Young Bosnia), most likely backed by a secret Serbian society (the Black Hand) assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Austria-Hungary issued a set of demands, the July Ultimatum. Serbia accepted all but one of them. The Austrians rejected the Serbian response and mobilized their southern army for a war against Serbia. Serbia had an experienced army, having fought two wars in the last two years, but it was also exhausted and poorly equipped and the Austrians thought that they would fall in less that a month. Serbia's strategy was to hold on as long as they could and hope the Russians could defeat the main Austro-Hungarian Army. Serbia constantly had to worry about its hostile neighbor to the east, Bulgaria, with which it had fought several wars, most recently in the 1913. The Serbian army at the start of the war was some 180,000 strong, commanded by Marshal (Vojvoda) Radomir Putnik. Putnik brilliantly handled the Serbian Army, even though he almost never left his special hospital room in Serbia. The war against Serbia started on August 12, when Austro-Hungarian armies crossed the border, the Drina River. While the entire Austro-Hungarian Army was very large, due to the Russian declaration of war, the Austro-Hungarians could only attack with two small armies (the Fifth and the Sixth) over the Bosnian border. They had around 280,000 men, and were much better equipped than the Serbians. Overall, Austrian command was in the hands of the ineffective General Potiorek. The Serbian Army threw back repeated attempts to cross the Drina and Sava rivers (this action is called the Battle of Cer or the Battle of Jadar). After very hard fighting, the Austro-Hungarian Army halted their attempts. In early September, the Serbs launched a small offensive into southern Bosnia, hoping to incite a revolt among their fellow Slavs. However, the offensive had no effect and was driven out within a few weeks.
Kolubarska bitka ili Suvoborska bitka jedna je od najvećih i najznačajnijih bitaka između vojske Kraljevine Srbije i Austro-Ugarske u Prvom svetskom ratu. Vođena je 30 dana na frontu od 200 km kilometara. Okončana je uspešnom protivofanzivom koju su izvele snage pod vođstvom generala Živojina Mišića, protiv brojnije i nemerljivo bolje opremljene austrougarske vojske u trenutku kada je ceo svet očekivao vesti o kapitulaciji Kraljevine Srbije.
Kolubarska bitka ušla je u istoriju ratovanja kao jedinstven primer da se vojska, kojoj je predviđen potpun slom, za kratko vreme reorganizuje, pređe u kontraofanzivu i nanese neprijatelju odlučujući poraz. Taktika pregrupisavanja samo I armije i koncentrisanog udara na VI armiju(koja je bila razvučena na širokom frontu) koju je izveo Živojin Mišić danas se izučava na vojnim školama širom sveta.
Kolubarska bitka je značajna i po tome što su obe vojske u operacijama nisu imale strategijske rezerve kojima bi mogle da ojačaju svoje linije tamo gde je to neophodno, već su to postizale prebacivanjem snaga sa jednog na drugi deo fronta.
Length: 318
Rating: 4.50 (232 ratings)
Tags: Serbia Srbija Karadjordjevic Srpska Srpski Serbian Kosovo Krajina Hellas Vojnik Otadzbina Solun Orthodox Borci Balkan SR
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