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|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>Mass murder

|goals = Establish a "Greater Serbia" (failed)<br>Wipe put the Bosnian Croats and Muslims (failed)

|type of villains = Terrorists}}{{Quote|For king and fatherland; freedom or death.|The Chetnik motto.}}The '''Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army''', commonly known as the '''Chetniks''', also the '''Yugoslav Army in the Homeland''' and '''The Ravna Gora Movement''', was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement in occupied Yugoslavia led by [[Draža Mihailović]], which was anti-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] in its long-term goals, and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods. They also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with the occupying forces for almost all of the war. The Mihailović Chetniks were not a homogeneous movement. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by establishing ''modus vivendi'' or operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the Chetnik movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the Nedić forces in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, then with the Italians in occupied Dalmatia and Montenegro, with some of the [[Ustaše]] forces in northern Bosnia, and, after the Italian capitulation, with the Germans directly.

|type of villains = Terrorists}}

{{Quote|For king and fatherland; freedom or death.|The Chetnik motto.}}

The '''Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army''', commonly known as the '''Chetniks''', also the '''Yugoslav Army in the Homeland''' and '''The Ravna Gora Movement''', was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement in occupied Yugoslavia led by [[Draža Mihailović]], which was anti-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] in its long-term goals, and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods. They also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with the occupying forces for almost all of the war. The Mihailović Chetniks were not a homogeneous movement. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by establishing ''modus vivendi'' or operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the Chetnik movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the Nedić forces in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, then with the Italians in occupied Dalmatia and Montenegro, with some of the [[Ustaše]] forces in northern Bosnia, and, after the Italian capitulation, with the Germans directly.

The Chetniks were active in uprising against the Axis occupiers throughout 1941. Following the success of the Battle of Loznica, Mihailović's Chetniks were the first to liberate a European city from Axis control. Following this, German occupiers enacted [[Adolf Hitler]]'s formula for suppressing anti-[[Nazi]] resistance in Eastern Europe, a ratio of 100 hostages executed for every German soldier killed and 50 hostages executed for every soldier wounded. In October 1941, German soldiers conducted two mass [[murder]] campaigns against Serbian civilians in Kraljevo and Kragujevac, with a combined death toll reaching over 4,500 civilians, convincing Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović that killing German troops would only result in further unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of Serbs. As a result, he decided to scale back Chetnik guerrilla attacks and wait for an Allied landing in the Balkans. While Chetnik collaboration reached "extensive and systematic" proportions, the Chetniks themselves referred to their policy of collaboration as "using the enemy". Sabrina Ramet, a historian, has observed, "Both the Chetniks' political program and the extent of their collaboration have been amply, even voluminously, documented; it is more than a bit disappointing, thus, that people can still be found who believe that the Chetniks were doing anything besides attempting to realize a vision of an ethnically homogeneous Greater Serbian state, which they intended to advance, in the short run, by a policy of collaboration with the Axis forces".

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[[Category:Brutes]]

[[Category:European Villains]]

~~[[Category:Islamophobes]]~~

[[Category:Anti-Religious]]

[[Category:Anti-~~Catholic~~]]

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 |crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>Mass murder
 |goals = Establish a "Greater Serbia" (failed)<br>Wipe put the Bosnian Croats and Muslims (failed)
-|type of villains = Terrorists}}{{Quote|For king and fatherland; freedom or death.|The Chetnik motto.}}The '''Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army''', commonly known as the '''Chetniks''', also the '''Yugoslav Army in the Homeland''' and '''The Ravna Gora Movement''', was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement in occupied Yugoslavia led by [[Draža Mihailović]], which was anti-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] in its long-term goals, and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods. They also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with the occupying forces for almost all of the war. The Mihailović Chetniks were not a homogeneous movement. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by establishing ''modus vivendi'' or operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the Chetnik movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the Nedić forces in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, then with the Italians in occupied Dalmatia and Montenegro, with some of the [[Ustaše]] forces in northern Bosnia, and, after the Italian capitulation, with the Germans directly.
+|type of villains = Terrorists}}
+{{Quote|For king and fatherland; freedom or death.|The Chetnik motto.}}
+The '''Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army''', commonly known as the '''Chetniks''', also the '''Yugoslav Army in the Homeland''' and '''The Ravna Gora Movement''', was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement in occupied Yugoslavia led by [[Draža Mihailović]], which was anti-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] in its long-term goals, and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods. They also engaged in tactical or selective collaboration with the occupying forces for almost all of the war. The Mihailović Chetniks were not a homogeneous movement. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by establishing ''modus vivendi'' or operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the Chetnik movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the Nedić forces in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, then with the Italians in occupied Dalmatia and Montenegro, with some of the [[Ustaše]] forces in northern Bosnia, and, after the Italian capitulation, with the Germans directly.
 The Chetniks were active in uprising against the Axis occupiers throughout 1941. Following the success of the Battle of Loznica, Mihailović's Chetniks were the first to liberate a European city from Axis control. Following this, German occupiers enacted [[Adolf Hitler]]'s formula for suppressing anti-[[Nazi]] resistance in Eastern Europe, a ratio of 100 hostages executed for every German soldier killed and 50 hostages executed for every soldier wounded. In October 1941, German soldiers conducted two mass [[murder]] campaigns against Serbian civilians in Kraljevo and Kragujevac, with a combined death toll reaching over 4,500 civilians, convincing Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović that killing German troops would only result in further unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of Serbs. As a result, he decided to scale back Chetnik guerrilla attacks and wait for an Allied landing in the Balkans. While Chetnik collaboration reached "extensive and systematic" proportions, the Chetniks themselves referred to their policy of collaboration as "using the enemy". Sabrina Ramet, a historian, has observed, "Both the Chetniks' political program and the extent of their collaboration have been amply, even voluminously, documented; it is more than a bit disappointing, thus, that people can still be found who believe that the Chetniks were doing anything besides attempting to realize a vision of an ethnically homogeneous Greater Serbian state, which they intended to advance, in the short run, by a policy of collaboration with the Axis forces".
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 [[Category:Brutes]]
 [[Category:European Villains]]
-[[Category:Islamophobes]]
+[[Category:Anti-Religious]]
-[[Category:Anti-Catholic]]