Why didn't Stalin just send tanks on Yugoslavia when they rebelled again Soviet authority? You know...

Why didn't Stalin just send tanks on Yugoslavia when they rebelled again Soviet authority? You know, like Khrushchev and Brezhnev did with Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

He feared the Yugoslav warrior

Tito did most of the work liberating Yugoslavia so Stalin can’t threaten him on his home turf

Mountains. The Balkans are basically impenetrable. HoMo erectus mountain men still dwell in the dinaric alps.

That would be a flat out invasions. In Hungary and Czechoslovakia the existing governments of those countries asked the Warsaw Pact for aid, and got it.

Idk Stalin doesn’t seem like the type to have factored in the contribution of others in eliminating threats and insubordination.

Perhaps Stalin needed to show on the world stage a facade of unity amongst all communist nations

>The Balkans are basically impenetrable
Not really, Balkans isn't all mountains. It's more like valleys and plains being surrounded by hills and mountains. A conquering army can easily subdue flat parts (where 90% of towns and infrastructure is located) but then guerillas can bite them up the ass from surrounding hills. That's basically what happened to Germans in Yugoslavia

Tito partisans had many german divisions pinned down in ww2 and Yugoslavia was liberated by his own forces, the west would give him full support

It just wouldn’t be possible. The Yugoslav partisans proved their worth in World War II, and Yugoslavia is much more geographically uninviting to an invader than Hungary or Czechoslovakia.

>Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. (...) If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.
Tito in a communication to Stalin

Have you ever looked at a map?

so what? russian troops reached Kosovo in a few hours in 1999

Stalin didn't have nukes yet in 1948, meaning he'd be fucked if the US does something

>1999 is the same as 1945

Try using your brain and you'll figure out why that isn't comparable.

>comparing 1948 conditions with 1999 conditions
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Pic related is partisan gains before the Soviets even arrived

Fun fact: Yugoslav partisans were the only armed resistance that actually operated in the 3rd Reich itself. More specifically partisans detachments operated in Austrian Carinthia.

Portion of Slovenia was also directly annexed by Germany. Annexed as in no special occupation regimes, just plain annexed to Germany like Austria or Sudetenland.

> just plain annexed to Germany like Austria or Sudetenland.
Yes and also no, they were annexed on paper but were never integrated like Austria and the Sudetenland. Unlike those two areas Slovenia lacked a large German minority and armed resistance was present.

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