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  • Who liberated Belgrade – and who cares who liberated Belgrade?

    Who liberated Belgrade – and who cares who liberated Belgrade?

    By Helena Trenkić (@helenakic) In 1948 Tito’s Yugoslavia was expelled from the alliance of Marxist-Leninist parties known as Cominform. In the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split, the narrative of who liberated Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War – and in particular who liberated the capital, Belgrade – became hotly-contested history.