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The uniting force of the anti-fascist partisans on the territory was People's Liberation Army and Partisan detachments of Yugoslavia (NOV i POJ; Narodnooslobodilacka vojska i partizanski odredi Jugoslavije) under the command of Josip Broz (who went by the nom de guerre of Tito) and the Yugoslav Communist Party.

The Partisans staged a wide-spread guerrilla campaign and organized people's committee s to act as civilian governments in areas which they liberated.

Smaller-scale partisan units such as the TIGR of the Primorje Slovenes were also integrated in the NLA eventually. The ChetniksChetniks ( Serbian Cetnici, ) were an organization of Yugoslavs (mostly Serbs) who supported the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and formed a notable resistance force during World War II. The name is derived from the Serbian word ceta which means "company" (of abou, who also led a guerilla war on the Yugoslav territory, actually fought against the Partisans during most of the war.

The Partisans had the support of the AlliesIn general, allies are people or groups that have joined an alliance and are working together to achieve some common purpose. In general English usage, those who share a common goal and whose work toward that goal is complementary may be viewed as allies, both the western ones and the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 whose Red ArmyThis article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. See Red Army Faction for the German militant group; Japanese Red Army for the Japanese militant group; and People's Liberation Army for the Chinese Red Army. Red Army and RKKA are abbreviations f facilitated the liberation. However, the amount of organization among the NOVJ and the favorable position of Yugoslavia in Europe resulted in the country being one of the few Axis-occupied European countries to mostly liberate itself and not be encumbered by foreign army presence after the end of the war.

1 See also

• History of YugoslaviaThis is the history of all three Yugoslav states. For history of the region before 1918, see history of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Also see history of Europe and list of extinct countries, empires, etc.
• Opposing warring parties and factions:
  • Nazi GermanyNazi Germany or the Third Reich commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933 1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of National Socialism with Adolf Hitler as dictator. The term Nazi is a short form of the German
  • Fascist Italy
  • UstašeThe UstaSe (often spelled Ustashe in English; singular UstaSa or Ustasha was a Croatian right-wing organisation put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers in 1941. They pursued nazi/ fascist policies and were subsequently expelle
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