Dimitri begins his multi-episode examination of the sinister forces, both domestic and foreign, who conspired to dismember and annihilate the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War in the early 1990s - and their largely unknown connections to the brutal civil wars that simultaneously dragged Liberia and Sierra Leone to an anarcho-colonial hell.

After some preliminary comments about why Yugoslavia deserves its own sidequest in Demon Forces, Dimitri discusses the first interwar incarnation of Yugoslavia as a (nominally) constitutional monarchy ruled by the bloody Serbian House of Karađorđević; the deep mythic legacy of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo and the geopolitical fault lines of the medieval Balkans…A Tale of Two Croats, Josip Broz Tito and the shadowy Ante Pavelić; the origins of the Ustaše and Croatian Catholic ultranationalism; Mussolini bankrolling Pavelić to further his imperial ambitions towards Dalmatia and Albania; secret terrorist training camps in Italy; the Macedonian terrorist organization IMRO; the 1934 assassination of Yugoslavia’s King Alexander Karađorđević and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseilles; the complicity of Mussolini and the Hungarian government in the plot; US government interest in the activities of Pavelić and his financial connections to the Croatian-American community…

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