Tito's ethnic cleansing
Miro Prpic
From the above link
"In a forerunner of the horrors that have swept the Balkans since the
collapse of the Yugoslav federation, more than 350,000 Italians were
forced to abandon their homes between 1947 and 1954 to flee Tito's
ethnic cleansing, in which more than 20,000 people were systematically
executed."
To the Italians -
I heard that Istria and a great part of Dalmatia is already bought
by Italy. Are there any detalis about this purchase available?
Best regards
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Miro Prpic
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From: Report #15, Institute of Current World Affairs January 1994
Trieste and Piedmont:
Memories in Trieste have less to do with lands lost to a united Italy
than lands, such as Istria and some cities on the Dalmatian coast, that
Italy lost. These territories, remember, were Venetian from 1699
until the Habsburgs took over that republic in 1815. But whereas the
Veneto had joined Italy in 1866, the possessions on the eastern
Adriatic coast remained Austro-Hungarian. They were governed by a
sovereign Italian power again only after the Italian state turned on
the Habsburgs in 1915 and seized the lands at the end of the
First World War. But they were lost when the Yugoslav partisans
seized them during the Second World War. Only the city of Trieste
remains in Italian hands today.
Although Dalmatia and Istria had changed hands often, it was not until
the Yugoslav victory that their ethnic composition changed much. The
partisans expelled nearly 600,000 Italians from the coastal lands.
Many of them resettled in Trieste; many still hold Istria and Dalmatia
dear. If history is alive in Trieste today, it survives as a bitter
memory.
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