| According to the Tito-Tolbuhin agreement signed on November 15th, 1944 in Belgrade, the NLMY received two air divisions and one air base with technical equipment, weapons and manpower from the Soviet side. From then until the end of the war, 350 Soviet aircraft were given to the Supreme Headquarters of the NLMY35. It is evident that these air-craft and war materials received from Moscow after the partisans entrance to Belgrade were used by the Yugoslav Army for the purpose of taking control over the whole territory of Yugoslavia as well as for entering Trieste on May 1, 1945. In April 1945 with Soviet support, forty two storming (IL-2) and eleven hunting (Jak-3) air divisions were formed and included into Yugoslav Army36. During 1944 and the first five months of 1945 the total Soviet support for the NLMY (from January 1st, 1945 transformed into the Yugoslav Army) was: 96,515 rifles; 20,528 pistols; 68,423 machine guns and submachine guns; 3,797 anti-tank’s rifles; 3,364 mortars; 170 anti-tank’s guns; 895 field’s guns; 65 tanks; 491 airplanes and 1,329 radio stations37. After the end of the war all Soviet aircraft from the Bari military base were given to the Yugoslav Army which become the forth largest army in Europe in manpower and military equipment. The total Soviet air support of Tito’s partisans during the whole war came to 491 aircrafts.
Soviet help in training Tito’s army was also important. From autumn 1944 to February 1945, 107 Yugoslav pilots and 1104 technicians were trained in the USSR. In April 1945 3,123 members of Tito’s Yugoslav Army were in Soviet military schools. The total number of Yugoslav pilots and technicians trained in Soviet schools during the war was 4,51638.
Soviet medical support sent to the NLMY was variegated and voluminous. It comprised medical material, medicaments and hospitals. Soviet doctors gave help to approximately 11,000 soldiers of the NLMY including those soldiers who were hospitalised in Bari39. In Yugoslavia seven Soviet mobile and four surgical field hospitals were operating during the whole war40.
The first financial contract between the Yugoslav partisans and the Soviet government was signed in Moscow in May 1944. Stalin allowed financial support of $10,000,000. In June 1944, Tito’s General Velimir Terzię signed a new financial contract, also in Moscow. It was an interest free loan of $2,000,000 and 1,000 roubles. This financial aid was given by Moscow in order to help the NLMY to develop and organise its own legations, missions and to make a new Yugoslav currency. In December 1944 the Soviet Union delivered three billion new Yugoslav dinar. On January 1st, 1945 the NLMY had $1,233,480 and 300,000 roubles on its own account in Moscow’s “Gosbank”41.
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35 Советские вооруженные силы в борбе за освобождение народов Югославии. Москва, 1960. С. 49.
36 Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o Narodnooslobodilačkom ratu naroda Jugoslavije. Vojno-istorijski institut jugoslovenske armije. Beograd, 1967. Т. X/2, s. 412.
37 V. Strugar. Jugoslavija 1941–1945. Beograd, 1969. S. 311.
38 A. Антосяк (редактор). Документй о советско-югославском боевом содружестве в годы второй мировой войны // Военно-исторический журнал. Москва, 1978, Но. V, c. 71.
39 Советские вооруженные силы в борбе за освобождение народов Югославии. Москва, 1960. С. 50; S. L. Spasić. 1976. Jugoslovensko-sovjetske medicinske veze u Narodnooslobodilackom ratu // Acta historica medicinae pharmaciae, veterine. Beograd, 1976. T. XVI–1, s. 59.
40 А. Н. Ратников. В борбе с фашизмом, о совместных боевых действиях, советских и югославских войск в годы второй мировой войны. Mосква, 1974. С. 105.
41 Arhiv Centralnog Komiteta Komunističke Partije Jugoslavije. Jugoslovenske vojne misije u Sovjetskom Savezu. Beograd, 1944. S. 371–375. |
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