Baština (Jan 2015)
A separate peace: New views
Abstract
The Separate Proffer of the Peace offered to Serbia by the Central Powers in 1915 with the Serbian political and military leadership had no chance to be realised because they were legally, politically and morally tied to the Entente, especially for Russia. The question is whether the acceptance of a Separate Peace in 1915 fared better for Serbia such as Romania, which entered the war in August 1916, and at the Versailles conference it spread largely at the expense of Hungary and Russia or comparing with Italy. Regarding that issue, Serbia would not have experienced Calvary through Albania and the suffering of the population in occupied Serbia, and would not have lost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Serbs. Serbia chose a Yugoslav program as a way to unite all Serbs in one state. In the end, Serbia was on the winning side, but at what cost and with what further consequences? The Separate Peace might have been accepted as a tactical movement to prevent the suffering of the people, but the question is what would then happen to the unification of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. So, the idea of the Separate Peace Proffer between Serbia and the Central Powers in 1915, remained only as a historical archive, with the help of these ideas it can only be viewed consequences of fate of the Serbian people.
