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Operation Rösselsprung (1944) - Wikipedia
Operation Rösselsprung (German: Unternehmen Rösselsprung, lit. 'Knight's move') was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationist forces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Bosnian town of Drvar in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. It was launched 25 May 1944, with the goal of capturing or killing Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito and destroying the headquarters, support facilities and co-located Allied military missions.
If it succeeded in killing Tito, how does it change political timelines and outcomes in Yugoslavia related to the Partisans political triumphs over collaborators, Royalists and Chetniks, Yugoslav, presumably Communist, policy toward Greece and Trieste, and Soviet-Yugoslavia relations?
Presuming a Communist Yugoslavia, would Stalin get irritated with its leaders and mandate a change in leadership for them? Would they be able to resist without Tito? If there is no Soviet-Yugoslav tension, or if the USSR "disciplines" Yugoslavia easily, getting it to do its bidding and oust leaders Moscow disapproves of, what knock-on effects does this have for relations with other Communist leaders and Parties throughout the globe, like China's Party and the West European parties?