Original scientific paper
ARRESTS AND KILLING OF PEOPLE WHO WERE CONSIDERED POLITICALLY SUBVERSIVE TO THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED AUTHORITIES IN THE VILLAGES OF DONJI ANDRIJEVCI DISTRICT BEFORE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IN 1945
Mate Rupić
; The Croatian Memorial-Documentation Centre of the Homeland War, Zagreb, Croatia
Vladimir Geiger
orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-9817
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Branko Ostajmer
orcid.org/0000-0002-6112-8142
; Croatian Institute of History, Department for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Abstract
The elections for the Constituent Assembly in the fall of 1945 should have been decisive for the future of democracy and the state system of the post-war Yugoslavia. The events in Donji Andrijevci District near Slavonski Brod in early November 1945 when the members of the 12th Brigade of the Yugoslav Army Third Division arrested, took away, interrogated, tortured, killed and then threw the bodies of twenty “undesirable” persons, including three women, into the river Sava, most clearly depict complex and repressive atmosphere in which the elections occurred. In addition, the pre-election events in Donji Andrijevci District are the model example of the post-war Yugoslav communist authorities’ efforts, from the lowest to the highest rank, to conceal or to show in different light the repression and the undoubted crimes enforced against real or presumed adversaries.
Keywords
Elections for the Constituent Assembly 1945; Yugoslav Army; Department for the protection of the people; Communist repression; Slavonia; Donji Andrijevci
Hrčak ID:
122067
URI
Publication date:
26.5.2014.
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