Original scientific paper
ACTIVITIES OF THE COMINFORM RESOLUTION FOLLOWERS IN CROATIA, 1948-1953
Berislav Jandrić
; Institute of Contemporary History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the struggle for power between the KPJ - the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the supporters of the Svesavezna komunistička partija (Bolsheviks) - SKP(B) (Stalin), i.e. the supporters of the Cominform Resolution, both sides were merciless. The Cominform supporters were not just ordinary citizens and Party members. Many of them held high offices in the Party and the State. They were organized in special groups and had a clear objective - to overthrow the existing social system and Tito, and a desire - to return under the aegis of Stalin and the Soviet Union. Some of the Party members, for years taught to believe without reserve in the great »Hazjajin« and his infallibility and be loyal to him, considered the establishment and survival of socialism without help from the USSR impossible. They sided with Stalin and the Cominform Resolution, upon which the Party and the State answered with severe repressive measures. In the conflict between two leading and charismatic personalities, Stalin, the defender of communist hegemony and incumbent of the politics of a great power, and Tito, representing a possibility of a separate Yugoslav course, Tito and his 'No' - to Stalin and to other countries of the eastern bloc, won. The groups 'Marega', 'Malešević', 'Berger-Grubišić', 'Balvan', 'Bendeković', 'Nina', 'Žigić- Opačić' etc. all had different immediate political aims, from implementation of the tenets of the Cominform Resolution to especially national or even nationalistic and local interests. From the above mentioned groups, a specially significant place belongs to the group 'Žigić-Brkić'Opačić', which operated within the Party top and the Government of the National Republic of Croatia, and declared itself protector of Serbian interests in Croatia. Along with the normalization of the relationship between Yugoslavia and the USSR, the activities of Cominform supporters gradually lost all importance.
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212341
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Publication date:
5.12.1994.
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