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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.59323/k.15.1.4

Post-war Communist Repression and Crusaders in the Neretva Area: The Activities of the Milas Group Through the Documents of the State Security Administration and the People’s Militia (2)

Blanka Matković ; Conventry, United Kingdom


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Abstract

In the first months after the end of military operations in Dalmatia, the organization of the first crusader groups began. There were groups founded near Metković at the end of 1944, and which often crosses over to Herzegovinian soil or maintained contacts with local associates. During this period, individual groups were broken up, and the showdown with the crusaders continued throughout 1945. By the beginning of 1946, the Neretva region was mostly "cleansed" of crusaders, and there were many persecutions of their associates known to the communist authorities and persecuted. However, it was then that a group of crusaders led by Ivan Milas from Čapljina, who also collaborated with the Široki Brijeg crusaders, occasionally began to transfer to the Metković area. Based on the documents, the constant activity of Milas’ group in the Metković area can be traced somewhere from the beginning of the summer of 1946 to the beginning of September when Milas was captured. His fate remains unknown.

Keywords

anti-communist resistance, crusaders, Herzegovina, Ivan Milas, Metković

Hrčak ID:

318996

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/318996

Publication date:

9.7.2024.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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