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Persecutions and Sufferings of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Poreč and Pula (1945 – 1947)
Stipan Trogrlić
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar – Područni centar Pula
Sažetak
The Istrian region of the zone B after the war became a part of the newly formed Yugoslavia. The civil authority was constituted by the National Liberation Committees, on the level of district, city and villages. There was also a regional National Liberation Committee for Istria. The entire society was controlled by the omnipotent Communist Party, with the help of the omnipresent secret police (OZNA), which afterwards changed the name in UDBA (State Security Administration).
During the period that preceded the peace treaty with Italy, the Military administration of the Yugoslav army had to supervise the implementation of the former i.e. Italian Laws. But, the new administration was implementing new communist revolutionary laws, which started the persecution of the Catholic Church in Istria.
All the persecutions and sufferings of the Church in Istria were the consequence of the communist model of government, which nurtured itself with the help of imaginary internal and external enemies, always in a need for an absolute control over the entire social life. The Catholic Church in Istria was by itself an ‘enemy’ from within, subordinated to the Vatican - the external enemy. Since it was difficult to monitor it with ordinary methods, repression and persecutions were the only way to control the Church.
Ključne riječi
Istria; Catholic Church; „the government of the people“; persecutions; sufferings
Hrčak ID:
127849
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Datum izdavanja:
19.9.2014.
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