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THE BRIJUNI PLENARY: THE ECHO OF THE FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (CK) OF THE UNION OF COMMUNISTS OF YUGOSLAVIA (SKJ)
Katarina Spehnjak
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The article presents a public echo of the 1966 party conference which dealt with the misuses of the State Security Services (SDS). The issue is described in four parts: the Brijuni Plenary as a subject of investigation in domestic and foreign literature; chronology of events; discussions in political organizations and newspapers; the dossiers - police documentation on citizens.
In the literature, the political fall of Aleksandar Ranković, the founder and for a long time leading figure of that agency, is considered as a political struggle for power or the outcome of the confrontation between "reformist" and "conservative" stream in the Union of the SKJ.
The chronology deals with the time between the "Plenary", July 1 - 2, 1966 and the adoption by the Federal Parliament of Yugoslavia of the new law of internal affairs by the end of the same year. In December of that year Josip Broz Tito issued a clemency to S. Ranković and fifteen other highest officials of that agency.
The discussion in the political organizations and newspapers showed that political activists, and "simple" people as well, think that the responsibility for the misuses lie not only on individuals but on the way the organization was structured and on the unlimited power it had. The party leadership tried to subdue those criticisms, because they did not want to be left without the most valuable partner in the system of power. The public was also made aware of a great number of private dossiers - the police documentation on citizens which came into existence in the preceding twenty years. The most diligent was the SDS in Croatia, which amassed one million tree hundred thousand such dossiers.
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Hrčak ID:
212232
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Datum izdavanja:
1.1.2000.
Posjeta: 1.691 *