Nie wieder Goli otok: Titoistische Umerziehungslager als Baustein jugoslawischer Zukunftsvisionen
Never Again Goli otok – Titoist Re-education Camps as a Building Block of Yugoslav Visions of the Future

Summary/Abstract: At the centre of this article lies the series “Ibeovci” by the (former) Yugoslav SKJ party newspaper Borba, which was published between January and September 1990. In the series, survivors of Yugoslav re-education camps recounted their experiences, as well as contemporary witnesses, political decision-makers and camp guards who orchestrated the political persecution and reeducation of so-called Ibeovci between 1948 and 1956. With this multi perspective approach, Borba initiated a collective negotiation of the past, with the aim of designing a liberal democratic future vision for a united Yugoslavia based on the collective memory of Goli otok while discursively distancing itself from the Tito regime. The series of articles makes clear how the public debate in the power vacuum of 1990 was shaped not only by national(ist) separatist voices, but also by the effort to develop an alternative narrative to the supposedly preordained disintegration of Yugoslavia.

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