ПОЛИТИЧКА АКТИВНОСТ РУСКЕ ЕМИГРАЦИЈЕ У ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ 1941–1945.
Political Activity of Russian Emigration in Yugoslavia 1941–1945

Summary/Abstract: As many as 12% of Russian participants in the April War was killed in action and 173 Russian émigrés, active and reserve offi cers of the Royal Yugoslav Army, ended up in POW camps and refused to collaborate with the Germans.The Germans set up the Bureau for Protection of Interests of Russian Emigrants in occupied Serbia which controlled lives of Russian refugees. As paragon of anticommunist idea, the Russian émigrés fond themselves in a diffi cult situation after the German attack on the USSR and the beginning of the partisan war. Using the spontaneous resistance of the emigrants to the partisan oppression in Serbia, the Germans set up the Russian Protection Corps, the Regiment „Warranger” and several smaller police units for fi ghting the partisans. Russian comic drawers, journalists and educators also played a role in the visual fi ght against the communist ideology and British infl uence. Personal ties through which the emigrants spread their political views also cannot be neglected. The Russian anti-communism, as a phenomenon of WWII, was strongly connected with the Yugoslav anticommunist movements at the end of the war (from fall 1944 to spring 1945). This participation of the Russian émigrés in the civil war in Yugoslavia was partly a consequence of the primary process of partial assimilation of the Russian refugees.

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