"Лаушманова акција". Сарадња Југославије и чехословачког емигранта Бохумила Лаушмана 1950-1953
"Lausman’s Action". The Cooperation between Yugoslavia and the Czechoslovak Emigree Bohumil Lausman 1950–1953

Summary/Abstract: During the years of conflict caused by the Resolution of the Informbureau both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia cooperated with emigrants from the oposite state within the framework of inimical policy against one another. The most important Czechoslovak emigrant with whome Yugoslavia cooperateed was Bohumil Lausman, former chairman of the Social-Democratic Party and vice-chairman of the government. After fleeing the country in the night of December 31, 1949/Janaury 1, 1950 and a sojourn in West Germany, Lausman came to Yugoslavia and appeared in public at the grand stand during the May Day celebration in Belgrade in 1951. Talks between him and the Yugoslav government on cooperation had already started several months earlier. On the Yugoslav side, contacts with Lausman were kept by Vladimir Dedijer, Milica Saric and Slavko Zore, and the leadership of the Party and the State was acquainted with the whole action. During 1951, 1952 and the first half of 1953 Lausman lived in Yugoslavia and Austria. He proposed joint intelligence and propaganda activities to Yugoslavia, asked for a radio station to be put at the disposal of Czechoslovak emigres, starting of a journal in the Yugoslav territory, dreamed of forming a group at the border with Czechoslovakia and of smuggling the illegal paper into the country. The Yugoslav authorities enabled him to stay in Yugoslavia, to tour the places where members of the Czech and Slovak minorities lived, as well as to write for Yugoslav newspapers. Stalin's death and the beginning of normalization of the relations between Yugoslavia and USSR changed the role emigrants from East European countries played in Yugoslav foreign policy and caused the cooperation with them to be subordinated to the needs of normalization of relations with their respective countries. The kidnapping of Lausman by the Czechoslovak Security Service in late 1953, his transfer to Czechoslovakia where he was sentenced and confined, marked the definite end of his cooperation with Yugoslavia.

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