Methods of Communists Resistance Combat in Belgrade during July 1941 Cover Image

Методи борбе КПЈ у Београду током јула 1941. године
Methods of Communists Resistance Combat in Belgrade during July 1941

Author(s): Rade Ristanović
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: WWII, Serbia; Belgrade; Communist Party of Yugoslavia; Resistance; communist illegals; armed actions; occupier; collaborationists

Summary/Abstract: At the beggining of July of 1941 the Central Comittee of Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) gave orders and prepared for armed combat with occupiers and collaborationists on the territory of occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Belgrade was the center from which CPY led this combat. In this article we are reconstructing the methods that were used by Belgrade communists in the goal of implementing above mentioned orders. According to the data we have collected from the reports of collaborationists and occupiers, communist resistance in Belgrade had 33 actions in July, from which: 9 actions included burning occupiers and collaborationists press, 10 attacks on vehicles, 5 attacks on occupiers objects, 2 attacks on objects of citizens and 7 actions of cuting telecommunication lines. Circumstances like lack of personnel and material resources needed for army combat in urban areas, but also strength of occupiers and collaborationists were impassable obstacle for CPY to make „a battle fortress” of Belgrade.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 143-171
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Serbian