Vardarska banovina: društveno-politička skica
Vardar Banovina: Socio-Political Sketch

Summary/Abstract: Easing of the repressive mechanism of King Alexander’s dictatorship, together with the bad economical perspective, widespread corruption and the retreat of the Serbia nationalist hardliners was adding to the strengthening of autonomist sentiment of the Macedonian population. The paradoxes of the Vardar Banovina in the 1930s were many – with significant hydro potentials it hardly produced any electricity; with the high percentage of urban population it hardly had cities; with many industrial companies it hardly had factories. As passive region, Vardar Banovina barely received any state subsidies and the debts of the central government were highest in that region. The ruling parties scored best in this region, although they were structurally underdeveloped. The greatest number of harshest penalties was pronounced at the territory of the Skopje district court, although both judges and jails were scarce. Four fifths of the population was illiterate. Such saldo was creating general discontent and insecurity, leading to the waves of public servants abandoning the province, leaving the space for the long neglected local population, whose separatism in turn was destabilizing the state institutions from within. Public manifestations of discontent with the regime and expressions of sympathies towards Yugoslav enemies by the beginning of 1941 were the sign of a definite collapse of policy of integral Yugoslavism at the Southeast.

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