Државна безбедност о српским писцима националистима крајем шездесетих и почетком седамдесетих година XX века
State Security Regarding Serbian Nationalist Writers in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Summary/Abstract: With the escalation of inter-ethnic tension in Yugoslavia in the late 1960s, a group of Serbian writers more and more frequently stoodup against the policy of the League of Communists, expressing disagreement with their official policy regardingthe national question. These were primarilythe writers who signed the "Proposal for Consideration" on 19 March1967: Antonije Isaković, Borislav Mihailović Mihiz, Matija Bećković, Brana Crnčević, Duško Radović, and Dobrica Ćosić, who did not sign the document. They thought that the League of Communists lost the battle regarding the national question, disagreed with the opinion of the League of Communists of Serbia that Serbia should not interfere with the national question ofother republics or with the position of Serbs outside Serbia. They also opposed the creation of the Montenegrin nation and constitutional changes which putSerbia at a disadvantage to other republics. Judgingtheir attitudes as nationalistic and chauvinistic, the State Security placed them into the category of internal “enemies,” thus making them subject to constant surveillance, tapping, and monitoring. The State Securityassociated them with Aleksandar Ranković and his supporters, especially during the student demonstrations of 1968 when they were even marked as organizers.

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