KULTURNA AKTIVNOST U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI U TOKU NARODNOOSLOBODILAČKOG RATA
CULTURAL ACTIVITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA DURING THE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR

Summary/Abstract: Parallelly with the organization of the armed rebellion, with its high and low Tides, cultural activities grew ever stronger and became an indispensible need of people, military units and everywhere else on the liberated territory. With the first rebel’s rifle, so to speak, emerged the first spontaneous initiatives on the plain of cultural activities which later assumed stronger and more organized forms. Here we have in mind first of all written word, which in the form of placards, shapirographed radio news, informative bulletins, brochoures, those first predecessors of the very widespread and well organized partisan press, it emenrged and grew up together with the first partisan regements, battalions and brigades. The partisan press disseminated turth about our liberation struggle and about aha situation on the battlefields of the world and played an important role in the political mobili zation of the masses. Today we do not know how many those materials there wefe, when and where they were published, by what units and on what tarrains, since those written texts were soon destroyed and in a limited number published, owing to primitive techniques in that time a«d the rapid dynamics of the armed rebellion and the revolution. What we certainly do know is that there were many of those materials and that very few of them survived the whirlwinds of the revolution. Among those first written texts certainly »Gerilac« (the Guerilla fighter) occupies a distinguished place, being the first partisan newspaper in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It appeared immediately with our first armed actions in Bosanska Krajina, in those early August days 1941 and throughout Us publication it was not only an excellent informative but also propagandistic paper.

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