ПОЧЕТАК ГРАЂАНСКОГ РАТА У ЧАЧАНСКОМ КРАЈУ 1941
DISTRUST, CONFUSION, CRUELTY - THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE REGION OF CACAK

Summary/Abstract: The most horrible heritage of the civil war in Serbia, as well as in the region of Cacak, is the hatred arisen after bloody clashes between feuded soldiers and political movements. The battle for the country liberation quickly slid into the civil war. The hatred that broke out, brought about many victims that were often being killed in a bloody and sadistic way. A war is impossible to be lead without strong negative feelings towards the enemy and many dormant dark depths of the evil in a man were aroused in the chaotic turmoil of the death and the destruction. Communists’ class radicalism in advance excluded moral responsibility for violence, the means for creating the society of truth and the eternal justice. Winners in the civil war, communists, for decades insisted on the misdeeds that had been done by the other side, using their victims as the proof of sufferings and righteousness of the fight they had lead. The aim was to besmirch the rival anti-fascistic organization. All the misdeeds, done by various irregular groups called „chetniks”, were believed to have been the work of colonel Mihailovic’s forces. With the crash of the communism, partisans’ misdeeds also began to come to light. The hatred gained new incentives, the „deadly kolo”130 continued its dance with the constant threat for the living to become part of it. Without understanding the „rhythm of misdeeds” in the region of Cacak in 1941, the year of the rebellion, it is impossible to understand many events that happened in further phases of occupation that often came down to the personal battle or vengeance.

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