Stradanja u ratu - nastavak u miru
The Suffering Damages in the War - a Continuation in Peace.

Summary/Abstract: The archives and archive activity experienced a great terror and suffering in the four years lasting war (1992-95). Almost the same thing happened to the buildings - equipment and the processing technique, collections and staff. But the most difficult consequences of the wartime are met at the archival collections, a part of it was lost for good, the big quantity of collections in the registar's office has a poor chance ever to reach the archives. Unless the urgent measures in the storing, curing and a complete protection take place. The reasons of such an amount of suffering are many-sided, but they can be classified as an unparalleled brutality of the culprit of the suffering and the powerless people that suffered on one side, also the unbalanced standards proclaimed by the international community and the national - state system of cultural institutions protection and the practical implementation in the wartime, on the other side. There is an urgent need to make changes in order to get adapted to the new time. It is evident that we have to face the hard time, the consequences of the war destruction and the complete suffering, we will have no success without a real help by our friends abroad. We live at the time where anything nowhere can be excluded and certain what makes our attitude to the work more serious. The lesson we were given in the past war, the consequences make a good reason and an impetuous to our behavior, particularly that of the international community, never to happen to anybody and anywhere.

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