DJELOVANJE ANKETNE KOMISIJE 1945. U ZAGREBU - “UTVRĐIVANJE ZLOČINA KULTURNOM SARADNJOM SA NEPRIJATELJEM”
THE WORKINGS OF THE SURVEY COMMISSION IN ZAGREB IN 1945: “ESTABLISHING THE FACT OF CRIMINAL COLLABORATION WITH THE ENEMY IN CULTURAL MATTERS”

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the issue of communist repression during 1945. The repressiveness of the totalitarian communist system became manifest in many spheres of public, cultural and political life. The primary concern of every communist regime, including the Yugoslavian, is the elimination of political opponents. For this reason, in Croatia, following the Second World War, advocates of democracy among the middle-classes and the intellectuals were targeted. The Survey Commission was the organization that was given the responsibility of “establishing the fact of criminal collaboration with the enemy in cultural matters.” In the area of Zagreb alone, which this article studies, 176 persons were pronounced criminals for “cultural collaboration with the enemy,” 54 complaints were lodged with the public prosecutor for insulting the honour of the nation, and hundreds of “questionnaires” were filled out. These types of activities on the part of the Survey Commission allowed the Yugoslav communist authorities to carry out various forms of repression (including show trials, loss of occupation, jail sentences and even execution).

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