Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment

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Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment

The Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment (

Serbo-Croatian: Sisački narodnooslobodilački partizanski odred), also known as the 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment (1. Sisački partizanski odred), was the first Partisan armed anti-fascist resistance unit formed in occupied Yugoslavia following the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers in April 1941.[1]

It was formed by the outlawed

Vladimir Janjić-Capo
.

This event marked the start of armed

anti-fascist resistance in occupied Yugoslavia. In modern Croatia, 22 June is commemorated as a public holiday — the Anti-Fascist Struggle Day
.

The detachment began resistance activities the day after its creation;[2] launching sabotage and diversionary attacks on nearby railway lines, destroying telegraph poles, attacking municipal buildings in surrounding villages, seizing arms and ammunition and creating a Communist propaganda network in Sisak and nearby villages.[2][3]

The uprising of the Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment was largely ignored in official Yugoslav historiography that instead claimed that the first uprising in Yugoslavia was the one launched two weeks later in Serbia, led by Tito.[4] In the post-war Socialist Republic of Croatia, the date of the Srb uprising (27 July) was declared a public holiday, known as the "Day of the Uprising of the People of Croatia", also sidelining the uprising of the Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment.[5]

Janko Bobetko, who 50 years later became one of the most prominent Croatian generals in Croatian War of Independence, joined the unit in July 1941.[6]

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