Republic of Užice

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Republic of Užice
Užička republika
Ужичка република
1941
Flag of Užice
Flag
Anthem: None official
Drežnik
18 August 1941
• German ultimatum
10 September 1941
• Fall of Užice
24 September 1941
• Battle of Kadinjača
29 November 1941
1 December 1941
Preceded by
Succeeded by
German-occupied Serbia
German-occupied Serbia
Today part ofSerbia
  1. Partisans
    .
Monument to fallen partisans in battle on Kadinjača Hill.

The Republic of Užice (

occupied Yugoslavia, more specifically the western part of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.[a] The Republic was established by the Partisan resistance movement and its administrative center was in the town of Užice
.

Borders

The Republic of Užice comprised a large portion of western part of the occupied territory and had a population of more than 300,000

Zapadna Morava in the east, and the Raška region to the south.[citation needed
]

Different sources provide differing information about the size of the republic: according to some sources, it included 15,000[4] or 20,000[5] square kilometres.

History

The government was made of "people's councils" (odbori), and the partisans opened schools and published a newspaper, Borba (meaning "Struggle"). They even managed to run a postal system and around 145 km of railway and operated an ammunition factory from the vaults beneath the bank in Užice.[6]

In November 1941, in the

First anti-Partisan offensive, the German troops occupied this territory again, while the majority of Partisan forces escaped towards Bosnia, Sandžak and Montenegro, re-grouping at Foča in Bosnia.[7]

End

The leftist policy then pursued by

leftist errors) substantially contributed to the defeat of the partisans in the Republic of Užice.[8] Because of the pro-fascist Serbian propaganda which described the partisans as being led by foreigners,[9] the population of Serbia turned against the uprising and against the partisan insurgents. At the beginning of December 1941[10]
the partisans moved from Serbia to Bosnia (nominally part of the NDH) and joined their comrades who had already left Montenegro.[11]

In popular culture

The 1974 Yugoslav

The Republic of Užice
covers the events surrounding the existence of the Republic of Užice.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Official name of the occupied territory[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Hehn (1971), pp. 344–73
  2. ^ Pavlowitch (2002), p. 141
  3. .
  4. ^ a b Report on World Affairs. RWA. 1985-01-01.
  5. ^ Pshennikov, S.; Nat͡sionalʹnyĭ komitet istorikov Sovetskogo Soi͡uza (1985-01-01). The Resistance movement in Europe during the Second World War: 16th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Stuttgart, August 1985. "Social Sciences Today" Editorial Board, USSR Academy of Sciences.
  6. ^ Misha Glenny, The Balkans, 1999, p. 487
  7. ^ "Užice Republic 1941". National Museum Uzice. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  8. ^ Banac 1988, p. 81.
  9. ^ Petrović, Nenad (2009-02-09). "Politička Propaganda u Okupiranoj Srbiji: Milan Nedić, Velibor Jonić i Dimitrije Ljotić". www.crvenakritika.org (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  10. ^ Jelić, Ivan; Strugar, Novak (1985). War and revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945. Socialist Thought and Practice. p. 122. Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia and the leaderships of the national liberation movement withdrew from Serbia early in December 1941
  11. ^ Pavlowitch 2002, p. 147: "When repression burst the bubble of optimism, the popular mood in Serbia also turned against the insurgency and those who wanted to carry on with revolution... The partisan crossed into nominally NDH territory, where they joined up with their comrades who had left Montenegro. "

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Venceslav Glišić, Užička republika, Belgrade, 1986.
  • Jovan Radovanović, 67 dana Užičke republike (67 дана Ужичке републике), Belgrade, 1972. (1st edition, 1961.)
  • Boško N. Kostić, Za istoriju naših dana, Lille, France, 1949.

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