Stevan Moljević
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Central National Committee of Yugoslavia during World War II |
Stevan Moljević (6 January 1888 – 15 November 1959) was a
After the war, Moljević was sentenced to 20 years for war crimes and treason. He died in prison in 1959.
Early life
Stevan Moljević was born to Jovan and Mitra Moljević (née Babić) on 6 January 1888 in Rudo, Austria-Hungary.[1] He finished primary school in the town and later joined Young Bosnia, a revolutionary movement which aimed to unite all South Slavs into one common state. He was arrested by Austro-Hungarian authorities in 1910 after a member of Young Bosnia attempted to assassinate Marijan Varešanin, the region's governor. In 1915, Moljević was arrested and charged with treason by Austro-Hungarian authorities. He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to ten years of hard labour. He was released from prison after Austria-Hungary's collapse in 1918, and was later awarded the French Legion of Honour and Serbian Order of St. Sava.[2]
Moljević obtained a law degree at the University of Zagreb before moving to Banja Luka, where he worked as an attorney prior to the outbreak of World War II.[1] He was also the head of the local branch of the Serbian Cultural Club.[3] Moljević was married and had two children.[1]
World War II
Moljević left Banja Luka on 10 April 1941, the day that the
In August 1941,
Moljević wrote to Vasić in December 1941 and outlined his plan for the cleansing of Yugoslavia of all non-Serbian elements by Serbian refugees. He stated that Serbs should take control of "all strategic points" in Yugoslavia and claimed that a large Serbian state was what Serbs had been fighting for since the time of
In 1943, Moljević usurped Vasić as head of the Central National Committee.[19] John R. Lampe pointed to significant details such as that the Central National Committee had secondary status while Moljević did not rise to prominence in this committee until 1943, which undercut the perception about Moljević's Homogeneous Serbia being the centerpiece of coherent set of Chetnik war objectives.[19]
He attended the
Capture, imprisonment and death
Moljević was arrested by the
Bibliography
In 2019 a group of historians published a book authored by Moljević, based on his handwritten scripts, titled "Ravna Gora u svetlu i magli" (English: Ravna Gora in light and fog). The scripts were published together with other documents he authored earlier. Moljević secretly wrote these scripts on a toilet paper during his imprisonment. They remained hidden in the wall, under the wooden window, and kept in the archives after they have been found.[25]
Notes
- ^ a b c Mihailović 1946, p. 13.
- ^ a b 058.ba & 13 March 2014.
- ^ a b Tomasevich 1975, p. 167.
- ^ Cohen 1996, p. 44.
- ^ a b Judah 2000, pp. 121–122.
- ^ Ramet 2006, p. 145.
- ^ Cigar 1996, p. 53.
- ^ Velikonja 2003, p. 167.
- ^ Malcolm 1994, p. 178.
- ^ Judah 2000, p. 122.
- ^ Tomasevich 1975, p. 169.
- ^ a b Tomasevich 1975, pp. 167–171.
- ^ Tomasevich 1975, p. 170.
- ^ a b Tomasevich 1975, p. 126.
- ^ Redžić 2005, p. 132.
- ^ Malcolm 1994, pp. 178–179.
- ^ (Jelić-Butić 1986, p. 18):"Moljevic je dosao u Mihailovicev stab u svibnju 1942, iz Crne Gore, gdje se sklonio nakon kapitulacije."
- ^ Prilozi. Institut za istoriju. 2001. p. 188.
Po dolasku u Štab Četničke Vrhovne komande Jugoslovenske vojske u otadžbini (VK JVUO) početkom maja 1942. on je uključen u tzv. civilni (politički) dio VK JVUO, u kome su se već nalazili Dragiša Vasić i dr. Mladen Žujović.
- ^ a b Lampe 2000, p. 206.
- ^ Redžić 2005, p. 160.
- ^ Redžić 2005, p. 164.
- ^ a b Mihailović 1946, p. 539.
- ^ Tomasevich 1975, p. 461.
- ^ Markovich 2012, pp. 298–299.
- ^ Žikić, Miloš. "Stevan Moljević, Ravna gora u svetlu i magli, priredili prof. dr Momčilo Pavlović i dr Bojan B. Dimitrijević, Beograd, Institut za savremenu istoriju, Društvo istoričara Srbije "Stojan Novaković", Arhiv Srbije, 2019" (PDF). Istorija 20 veka. 1/2020: 283–284. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
References
- "Ruđani Marko Spahić i Stevan Moljević". 058.ba (in Serbian). 13 March 2014.
- Cigar, Norman (1996). "The Serbo-Croatian War, 1991". In Meštrović, Stjepan G. (ed.). Genocide After Emotion: The Post-Emotional Balkan War. ISBN 0-415-12294-5.
- ISBN 978-0-89096-760-7.
- Jelić-Butić, Fikreta (1986). Četnici u Hrvatskoj, 1941-1945. Globus. ISBN 9788634300109.
- ISBN 978-0-300-08507-5.
- Lampe, John R. (28 March 2000). Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77401-7.
- ISBN 978-0-8147-5520-4.
- Markovich, Slobodan G. (2012). "Dr. Djura Djurovic: A Lifelong Opponent of Yugoslav Communist Totalitarianism". Balcanica (43). .
- Mihailović, Draža (1946). The Trial of Dragoljub–Draža Mihailović. Belgrade: Documentary Publications.
- Ramet, Sabrina P. (2006). The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. ISBN 978-0-253-34656-8.
- ISBN 978-0-7146-5625-0.
- ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9.
- Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. ISBN 978-0-8047-3615-2.
- Velikonja, Mitja (2003). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. ISBN 978-1-58544-226-3.