ISKORJENJIVANJE RELIGIOZNIH UVJERENJA I AKTIVNOSTI UNUTAR ČLANSTVA KPJ/SKJ OD 1945. DO 1958. GODINE
ERADICATION OF RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AND ACTIVITIES AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY/LEAGUE OF COMMUNIST OF YUGOSLAVIA FROM 1945 TO 1958

Summary/Abstract: The leadership of CPY/LCY held a negative opinion of all kinds of religious beliefs and activities and, therefore, sought from its members to fight actively against all forms of backwardness, religion included. For the Yugoslav communists, religious beliefs represented a backward and unscientific view of the world, which was to be abandoned as soon as possible by every individual. All the Party members were expected to take the lead in the fight against the beliefs that were deemed as backward and historically outdated. The Communist Party demanded from its members to obediently implement atheistic policy in their everyday life. All those members who exercised any religious ceremonies were excluded from the Party membership. The Yugoslav communists began a particularly aggressive campaign against religious inclinations of its members especially in early 1950s. In 1952, at the 6th Congress of the League of Communists, the Statute adopted by the participants decided that the membership in the League of Communists was incompatible with exercising any sort of religious worship and attendance at religious gatherings. The Party ideologues believed that the Marxist worldview was incompatible with any religious beliefs. In additional to the reasons motivated by foreign policy considerations, this stricter party politics vis à vis religious views and activities of members of the Communist Party /League of Communist was caused by the Party’s failed attempts to limit the impact of religion on its members.

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