Iza maske “Bratstva i jedinstva”: slučaj Ibrahima Avdića, partizana i komuniste iz Gračanice, u prvim poratnim godinama
The Case of Ibrahim Avdić, a Partisan and Communist from Gračanica, in the Early Post-War Years

Summary/Abstract: Ibrahim Avdić from Gračanica, a decorated partisan fighter and war veteran, a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was sent for vocational training and education to the military Invalid Home in Novi Sad after the end of the war. There, he experienced incidents of discrimination based on his nationality, even enduring physical attacks. Instead of protecting him and combating nationalism and chauvinism within their ranks, the local party leadership stood up for the troublemakers, abruptly excluding Avdić from the Communist Party, into which he had been admitted in 1944 as a fighter of the partisan 2nd Krajina Brigade. The appeal filed by Ibrahim later, along with the statement of his comrade, Huso Halilović, testifies that “brotherhood and unity” had not yet taken root even among the members of the ruling - and only political organization, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. This paper is based on several documents preserved among the archival materials of the former County Committee of the Communist Party of Gračanica, which is now kept in the Archives of the Tuzla Canton.

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