Partizanska propaganda u Srbiji 1941. u arhivskoj građi Vojnog muzeja
The Partisan Propaganda In Serbia In 1941 In The Archives Of The Serbian Military Museum

Summary/Abstract: The Partisan propaganda had three layers. The first layer represents a glorification and blinded idolatry towards the USSR. The second layer was depicted by favoring the social revolution, and it is only the third layer which shows that actually only one goal of the National Liberation War and the Party and Partisan governance was the liberation struggle. The archives of the Military Museum tell in favour of the above mentioned, so that there are mostly documents which corroborate the tendency of the Partisan and Party governance to an uncritical worshipping of the USSR. According to number, at the second place are archival documents which tell in favour of subversive aims of the National Liberation War in the context of insisting on a social revolution, and only at the third place there are archives in which the liberating character of the National Liberation War is glorified. A considerable part of the archival material tells of how, during the first war year, the leadership of the National Liberation War expressed a certain kind of respect towards the opponent displayed in the Ravna Gora Movement, and by this showing understanding for the fact that the Ravna Gora Movement was really very popular with the Serbian people whose support it was aimed at. The year 1941 was significant because of two reasons. Firstly, during that period the military units of the National Liberation War were being formed in a complete strategic isolation, without any backing of the allies and with a rather reserved support of the Comintern. Secondly, the military press as a means of political propaganda was diverse at that time, sprung out of the variety of concrete „local“ conditions and a different level of power and organization of the Partisan units, and as such it is interesting for observation.

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