Partizani i četnici - srpski fatum
Partizans and Chetniks - the Serbian fate

Summary/Abstract: The author writes about one of the most tragic divisions in the Serbian people - that into partizans and chetniks, the civil and the communist option, and, with sound arguments, shows that this division is not yet overcome. The author shows that the misrepresentation of Draža Mihailović and chetniks as traitors and criminals is still at hand. Analysing the text published in the Danas paper, as well as attitudes of Todor Kuljić, Desimir Tošić, Dobrica Ćosić, Miloš Mišović and other authors, Ivanović concludes that even today, when it comes to the civil war in Serbia and the activities of the chetnik movement, the communist option is predominant. The author shows that the political option represented by the chetniks was, as opposed to the communist one, pro-European and democratic, therefore, just as the one the present democratic Serbia is fighting for. The main message of the text is that without reassessment and reevaluation of the past there can be no national reconciliation, and without it, there can be no true democracy in Serbia.

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