ODUZIMANJE IMOVINE SRPSKE PRAVOSLAVNE CRKVE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI (1945.-1961.)
THE SEIZURE OF PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (1945-1961)

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War the communist government in Yugoslavia (and Bosnia and Herzegovina) initiated the implementation of extensive changes of the economical system, defining and building a new state and social order. The liquidation of private property, including the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church, was systematically executed in the period between 1945 and 1960. During the said timeframe the communist authorities, through a number of laws, decrees and decisions, without any compensation or only with unfulfilled promises of reimbursement, conducted the appropriation of a large portion of the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church. From 1945 to 1960 the state repossessed under various grounds 10.799 or 81,7% decares (dunums) of land and 177 or 78,6% buildings. Against the repossession of its estate the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina lodged numerous complaints to the authorities in charge. The number of complaints significantly increased after the law on the nationalisation of lease buildings and construction sites was passed. From the complete number of lodged complaints of this religious community until November 1961, there was a positive outcome in 29 or 55,7% cases, and a negative outcome in 23 or 44,3% of cases.

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