PROSLAVE I SLAVLJA U SRBIJI 1945. GODINE
Festivities and Celebrations in Serbia in 1945

Summary/Abstract: Liberation of Serbia in 1944/1945 brought an entirely new approach to festivities and celebrations of important Serbian history dates, and especially dates of the World War II history. The issue had got an ideological connotation according to which the basic generators of all developments were the Communist Party of Serbia, its AGITPROP Committee and mass organizations. The tendency for both state and religious holidays that had been celebrated before the World War II was to get them replaced by new holidays imposed by the revolutionary subject. The year of 1945 was a turning point concerning the Church holidays as well. Many of them were publicly supported for the last time in the onset of proletarian dictatorship system. This paper concerns both festivities and celebrations that were of a mass character in the course of 1945. Aspiration towards large membership was one of the very basic postulates of ideological concept of the new social-economic system project, and its realization was an apparition of the emerging monolithic system.

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