ZAVNOBIH (STATE ANTI–FASCIST COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL LIBERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA): RECOGNITIONS AND DENIALS Cover Image

ZAVNOBiH: PRIZNANJE I PORICANJA
ZAVNOBIH (STATE ANTI–FASCIST COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL LIBERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA): RECOGNITIONS AND DENIALS

Author(s): Enes Durmišević
Subject(s): Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Period(s) of Nation Building, Politics and Identity
Published by: Rijaset Islamske zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini
Keywords: ZAVNOBIH; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bosnians; Muslims; Bosniaks;

Summary/Abstract: The author here analyses the conclusions of the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) as the war parliament of B&H. Decisions of this anti-fascistic body during the Second World War were principally normative, however, they have completely ignored one “shy nationality” (Bosnian) depriving the country of its civil identity. It was only logical to call the nation that lives in a country for centuries called Bosnia – Bosnian. ZAVNOBIH thus divided Bosnians, on ethnic criterion (...a land of Serbs, Croats and Muslims not of Bosnians!) and laid the foundations for anti-Bosnian tendencies of Serbian and Croatian nationalisms and their continuous interference into Bosnian inner affairs. This situation continued until the present day. Was comrade Stalin responsible for this and such decisions regarding the local national issues or was it something else?!

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 72-80
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian
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