Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia

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First meeting of the AVNOJ on 26./27. November 1942 in Bihać

The Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian Antifašističko v (ij) ECE narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije , shortly AVNOJ , Slovenian Antifašistični svet narodne osvoboditve Jugoslavije ) was the legislative and executive management committee in Yugoslavia during the Second World War in the liberation struggle against the Italian and German occupiers involved groups and organizations. The state legitimacy of the council and thus the validity of its decrees were not generally recognized internationally.

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The AVNOJ was established on Tito's call on 26 November 1942 at the Bosnian Bihac as a self-proclaimed war Parliament and temporary war government. Tito explained the necessity with the fact that on the territory of Yugoslavia, apart from the people 's liberation committees, there was no violence accepted by the people's liberation movement. A presidium with a president, six deputy presidents, two secretaries and at least 40 members should be elected from the group of participants. This presidium should have legislative and executive power between the meetings of the full council.

Up to the third and final meeting of the General Council from August 7th to 10th, 1945 in Belgrade , the Presidium passed a series of orders, decrees and notices, the so-called AVNOJ resolutions (correct resolutions of the AVNOJ Presidium ).

Tito (left) at the second AVNOJ meeting in Jajce
The building in Jajce where the second AVNOJ meeting took place

During the second general assembly with 142 delegates in Jajce from November 21 to 29, 1943 , the basic framework for the future federal Yugoslav state was laid, in which Muslims , Croats , Macedonians , Montenegrins , Serbs and Slovenes live with equal rights in partial republics after the liberation . The importance of the AVNOJ resolutions for Yugoslavia and its successor states and the continuity in their legislation up to the recent past can be derived from this. In addition, the government in exile , which met in London , was revoked and King Peter II was prohibited from returning.

The AVNOJ Presidium as the decision-making body was supported by the “ National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ” (Serbo-Croatian Nacionalni komitet oslobođenja Jugoslavije , NKOJ for short ) headed by Josip Broz Tito as the executive body .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Michael Portmann : Yugoslavia in the Second World War 1941-1945 . GRIN Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-638-46073-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).