ORJUNA

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The Organizacija Jugoslavenskih Nacionalista (Organization Yugoslav nationalists), shortly Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists , was a jugoslawisch- unitaristisch oriented nationalist and fascist organization that from 1921 to 1929 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was. It combined the racist belief in a single Yugoslav nation with anti-clericalism , anti-Semitism and anti-communism to form an extremely nationalist and aggressive ideology . As a kind of paramilitary auxiliary force of the Yugoslav Ministry of the Interior , ORJUNA also used violent methods and acts of terrorism against national Croat and communist opponents as well as national minorities . "Separatist" Croatian and socialist activists were also fought with assassinations.

ORJUNA Chetniks in the fight against communists (propaganda poster, 1920s).

ORJUNA cultivated the Chetnik cult and worked with the Chetnik associations of Kosta Pećanac , Ilija Trifunović and Nikola Pašić .

history

Followers of the ORJUNA

Poster for the ORJUNA Congress in Belgrade in 1925

The organization was founded in Split in 1921 by lawyers Vicko Krstulović , Ljubo Neontić , Marko Nani and Edo Bulat as a youth organization called Jugoslavenska Napredna Nacionalistička Omladina (Yugoslav Progressive Nationalist Youth), or JNNO. As early as 1922 it changed under the name ORJUNA to an organization to which people of all ages belonged. The main goal was to maintain a unitarian Yugoslav state.

The ORJUNA did not stand for election as a political party, its supporters voted for pro-Yugoslav oriented parties.

When the Yugoslav king Alexander I proclaimed the royal dictatorship and dissolved parliament in 1929 , the ORJUNA supported him. However, it was banned shortly afterwards on March 8, 1929, like all other political parties and organizations.

Web links

Commons : ORJUNA - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Rory Yeomans : ORJUNA . In: Cyprian Blamires (Ed.): World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia . Volume 1. ABC-Clio Inc, 2006, p. 745 .
^ Holm Sundhaussen : History of Serbia: 19th - 21st century . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77660-4 , p. 246 .
^ Rolf Wörsdörfer: Hotspot Adria 1915–1955: Construction and articulation of the national in the Italian-Yugoslav border area . 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-70144-2 , pp. 188 .
^ Rolf Wörsdörfer: Hotspot Adria 1915–1955: Construction and articulation of the national in the Italian-Yugoslav border area . 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-70144-2 , pp. 187 .

[Yeomans-1] Rory Yeomans : ORJUNA . In: Cyprian Blamires (Ed.): World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia . Volume 1. ABC-Clio Inc, 2006, p. 745 .

[2] Holm Sundhaussen : History of Serbia: 19th - 21st century . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77660-4 , p. 246 .

[3] Rolf Wörsdörfer: Hotspot Adria 1915–1955: Construction and articulation of the national in the Italian-Yugoslav border area . 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-70144-2 , pp. 188 .

[4] Rolf Wörsdörfer: Hotspot Adria 1915–1955: Construction and articulation of the national in the Italian-Yugoslav border area . 2004, ISBN 978-3-506-70144-2 , pp. 187 .