SANU memorandum

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The Memorandum on the State of the Serbian Nation in Yugoslavia , known as the SANU Memorandum , was a memorandum prepared between 1982 and 1986 by members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti ; SANU). This memorandum had a significant impact on the resurgence of nationalism in Serbia . The text is said to have been edited by the former member of the Academy and later President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dobrica Ćosić , which he denied, but at the same time defended the memorandum.

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The 74-page memorandum is initially a criticism of current economic and cultural developments in the Yugoslav system. The increasing fragmentation and regionalization of society are deplored and a lack of democratic structures is pointed out. The Titoism is considered "anti-Serb doctrine" by the Serbian nation had been deliberately weakened, which the other republics would then exploited in their favor. The memorandum called for an end to "discrimination against the Serbian people".

In addition to the “economic discrimination against Serbia”, the “suppression of the Serbs in Croatia ” was lamented and there was even talk of “genocide against the Serbs in Kosovo ”. The term genocide or genocide was thus introduced as a fighting term in the intra-Yugoslav disputes.

With the allegation that the Kosovar Albanians were perpetrating genocide against the Serbs, the Academy had blamed this population group for the plight it had identified in Serbia. The thesis was underpinned by historical arguments that went far back in history and long before the founding of the first Yugoslavia in 1918, and therefore had nothing to do with the current crisis of the socialist system in Yugoslavia.

In conclusion, the authors called for the "national and cultural integrity of the Serbian people to be guaranteed, regardless of which republic or region they live in", without explaining how this demand should be implemented.

Cultural reception

Some extracts from the memorandum were published in the Večernje Novosti newspaper and widely discussed by the public.

Intellectuals and politicians from the other peoples of Yugoslavia responded to the Academy's demands with their own national programs. An increasingly poisoned atmosphere spread between the republics. In the media and also in the literature of Yugoslavia, people wrote more and more openly about “ethnicity” and “blood and soil”, while the other nations were accused of causing their own misery, unemployment, and economic and social hardship.

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