Death to fascism, freedom for the people

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The Yugoslav resistance fighter Stjepan Filipović stretches his arms up and shouts “Death to fascism, freedom for the people!” Seconds before his execution by the Serbian State Guard

“ Death to fascism, freedom for the people! "( Serbo-Croatian Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu! ; Serbian - Cyrillic ! Фашизму Смрт, слобода народу , Slovenian ! Smrt fašizmu, svoboda narodu , Macedonian ! Смрт на фашизмот, слобода на народот , Albanian  ! Fashizmit Vdekje, liri Popullit ) was a slogan Yugoslav partisan , which was later accepted as the official slogan of the resistance movement and was often used in the former SFR Yugoslavia . It was also used as a greeting for members of the communist movement in both official and unofficial correspondence during World War II and in the years that followed, often abbreviated as "SFSN!" When spoken, the greeting was usually accompanied by a raised fist (one person usually starts with “Smrt fašizmu!”, The other answers with “Sloboda narodu!”).

Literally translated, sloboda means narodu! in German freedom for the people! ( narodu is the dative of narod = the people ). The term people is not meant here in the ethnic sense, but as a collective term for all revolutionary classes.

history

The slogan became known after the death of the Croatian partisan Stjepan Filipović . When the rope for his execution on May 22, 1942 was put around his neck, he stretched his arms up and condemned the Germans and their allies as murderers and shouted "Death to fascism, freedom for the people". At this moment a photograph that subsequently became known was taken.

The Croatian daily Vjesnik , at that time the main medium of the Yugoslav resistance movement, mentioned the slogan in an issue in August 1941.

In addition, the slogan was part of the call for resistance to the Yugoslav Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1941. The Supreme Headquarters Notice used the slogan in its first edition, dated August 16, 1941.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upton Sinclair, Edward Sagarin, Albert Teichner: The Cry for Justice; An Anthology of the Great Social Protest Literature of All Time . Barricade Books, New York 1996, ISBN 1-56980-069-3 , pp. 438 .
  2. ↑ Josip Broz Tito - Biography. www.imdb.com, accessed on September 27, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Vojnoistoriski Institute (ed.): Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o narodno-oslobodilačkom ratu jugoslovenskih naroda . T. 2nd volume 1 . Beograd 1949, OCLC 837183093 , p. 17–18 (A collection of documents and data on the national liberation war of the Yugoslav peoples. T. 2, [kn. 1], Bulletin of the Supreme Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia 1941-1945).