Reference Type:  Journal Article
Author: Milin, Miodrag
Year: 2008
Title: Partidul Comunist Român și minoritățile — Rumunska komunisticka partija i mawine — Romanian Communist Party and the Minorities: The Case of The League of Slavic Cutural-Democratic Associations in Romania or: The Serbs in Banat between the Suffering for Heresy and the Suffering of “Re-education"
Translated Title: [A Román Kommunista Párt és a kisebbségek. A Szláv Kulturális-Demokrata Egyesületek Szövetségének esete Romániában, avagy: a bánsági szerbek "eretneksége" és fájdalmas átnevelésük]
Journal: Temišvarski zbornik
Volume: 5
Pages: 115-131
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Serbian, history, politics, comunism
Abstract: (ENG) On the basis of the official documents preserved in the National Archives (Timis district administration), this paper follows the work of the so-called League of the Slavic Cutural-Democratic Associations in Romania (a satelite organization of The Romanian Communist Party) from its foundation, when the of The Slavic Anti-Fascist Front was 'reorganized', till 1951. Three completely different periods could be clearly distinguished: the initial one, when the delight about the relations with Yugoslavia prevailed, the middle one, when The Resolution of the Inform-bureau was published in 1948, characterized by the vacillation between awareness that The Resolution should not be accepted and human yielding to great pressure including threats and intimidation; finally,
in the third period, the leadership was incapacitated by arrests, staged processes, harsh accusations and even harsher verdicts, so only the teddified weak persons remained to work in The League, fearing that they, too, would maybe face the same destiny, so they spoke out louder and more loyally than it was natural. In the first period, the Serbs there placed great hopes in the communist Yugoslavia, in the third they believed that they would gain benevolence of the communist Romania by being loyal. In both cases, their hopes failed, so they suffered both from the
former and the latter. This paper presents well the third personality, too, the personality of the men-chameleons who remained there from the beginning till the end, changing according to the
circumstances, going against their own word and ruthlessly sacrifying their collaborators. Thus the Serbs there suffered from their own kin, too. This presentation is a narative about that multi-layered tragicalness. The presentation is accompained by the quotations from the authentic official documents which illustrate the psychological charge of the hard post-war times and pressures put on the Serbs from the highest and most responsible functions in the state, so that they would, without grudging, loudly and irrevocably accept not only a specific offical line of the party, but also its every vacillation: immediately after the war friendship with Yugoslavia, somewhat later completely the opposite, animosity leading to the fabrication of lies and advocating hatred. Perhaps the worst thing was the fact that the implementation of the party line was to be realized regardless of the victims, and the fact that the sacrifying of others was left to the will of many dishonest, even evel
-meaning persons. The Serbian population — delighted with the presence of the Soviets, whom the Serbs lightly equalited with the Russians, and even more delighted with the partisan
fighting in which they took part, as well as deceived by the propaganda which they didnot see through — at first impulsively, carelessly, almost suicidally opted for the introduction of the new political regime, and then, experiencing a multi-layered tragicalness, they gradually withdrew from public life, allowing unwanted persons — who would represent and disgrace them, and who would be difficult to get rid off later — to rise on their behalf and to them harm.
URL: http://www.maticasrpska.org.rs/stariSajt/casopisi/temisvarski_zbornik_5.pdf