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The Yugoslav partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito, were probably the most successful anti-fascist resistance movement in Europe during World War II. Championing a “supra-ethnic” patriotism in a region plagued by inter-ethnic conflicts, they succeeded in winning genuine popular support, seizing power and liberating a significant part of the country on their own.
Among the most characteristic aspects of this movement, the rhetoric used by partisan leaders was based on a search for unity that included the active participation of all, including women.
This idea, together with an amalgam of ideas combining the revolutionary and the traditional, the Yugoslav communists succeeded in attracting women to the movement and legitimizing the “partizanka” (female partisanship) in the eyes of the population.
Consequently, women contributed to the war effort against the occupation mainly through an extension of their usual tasks within the family and village communities: feeding, cleaning, nursing and caring for others; but some of them were also involved in the armed struggle.
According to official statistics collected in two books mentioned in this video, out of almost 2,000,000 women who were part of the movement, 91 of them received the Order of the People's Hero, the second highest military decoration in Yugoslavia.
Among them all, there is the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who built her own name and legacy during the war in the Balkans, but whose fate led to her capture and eventual public execution.
Today, we will learn the story of Lepa Radić.
Bibliographic references:
• Batinić, J. (2015). Women and Yugoslav Partisans - A History of World War II Resistance. New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 15. Available for download at: es.3lib.net/book/3312947/6b0608
• Beoković, M. (1967). Žene heroji (in Croatian). Sarajevo: Svjetlost. Retrieved from: www.afzarhiv.org/files/origina...
• Despotović, L. et al. (2010). Mitovi epohe socijalizma (in Bosnian). Novi Sad: Novi Sad: Centar za istoriju, demokratiju i pomirenje, Novi Sad Fakultet za evropske pravno-političke studije, Sremska Kamenica, p. 111. Retrieved from: www.chdr-ns.com/pdf/knjiga_mi...
• Kovačević, D. (1977). Women of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War. Belgrade: Jugoslovenski Pregled, p. 51.
• Spahić et al. (2014). Women Documented Women and Public Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th Century. Sarajevo: Sarajevski Otvoreni Centar, p. 46. Retrieved from: soc.ba/site/wp-content/upload...