VIDEO / Izložba Kosturice o Jasenovcu danas u Njujorku / "Svet Plus" January 27, 2017

Svet Plus
Autor: J.B.
January 27, 2017

Internacionalna organizacija 28. Jun se pridružuje Ministarstvu spoljnih poslova Republike Srbije, Istraživackom centru Jasenovac, Inistitutu Šem Olamu (Izrael) i Andric institutu povodom prezentovanja izložbe i konferencije o koncentracionom logoru Jasenovc pod nazivom „Skriveni holokaust“.

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Najveći dogadaj takve vrste na americkom tlu, obeležice 75 godina od stvaranja logora Jasenovac i utemeljiti pravo potomaka žrtava i globalne zajendnice na njihovo secanje. 28. Jun je zadužen za marketing i brendiranje projekta kao i za dizajniranje zvanicnog internet sajta izložbe: www.hiddenholocaust.info. Zvanično otvaranje će se održati ovog petka u 14:30, 27. januara, 2017. ulica Harrison, broj 51, 3. sprat, Hoboken, Njujork. Glavni govornik ce biti dvostruki osvajac Zlatne palme Filmskog festivala u Kanu i osnivac Andrić instituta Emir Kusturica. Izložba ce predstaviti skulpture Katarine Tripkovic i akademskog skulptora Ljubiše Mancica motivisane žrtvama logora Jasenovac. Ambasador dr Ljiljana Nikšic, šef odseka za migrantsku politiku i dijasporu Ministarstva spoljnih poslova Republike Srbije i inicijator projekta je izjavila da je „cilj projekta da se mobiliše globalna publika i doprinese ocuvanju univerzalnih vrednosti kao što su mir, sloboda i zaštita ljudskih prava“.

Oni koji nisu u mogucnosti da prisustvuju dogadaju, mogu ga pratiti uživo na prenosu stranice 28. Jun na Fejsbuku.


VIDEO:
HIDDEN HOLOCAUST
Posted on You Tube by: "28. Jun Org"
Published on January 26, 2017





https://youtu.be/SxrWoAh_Nk8


http://www.svetplus.com/vesti/65330/izlozba-kusturice-o-jasenovcu-danas-u-njujorku-video


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Kusturica predstavlja istinu o Jasenovcu u Njujorku / "B92" [Tanjug] January 27, 2017

B92
[Tanjug]
January 27, 2017

Kusturica predstavlja istinu o Jasenovcu u Njujorku

Njujork -- Povodom Međunarodnog dana sećanja na žrtve holokausta u petak će u Njujorku biti otvorena izložba "Istina o Jasenovcu - pravo na nezaborav".

Emir Kusturica

Photo: Tanjug

 

 Otvaranju će prisustvovati delegacija iz Srbije i preživeli logoraši, saopštilo je Ministarstvo spoljnih poslova u Beogradu.

Logoraši i članovi delegacije iz Srbije prisustvovati centralnoj ceremoniji u UN, a obeležiće i Dan Svetog Save, 27. januar, kada će biti otvorena izložba, najveća postavka o Jasenovcu ikada do sada viđena u inostranstvu.

Izložbu "Istina o Jasenovcu-pravo na nezaborav", na kojoj će biti izloženo 180 panoa sa tekstovima Međunarodne Ekspertske grupe istoričara, 25 skulptura vajara Ljubiše Mančića i Katarine Tripković i 21 crtež slikara Dragana Jelovca, foto zid Vukice Mikače, autentični predmeti Memorijalnog centra Donja Gradina, knjige, projekcija filmova: "A bogovi su ćutali" i "Šaulov sin" organizovali su instituti za holokaust iz Izraela i za Jasenovac iz Njujorka, uz podršku ministarstava spoljnih poslova Srbije i Izraela.

Na njoj će biti izložena građa iz arhiva Izraela, Nemačke, SAD, Italije, Norveške, Srbije, Republike Srpske i Hrvatske.

Direktor Međunarodne Ekspertske grupe istoričara za pripremu 180 panoa izložbe je profesor Gideon Grajf, glavni istoričar Holokausta i ekspert za Aušvic Institut za Holokaust-Šem Olam iz Izraela.

Umetnički direktor Izložbe je Emir Kusturica, ambasador UNICEF, direktor Andrić Instituta i potpisnik Memoranduma o saradnji srpske i jevrejske akademske zajednice i dijaspore.

Promoteri kampanje "Jasenovački nezaborav" su istoričari iz sedam zemalja i javne ličnosti poput primadone Beogradske opere i narodnog poslanika Jadranke Jovanović, Ane Sofrenović, ambasadora UNICEF, Vjere Mujović Prajs, navelo je ministarstvo.

Prezentovanju izložbe su se pridružili i Institut Šem Olam i humanitarna organizacija 28. jun.


http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2017&mm=01&dd=27&nav_category=78&nav_id=1224500


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International Holocaust Day and Exhibition “JASENOVAC - THE RIGHT TO REMEMBRANCE” January 27, 2017 [and beyond]. / Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia

The Jasenovac Memorial monument.
Photo by Teo Gasparovic / WikiGoGo

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

of the Republic of Serbia

 

International Holocaust Day and Exhibition
“JASENOVAC - THE RIGHT TO REMEMBRANCE”
January 27, 2017 [and beyond].

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of Jasenovac, a series of commemorative events will be held in New York, from 27-30 January 2017. On the Holocaust Day, camp inmates and members of the delegation from Serbia will attend the main ceremony to be held in the United Nations, in the morning hours. On the same day, St. Sava Day, 27 January, an exhibition will be opened, announced as the biggest exhibition on Jasenovac ever displayed in a foreign country. The event in New York will be attended by a Serbian 23 member delegation, headed by Vladimir Bozovic, Advisor to the Serbian Prime Minister, including members Ivan Kostic, President of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, other camp survivor inmates, 15 scientific researchers, two UNICEF ambassadors and artists.

Exhibition "The Truth about Jasenovac – the Right to Rememberance", where 800 kilograms of material will be displayed, including: 180 billboards containing texts of the International Expert Group of Historians, 25 sculptures by sculptors Ljubisa Mancic and Katarina Tripkovic, and 21 drawings by artist Dragan Jelovac, a photo wall by Vukica Mikaca, authentic objects from the Donja Gradina Memorial Centre, books, screening of films: "And Gods Remained Silent" and "Saul's Son", was organized by Israeli Holocaust Institute, and New York Jasenovac Research Institute, with the support of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Israel. The exhibits will include materials from the archives of Israel, Germany, USA, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Republic of Srpska and Croatia. The Director of the International Expert Group of Historians, which prepared 180 billboards for the exhibition, is Prof. Dr. Gideon Greif, a leading Holocaust historian, Expert on Auschwitz at the Holocaust – Shem Olam Institute in Israel. The Exhibition's Art Director is Prof. Emir Kusturica, UNICEF Ambassador, Director of the Andric Institute and signatory of the Memorandum on Cooperation between Serbian and Jewish Academic Communities and Diasporas. Promoters of the "Jasenovac Remembrance" campaign are historians from seven countries and public personalities including Belgrade Opera primadonna and Member of Parliament Jadranka Jovanovic, UNICEF Ambassador Ana Sofrenovic and Vjera Mujovic Preis.

On Saturday, 28 January, a scientific conference "History Workshop – Jasenovac Magnum Crimen" will be opened and addressed by Chairman Prof. Dr. Gideon Greif; co-chaired by: Emir Kusturica, film director and UNICEF Ambassador; Barry Lituchy, history professor at Medgar Evers College in New York and founder of the New York Jasenovac Research Institute; Knut Fluvik Thoresen, an Oslo historian and researcher of the "Simon Wiesenthal" Centre in Israel, and Prof. Dr. Dragana Radojicic, Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA).

The intention to hold commemorative events in New York was communicated to the public in July 2016, at the lecture by Prof. Dr. Gideon Greif held at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade and the Andric Institute in Visegrad. The initial lecture was attended - in addition to representatives of the professional community, by representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and the Jasenovac Committee of the Serbian Orthodox Church Holy Synod of Bishops.

This was followed by the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Andric Institute, Tel Aviv Holocaust Institute, New York Jasenovac Research Institute, Comparative Law Institute, and the SASA Institute of Ethnography, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the presence of FDPM/MFA I. Dacic and H.E. Dr. Alona Fisher Kamm, Ambassador of Israel. One of the joint steps to follow will be organization of a world conference on the Holocaust and genocide in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), to be held in Andricgrad, in April.

On 6 October, a public hearing on the protection of the culture of remembrance of Jasenovac was held at the Serbian National Assembly, for the first time in Serbian Parliament history. The hearing was co-organized by the Migration and Diaspora Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Serbian National Assembly Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region. Historians and fighters against racial discrimination coming from seven countries participated in the event, which was also attended by Secretaries General of the President, and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Serbian Prime Minister's Advisor, representatives of many camp inmate associations, the diplomatic corps, and Members of Parliament.

The exhibition devoted to genocide and the Holocaust in NDH was realized by New York Jasenovac Research Institute, which has been organizing there, for the last 15 years, annual conferences about this notorious concentration camp. Furthermore, the City of New York is the only foreign city which adopted an official decision that 22 April - the Jasenovac inmate breakthrough day, be declared Jasenovac Remembrance Day, which has been annually observed in New York since 2005. The Holocaust Memorial Park in New York is the only foreign memorial park to include a monument to Jasenovac. The monument was erected by the Serbian diaspora. The main event commemorating the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held annually on 27 January, at the United Nations. For this reason, the tribute to Jasenovac victims will be paid in New York, both at the UN Headquarters, and the Holocaust Memorial Park where wreaths will be laid on the monument dedicated to Jasenovac and Auschwitz concentration camps, attended by Serbian and Jewish diaspora.

Vasilije Krestic, academician and President of the Association for Building a Memorial Centre to Serb Victims of Genocide in the 20th Century, has assessed that the exhibition is based on international documents, well-balanced, politically thoughtful, and in line with the foreign policy interests of the Republic of Serbia – the only country charged for genocide twice before the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Academician Krestic believes that foreign sources cited at the exhibition only contribute to the objectivity of the perception of the executors' genocidal intent, further indicating that the exhibition is universal in character, timely, addressing the challenges in the international arena, while contributing to the protection of Serbia's foreign policy interests and cherishing the culture of remembrance of Serbian victims in the NDH.


http://www.mfa.gov.rs/en/press-service/statements/16132-27-january-2017-international-holocaust-day-and-exhibition-jasenovac-the-right-to-rememberance


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Zagreb Event Challenges [Jasenovac] Concentration Camp Death Toll / "Balkan Insight [BIRN]" January 25, 2017

Balkan Insight
[BIRN]
Sven Milekic
Zagreb
Wednesday January 25, 2017

Zagreb Event [Wed. Jan. 25, 2017] Challenges Concentration Camp Death Toll

The Zagreb [Croatia] authorities have given the go-ahead to a controversial event questioning the official number of victims of the World War II fascist concentration camp at Jasenovac in Croatia.

The Jasenovac memorial. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Bern Bartsch

The Zagreb city administration has given its consent for a public roundtable discussion on Wednesday evening that will discuss “manipulations” of the official number of victims who died at the World War II concentration camp Jasenovac, which was run by fascist Ustasa movement.

The right-wing participants will also question whether Jasenovac was really a concentration camp, or just a labour camp.

The personnel running the hall where it will take place – a venue owned by the city – confirmed to BIRN that the municipal administration has given consent for the discussion entitled ‘Jasenovac - False Myth’, organised by an NGO called the Croatian Club.

The panellists will include right-wing historian Josip Jurcevic, ballistics expert and writer Zdenko Kuftinec, and two members of a highly controversial Croatian far-right NGO called Threefold Jasenovac - historian Stipo Pilic and journalist Igor Vukic.

The NGO claims that the Ustasa ran a labour camp at Jasenovac for enemies of the regime, but it says that the real death camp was run by the Yugoslav Communists, which imprisoned Ustasa members and regular Croatian Home Guard army troops until 1948, then alleged Stalinists until 1951. No documents exist that prove the NGO’s claims.

The vast majority of historians believe however that Jasenovac was a concentration camp for Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascists, and was open between 1941 and 1945.

According to research by the Jasenovac Memorial Site, 83,145 people – 47,627 Serbs, 16,173 Roma, 13,116 Jews and the others anti-fascists – have been identified on a name-by-name basis as having died at the concentration camp during the war, a figure which is not yet final.

Jurcevic told BIRN that Wednesday’s event was “a small attempt to tackle all the manipulations regarding the Jasenovac camp”.

“People who are researchers of Jasenovac will speak here… The goal of the roundtable is to publicly, as much as is possible, present the facts on the issue in order to demythologise and depoliticise this topic,” he said.

Jurcevic claimed that the number of people who died at Jasenovac has been exaggerated for political purposes and “isn’t supported by scientific facts”.

The Jasenovac Memorial Site however compiles its list of victims from at least two verified independent sources, such as documents and relatives of those who died.

Vukic said meanwhile that he will speak about an international delegation – made up of representatives of other Nazi-aligned states as well as the Holy See – which visited the camp in February 1942 and, he claimed, described conditions at the camp in a way that “opposes the claims promoted by the official historiography”.

“They actually confirm what former President [Stjepan] Mesic said in a video published the other day. He actually didn’t say anything wrong or bad,” Vukic added.

Two videos of Mesic, both recorded in 1992, in which he questioned the death toll at Jasenovac and whether it was actually a concetration camp, were made public on Monday by far-right news site Maxportal and local TV show Bujica.

Mesic said on Tuesday however that he had made “unsubstantiated allegations” in the videos and explained that he had changed his views since the footage was filmed 25 years ago.

“In the circumstances of the political environment [in 1992] in which I actively participated… and under the influence of inaccurate information that I received, there was this reckless statement,” admitted Mesic, who was Croatia’s president between 2000 and 2010.

“If I offended someone with my reckless statement, I hereby apologise,” he added.



http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/panel-downplaying-jasenovac-camp-victims-approved-by-zagreb-s-administration-01-25-2017


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Croatian Jews to boycott Holocaust remembrance event over 'relativization' of crimes / "Reuters" Jan. 23, 2017

Reuters
Reporting by Igor Ilic; editing by Mark Heinrich
January 23, 2017

Croatian Jews to boycott Holocaust remembrance event over 'relativization' of crimes

Croatian Jews said on Monday they would boycott the country's main Holocaust remembrance event this week, accusing the authorities of playing down crimes perpetrated under the Nazi-backed Ustasa regime during World War Two.

Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic addresses a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany December 12, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held on Jan. 27 each year, the date in 1945 when the biggest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz in occupied Poland, was liberated by Soviet troops.

Three months ago, rightist veterans of Croatia's 1991-95 independence war raised a commemorative plaque in the town of Jasenovac to comrades killed there at the beginning of the conflict Zagreb fought to secede from Serbian-led Yugoslavia.

Included in the veterans' plaque are words from a salute used by the Ustasha regime that killed tens of thousands of prisoners including Jews, Serbs, Roma gypsies and anti-fascist Croats, in the 1941-1945 Jasenovac concentration camp.

That prompted the association representing Croatia's remnant population of Jews, numbering somewhat over 1,500, to pull out of its primary Holocaust remembrance event, which is normally conducted in the Zagreb parliament.

"We took the decision on the basis of reactions by the government, parliament and the president. The problem is not (just) a plaque in Jasenovac including the Ustasha salute, but the relativisation of everything (to do with the Holocaust)," community leader Ognjen Kraus told the state news agency Hina.

The center-right government of Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic - now on an unrelated visit to Israel - proposed last month forming a commission that would legally regulate reappearances of symbols from any past totalitarian regime.

Kraus dismissed the gesture. "If swastika or Ustasha symbols are equated with the (communist) red star, what are we talking about? Are we going to revise history? Establish a commission to tell us what World War Two was about?" he said.

Croatian society has been divided since independence over how to treat both the Nazi collaborationist and communist past of the ex-Yugoslav republic, now a European Union member state.

Some Croats believe authorities have been indifferent to sporadic resurfacings of Ustasha extremism, including the chanting of Ustasha slogans by ultra-nationalist soccer fans.

Others say post-independence governments, particularly those led by the left, have failed to appropriately condemn crimes committed during 45 years of post-war communist rule.

In April 2016, members of the Jewish community, the Serb minority and an anti-fascist group boycotted the Holocaust commemoration event at the Jasenovac camp site in protest at what they deemed the authorities' feeble reaction to incidents "revitalizing" Ustasha ideology.

Croatian Jews and Serbs have called for more thorough teaching in schools about the abuses of Ustasha rule.



(Reporting by Igor Ilic; editing by Mark Heinrich)


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-croatia-holocaust-idUSKBN1571VZ


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Nazi hunter: Israel’s silence on Croatia’s Holocaust distortion is abdication of duty / "JTA - Jewish Telegraphic Agency" January 24, 2017

Efraim Zuroff

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

JTA - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
January 24, 2017

Nazi hunter: Israel’s silence on Croatia’s Holocaust distortion is abdication of duty

(JTA) — A leader of the Simon Wiesenthal Center accused Israel of “abdicating its duty” to Holocaust survivors following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to mention the genocide in a statement about Croatia.

The allegation Tuesday by Efraim Zuroff, a well-known Holocaust researcher, hunter of Nazis and head of the center’s Eastern Europe operations, came during the state visit to Israel by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and amid a conflict between his government and Croatia’s Jewish community.

Citing the Croatian government’s “failure” to address publicly the role of the pro-Nazi members of the Ustasha fascist movement in the murder of Croatian Jews during the Holocaust, the leadership of the country’s main Jewish group said it would skip a state memorial ceremony in Parliament planned for Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“The problem is that the government relativizes everything that has to do with the Holocaust,” Ognjen Kraus, president of the Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of Croatia, told Reuters Monday. His organization boycotted last year’s state event for similar reasons.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic was photographed in November holding a flag of Croatia’s fascist puppet regime during World War II. That month, World War II veterans engraved a Ustasha slogan on a commemorative plaque installed in the town of Jasenovac. Authorities ignored the Jewish community’s pleas to have the plaque removed.

Last week, a Croatian principal shut down an exhibition about the Holocaust that the Anne Frank House of Amsterdam helped put up in his high school. He told the local media that he objected to its presentation of Ustasha militiamen as killers. Zuroff on Monday wrote to the Croatian Embassy in Israel demanding the principal be fired.

Ustasha men are responsible for killing the majority of the 30,000 Croatian Jews murdered in the Holocaust, according to Yad Vashem. Only a fifth of the country’s pre-Holocaust Jewish community survived the genocide.

However, Netanyahu’s statement to the media about his meeting with Plenkovic made no direct or indirect reference to these controversies. Instead, he thanked Croatia for helping Israel fight forest fires last fall; praised Croatia – which is a member of the European Union — for supporting Israel in international forums, and called on it to continue to help Israel fight “militant Islamic terrorism.”

Zuroff said that while he appreciates Israel’s need to preserve and nurture its friendly ties to Eastern European nations, the Jewish state nonetheless “currently has enough leverage to find ways to express its concern over Holocaust revisionism and abuse of Holocaust memory without necessarily harming bilateral ties.”

He added that Israel “seems more eager to present itself to receive various compensations for Holocaust-related abuses than it is willing to stand up for the memory of the victims and assume the obligations connected with being the Jewish state.”


http://www.jta.org/2017/01/24/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/nazi-hunter-israels-silence-on-croatias-holocaust-distortion-is-abdication-of-duty


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ЧЕТНИЦИ ВЕЛИКЕ БРИТАНИЈЕ: "Обавeштавамо све заинтересоване да ће се у Лондону 26. и 27. Јануара [2017] обелeжити Холокауст Меморијални Дан у организацији Јасеновац и Холокауст Меморијалне Фондације"

ЧЕТНИЦИ ВЕЛИКЕ БРИТАНИЈЕ‎

Холокауст Меморијални Дан

 

 

Браћо Срби и Сестре Србкиње помаже Бог!

Обавeштавамо све заинтересоване да ће се у Лондону 26. и 27. Јануара обелeжити Холокауст Меморијални Дан у организацији Јасеновац и Холокауст Меморијалне Фондације,
добротворног удружења која се бави ширењем истине о усташком геноциду на територији Независне Државе Хрватске у Другом свјетском рату.

Комеморација ће почети 26. Јануара [2017] у Дому Владике Николаја са почетком у 19.30 часова.

Почетак комеморације ће прикладним говором отворити ЊЕ Огњен Прибићевић, амбасадор Србије у Великој Британији, и Драгана Томашевић, директор ЈХМФ.

Потом ће услиједити промоција књига Др Владимира Умељића ОКЦИДЕНТАЛНО-ЕВРОПСКА КУЛТУРОЛОШКА ТРАДИЦИЈА, ВЕЛИКИ ГЕНОЦИДИ У ЕВРОПИ СРЕДИНОМ И БАЛКАНСКИ РАТОВИ КРАЈЕМ XX ВЕКА те књига у сликама чешког новинара и фотографа Дејвида Сладека под називом Неизговорен Геноцид, као и галеријска поставка исте књиге.

Услиједиће питања и одговори те рецепција са пићем.

27. Јануар [2017]

Kомеморативни програм ће се наставити полагањем венаца на споменик жртвама споразума на Јалти у 11.30 часова а у
12.30 часова биће одржан парастос жртвама хрватског геноцида над Србима у Другом Светском Рату у Цркви Св. Саве у Лондону.
 

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Jasenovac Research Institute and Shem Olam Institute (Israel) cordially invite you to our Exhibition and Conference - "The Right to Remembrance – 75 years after the Establishment of JASENOVAC” - January 27-28, 2017

 

Jasenovac Research Institute

and

Shem Olam Institute (Israel)

 cordially invite you to our

Exhibition and Conference

on the Jasenovac Death Camps:

 

“The Right to Remembrance – 75 years

after the Establishment of Jasenovac”

 

Official Opening:

 

2:30 PM Friday, January 27, 2017

51 Harrison St., 3rd Floor,
Hoboken, NJ 07030

 

Keynote Speaker:
Emir Kusturica
Film Director
Founder, Andrić Institute

 

Suggested Donation for January 27: $20

 

PLEASE also join us for the CONFERENCE:

1 to 4 PM Saturday, January 28, 2017

 

Speakers:

 

Emir Kusturica

Gideon Greif

Knut Thoreson

Dragana Radojićić

Jovan Ćirić

Vladimir Čolović

Mina Zirojević

Milos Stanić

Miroslav Đordjević

Savo Manojlović

Branislav Pantović

 

There will be a discussion and question period

 (Free and Open to the Public)

 

 

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Draža kao tragični junak / "Novosti" January 22, 2017

Novosti
Ivan MILADINOVIĆ
January 22, 2017

SUSRET SA ISTORIJOM / Draža kao tragični junak

Malo poznati detalji iz života kontroverznog generala Dragoljuba Mihailovića. Bio je najodlikovaniji, ali i najsatanizovaniji oficir

General Dragoljub Mihailović

 

GENERAL Dragoljub Draža Mihailović bio je i ostao jedan od najkontroverznijih, a istovremeno i najtragičnijih ličnosti novije, ne samo srpske, odnosno jugoslovenske, već i evropske istorije. Njegov životni opus istovremeno podseća na sve ono što smo kao nacionalni kolektivitet preživeli, a možda još preživljavamo u ovom sumornom modernom dobu koje nam ni najmanje nije naklonjeno. Gotovo pola veka njegova sudbina, iz ideoloških i sebičnih razloga ratnog pobednika, koji je pisao svoju istoriju, predstavljala je najveću tajnu bivše Jugoslavije.

 

Tajna njegove likvidacije, i mesta gde je pokopan, preživela je Josipa Broza i njegovu partiju i državu.

Svako čeprkanje po toj misteriji kao da povređuje osećanja bezgrešnosti onih koji i dalje misle da je postojanija istina koja se propisuje, a ne koja se istražuje i utvrđuje. A takvih je danas mnogo i u stručnim (istorijskim), i u političkim, kao i u gotovo svim krugovima javnih delatnika.

DRAŽA Mihailović bio je najodlikovaniji ali i najsatanizovaniji oficir koji je obukao uniformu od formiranja savremene Srbije. Kroz čitavu jednu epohu tretiran je kao veći izdajnik Srpstva i od Vuka Brankovića.

Šta je sedam decenija naspram šest vekova, rekli bi cinici, pošto, nažalost, naša istoriografija nije raščistila ni sve detalje oko navodnog Vukovog izdajstva. Možda bi primer i razjašnjenje njihovih sudbina mogao da bude korak naše istorije u novo sagledavanje ko smo, šta smo bili i činili i šta nam je činiti.

Dragoljub Mihailović je 14. aprila po starom, a to znači 27. aprila po ovom nasušnom gregorijanskom kalendaru 1893, rođen u Ivanjici. U varošici u koju su državni činovnici, učitelji, praktikanti, slati po kazni.

Otac Mijailo je bio sreski pisar, a majka Cmiljana domaćica. Prezivali su se Mijajilovići. U Požarevačkom arhivu mogu da se pronađu podaci da je otac Mijajilo bio rodom iz tog grada, iz porodice papudžije Milosava i domaćice Ekaterine.

Draža kao potporučnik na Solunskom frontu

 

Tih godina kada je rođen junak ove naše priče u Srbiji dolazi do masovne transkripcije starih imena pa njegov otac postaje Mihailo, a majka Smiljana. I prezime se menja. Postaju Mihailovići.

MIHAILOVIĆ je rano postao siroče. Bez oca je ostao sa navršene dve godine, bez majke kad je imao sedam godina. Jedan od stričeva, veterinarski major Vladimir Mihailović, doveo siročiće, Dragoljuba i njegove dve sestre Jelicu i Milicu, u svoj dom u Beogradu, u Studeničkoj ulici, koja danas nosi ime Svetozara Markovića. Stric Vlajko, kako su ga od milošte zvali, umire kad je Dragoljub navršio deset godina. Bez sestre Milice ostaje kad je napunio 12 godina. O deci se starala Vlajkova majka, Dražina baba po ocu, Stanica.

U osnovnoj školi imao je sve petice izuzev pevanja i gimnastike, iz kojih je bio "vrlo dobar". Draža Mihailović je 1910. sa vrlo dobrim uspehom, primernim vladanjem i pohvalom da je izuzetno vredan, završio Treću mušku gimnaziju na Vračaru, u kojoj mu je jedan od školskih drugova bio srpski knez Pavle Karađorđević.

SAVREMENOG čitaoca, pogotovo one koji sa simpatijama gledaju na astralne znake, verovatno zanima horoskop čoveka koji je imao tako stradalnu sudbinu. Rođen je u znaku Bika. U Dražinom horoskopskom znaku rođeni su Salvador Dali, Petar Iljič Čajkovski, Sigmund Frojd, Vilijam Šekspir, Karl Marks, Hari Truman, Vladimir Iljič Lenjin, Ivo Andrić, Marija Terezija, Adolf Hitler, prorok Muhamed. I, naravno, Mihailovićeva zla kob, Josip Broz Tito. 

 

Draža sa sestrom Jelicom, babom Stanicom i strinom

 

Draža, koji će na početku Drugog rata poštedeti život Titu, a ovaj ga na kraju tog istog rata osudio na smrt, prvi put će se sa njim sučeliti početkom avgusta 1914. u Cerskoj bici. U tom Velikom ratu Draža je kao komandir čete Drinske divizije bio uspešniji od Josipa Broza, komandira izviđačke čete 25. domobranske divizije 42. vražje divizije austrougarske "Kaznene ekspedicije" na Srbiju. Sa svojim ratnim drugovima, dva puta ga je naterao na odstupanje preko Drine. Dobio je i više odlikovanje od Broza. Draža je dobio zlatnu medalju za hrabrost za "umešno rukovanje četom" i zasluge u odbrani srpskih položaja i zauzimanju Valjeva, a Broz srebrnu medalju za hrabrost za izviđanje srpskih položaja i nanošenje teških gubitaka srpskoj vojsci i civilnom stanovništvu zapadne Srbije.

POSLE sedmogodišnjeg ratovanja i dva visoka odlikovanja, u jesen 1919, poručnik Mihailović je postao vodnik Kraljeve garde, u kojoj se zadržao samo četiri meseca. Zbog solidarisanja sa jednim svojim klasnim drugom, koji je u kafani "Sloboda" u Masarikovoj ulici u centru Beograda na dočeku nove 1920. godine nazdravljao Maksimu Gorkom, ruskom filozofu Plehanovu i Lenjinovim boljševicima, kažnjen je sa 15 dana zatvora i prekomandovan u Skoplje.

Neće ovo vreme provedeno u apsani biti i jedino. U jesen 1939. pukovnik Mihailović je zaglavio mesec dana zatvora zbog kritike zastarele strategije odbrane Jugoslavije, oštre kritike jugoslovenskog režima i ukazivanja na "sve jači uticaj Berlina i Rima na Hrvate i Slovence" i na "petokolonašku aktivnost folksdojčera i ustaša u Hrvatskoj". U elaboratu o stanju u jugoslovenskoj armiji piše da "ovako formirana vojska ide u propast i rasulo" i da se "iz vojske moraju izbaciti austrijski oficiri", hrvatske i slovenačke nacionalnosti koji su primljeni u jugoslovensku vojsku.

Draža sa američkim oficirima 1944. godine

 

OKTOBRA 1940. pukovnik Mihailović je ponovo osuđen na mesec dana zatvora, ovog puta zbog toga što je na prijemu u britanskom poslanstvu u Beogradu održao "harangerski govor protiv nacističke Nemačke". Uprava Udruženja jugoslovenskih podoficira tražila je da mu se oduzme čin i da se najuri iz vojske. Nemački poslanik u Beogradu Viktor fon Heren lično je uputio protest vladi Kraljevine Jugoslavije. Kazna od 30 dana zatvora doneta je da bi se Nemcima stavilo do znanja da Mihailovićeve reči izgovorene na njihov račun "ne izražavaju mišljenja zvaničnih jugoslovenskih krugova".

OVAKVI istupi jednog iskusnog obaveštajnog oficira nisu bili slučajni. Postoji više istorijskih izvora koji nagoveštavaju da je Mihailović sarađivao sa sovjetskim službama. Još kao niži obaveštajni oficir vojske Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca dvadesetih godina prošlog veka imao je prve kontakte sa sovjetskim službama. Tada su ti susreti imali uobičajnu saradnju obaveštajaca, ali nisu prekidani ni docnijih godina.

Međutim, ozbiljna saradnja počinje tek posle dolaska Hitlera na vlast. Ali, nije on bio klasičan špijun, agent, u običnom smislu te reči. Podrazumeva se da pukovnik Draža kao veliki nacionalista i monarhista, samom ideološkom odrednicom, nije mogao da radi za obaveštajnu službu jedne komunističke zemlje. Ali, uvek ono ali, kao iskusni obaveštajni oficir, shvatio je da je komunistički Sovjetski Savez, "crvena Rusija", jedina sila koja se može suprotstaviti nemačkom uticaju i agresiji na Balkan, to jest Jugoslaviju. I ponudio je svoje usluge...

KADA je aprila 1941. saznao za kapitulaciju Jugoslavije, pukovnik Mihailović je na planini Ozren kod Doboja rekao: "Ja tu kapitulaciju ne priznajem. Živ se Nemcima neću predati. Nemačka mora da izgubi ovaj rat. Ovakva heterogena vojska kakva je bila naša, nije bila sposobna ni za kakvu borbu... Ovo nije bio rat, ovo je bila zabuna. Mi ćemo se organizovati i povesti gerilsku borbu protiv okupatora."

Draža u zatvoru jula 1946.

 

Globalna nadolazeća ratna i poratna zbivanja su više- -manje poznata. Osim za one s početka ovog teksta koji i dalje misle da je postojanija istina koja se propisuje. I naravno, osim Dražinog groba koji su Tito i njegovi saradnici tako sakrili da se ni danas ne zna gde je.

I nikako ne bi trebalo zaboraviti Dražine reči koje je izgovorio na kraju životnog puta:

- Mnogo sam hteo, mnogo započeo, ali svetski vihor razneo je mene i moj rad.

PRVI SUSRET DRAŽE I VOJVODE ĐUJIĆA

KADA je voz sa posmrtnim ostacima kralja Aleksandra, posle atentata u Marselju, krenuo za Beograd, sveštenik Momčilo Đujić, budući četnički komandant iz Drugog svetskog rata, određen je da bdi pored kovčega. Bilo je predviđeno da se staje na svim većim stanicama i zadržava deset ili dvadeset minuta, zavisno od toga koliko naroda ima.

O ovom vozu, bez voznog reda, ostalo je Đujićevo svedočenje:

- Pred ulazak u dalmatinsko Kosovo, pozvao me je komandant voza, oficir srednjeg rasta, sa neobičnim okruglim cvikerima, inače potpukovnik po činu. Bio je to moj prvi susret sa mojim budućim komandantom i komandantom jugoslovenske vojske u otadžbini, Dragoslavom Dražom Mihailovićem. Njega je zanimalo koliko ovde ima Srba. Rekao sam mu da moja parohija ima 18 sela i samo tri hrvatske porodice. U dalmatinskom Kosovu dočekala nas je masa naroda.Bilo je više od deset hiljada ljudi. Draža je odlučio da se ovde stoji pola sata.



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