The Main National Liberation Committee for Serbia ( sr, Главни народноослободилачки одбор за Србију/Glavni narodnooslobodilački odbor za Srbiju) was the body of the "National Liberation Movement" (the
Yugoslav Communists
Yugoslav or Yugoslavian may refer to:
* Yugoslavia, or any of the three historic states carrying that name:
** Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a European monarchy which existed 1918–1945 (officially called "Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" 1918–1 ...
and
Yugoslav Partisans
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...
) in
German-occupied Serbia
The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (german: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; sr, Подручје Војног заповедника у Србији, Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kin ...
, recognized within the movement as the
civilian government
Civil authority or civil government is the practical implementation of a state on behalf of its citizens, other than through military units (martial law), that enforces law and order and that is distinguished from religious authority (for example ...
in Serbia. It was established in October or November 1941, active during the
Republic of Užice
The Republic of Užice ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Užička republika, Ужичка република) was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini ...
, a short-lived liberated territory in western Serbia in the second half of 1941, and in 1944–45 during the
liberation of Yugoslavia
World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the US ...
.
According to V. Vinterhalter, the "Main National Liberation Committee for Serbia" was established on 16 November in liberated Užice.
A letter issued by Tito on 16 November stresses that a "Central Committee for all of the liberated territory ... had now been established" in Užice. The organization was thus called the Central Committee for Liberated Territory (''Centralni odbor za oslobođenu teritoriju''). The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia
The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...
(CK KPJ) appointed the Committee on 17 November. Its establishment had been initiated by the leadership of the National Liberation Movement for Serbia, with consent of the National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia (''NOP Jugoslavije'', the war-time KPJ). The President was
Dragojlo Dudić, and Secretary was
Petar Stambolić
Petar Stambolić (; 12 July 1912 – 21 September 2007) was a Serbian communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and as President of the Presidency from 1982 until 1983.
Bio ...
. The organization did not hold any official assemblies. The organization became defunct with the
renewed German occupation, only to resurface in November 1944 as the "Main National Liberation Committee for Serbia" ( sh, Glavni NOO Srbije).
Organization
Members
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The President was
Dragojlo Dudić, and Secretary was
Petar Stambolić
Petar Stambolić (; 12 July 1912 – 21 September 2007) was a Serbian communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and as President of the Presidency from 1982 until 1983.
Bio ...
. Other members were
Mitra Mitrović Mitra Mitrović ( sr, Митра Митровић; 6 September 1912 – 4 April 2001) was a Serbian politician, feminist and writer.
Biography
The daughter of a railway official, she was born in Požega. Her father died of typhus during Worl ...
(Education and culture),
Vlada Zečević
Vladimir "Vlada" Zečević ( Serbian- Cyrillic: Владимир Влада Зечевић; 21 March 1903 ( OS), in Loznica – 26 October 1970, in Belgrade) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and later a member of the League of Communists of Yugos ...
(Trade, supplies, forestry and mining),
Milentije Popović
Milentije Popović ( sr-cyrl, Милентије Поповић, ; 1913 – 1971) was a member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1939. During World War II he held various Party and administrative positions. After the war, he became the ...
(Transport)
Mirko Tomić(Health)
Nikola Grulović Mitar Bakić
Mitar Bakić ( sr, Митар Бакић; Berislavci near Podgorica, 7 November 1908 - Belgrade, 25 November 1960), was a Yugoslav politician, general and People's Hero of Yugoslavia. During World War II, he was political commissar of the 4th Mo ...
,
Jovan Popović, and Jusuf Tuluć.
[Mladenović, p. 140]
See also
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Provincial Committee for Serbia
The Provincial Committee for Serbia ( sr, Покрајински комитет за Србију/Pokrajinski komitet za Srbiju) or Provincial Committee of Serbia (Покрајински комитет Србије/Pokrajinski komitet Srbije), abb ...
Annotations
*Also known in Serbo-Croatian as ''Glavni NOO Srbije'' or ''Glavni NOO za Srbiju''. "NOO" is the acronym ''Narodnooslobodilački odbor'' ("National Liberation Committee").
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Serbia in World War II
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