"Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" ( sh-Latn-Cyrl , Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu! , separator= " / " , Смрт фашизму, слобода народу! , sl, Smrt fašizmu, svoboda narodu!, mk, Смрт на фашизмот, слобода на народот!) was a

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motto, afterward accepted as the official slogan of the entire resistance movement, that was often quoted in post-war Socialist Yugoslavia. It was also used as a greeting formulation among the movement members both in official and unofficial correspondence during the war and for a few subsequent years, often abbreviated as "SFSN!" when written and accompanied by the clenched fist salute when spoken (one person usually saying "Smrt fašizmu!", the other responding with "Sloboda narodu!").

History

The slogan became popular after the execution of Stjepan Filipović, a

. As the rope was put around his neck on 22 May 1942, Filipović defiantly thrust his hands out and denounced the

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and their

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allies as murderers, shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!". At this moment, a subsequently-famous photograph was taken from which a statue was cast. The August 1941 edition of the Croatian daily newspaper ''

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'', then the primary media publication of the Partisan resistance movement, featured the statement "Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu". The slogan was part 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 ...

's 1941 call to arms for the people of Yugoslavia. The Bulletin of the Partisan Supreme Headquarters uses the slogan in its first issue dated 16 August 1941.Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o narodno-oslobodilačkom ratu jugoslovenskih naroda. T. 2, kn. 1, Vojnoistoriski Institut, Beograd 1949, OCLC Number: 837183093, pages 17-18

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{{Reflist Anti-fascism in Yugoslavia Last words 1940s neologisms Quotations from military Political catchphrases Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslavia in World War II

History

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