ARRESTS AND KILLING OF PEOPLE WHO WERE CONSIDERED POLITICALLY SUBVERSIVE TO THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED AUTHORITIES IN THE VILLAGES OF DONJI ANDRIJEVCI DISTRICT BEFORE THE ELECTIONS FOR THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IN 1945

Abstract

Izbori za Ustavotvornu skupštinu ujesen 1945. trebali su biti presudni za budućnost demokracije i državno uređenje poslijeratne Jugoslavije. Događaji u kotaru Donji Andrijevci u okolici Slavonskog Broda početkom studenoga 1945., kada su pripadnici 12. brigade XII. divizije III. jugoslavenske armije u selima kotara Donji Andrijevci uhitili, odveli od kuće, saslušavali, mučili, ubili i zatim bacili u Savu dvadesetak “nepoćudnih” osoba, među kojima i tri žene, najjasnije oslikavaju složeno i represivno ozračje u kojem su se izbori događali. Uz to, predizborni događaji u kotaru Donji Andrijevci ogledni su primjer nastojanja poslijeratnih jugoslavenskih komunističkih vlasti, od najniže do najviše razine, da se represija, pa i nedvojbeni zločini počinjeni nad stvarnim ili pretpostavljenim protivnicima prikriju i drukčije prikažu.The elections for the Constituent Assembly in the fall of 1945 should have been decisive for the future of democracy and the state system of the post-war Yugoslavia. The events in Donji Andrijevci District near Slavonski Brod in early November 1945 when the members of the 12th Brigade of the Yugoslav Army Third Division arrested, took away, interrogated, tortured, killed and then threw the bodies of twenty “undesirable” persons, including three women, into the river Sava, most clearly depict complex and repressive atmosphere in which the elections occurred. In addition, the pre-election events in Donji Andrijevci District are the model example of the post-war Yugoslav communist authorities’ efforts, from the lowest to the highest rank, to conceal or to show in different light the repression and the undoubted crimes enforced against real or presumed adversaries