Summary
Srđan Cvijić: Vixere: Udbina murder in the heart of Europe
The story of the murders of Yugoslav emigrants in the last three decades of the 20th century, organized by the State Security Service of the SFRY, served the writer of this unique chronicle to complement the story of the Cold War in Europe - among refugees from Yugoslavia - in the manner of an exciting documentary novel, based on thorough research. After 1945, the war between the old enemies, the Chetniks and the Ustasha, gained a new side in the conflict, the Yugoslav Udba, which considered political emigration a dangerous vanguard of anti-Yugoslav propaganda.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the propaganda war between these two warring parties turned into a real clash with armed conflicts, when angry political emigrants attacked Yugoslav embassies and officials. in Europe, and the Udba retaliated by sending its secret agents and liquidating the most prominent members of emigrant organizations, be they Serbian, Croatian or Albanian emigrants from Kosovo. In this "neutralization" of the state's enemies, the Udba, in addition to sending its secret agents, inserted executioners from the criminal Yugoslav milieu into the ranks of extreme emigrant associations, thereby opening the doors of the security service to mercenaries and villains, and this conspiracy grew stronger and deeper over time, spreading its tentacles in the Serbian Udba, through the wars of the nineties, until today...
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