Serbian Cultural Club
| Abbreviation | SKK |
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| Motto | "a strong Serbian identity — a strong Yugoslavia" |
| Formation | c. 1937 |
| Headquarters | Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
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Region served
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
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President
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Slobodan Jovanović |
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Key people
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The Serbian Cultural Club was a short-lived but influential grouping of mainly Belgrade-based Serb intellectuals of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the years immediately before the outbreak of World War II. Initially created as a policy institute to support the Serb opposition, after the 1939 Cvetković–Maček Agreement and the consequent creation of an autonomous Croatian unit within Yugoslavia, it became primarily a vehicle to advance the Serbian national interest throughout Yugoslavia. After the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the president of the SKK, Slobodan Jovanović went into exile with the government, but several members remained behind in Yugoslavia and developed a Serb-centric ideological framework for the Chetniks of Draza Mihailovic.
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Formation
The professor of constitutional law Slobodan Jovanović was the president of the Serbian Cultural Club (SKK) prior to World War II.[1] Prior to the outbreak of war, the lawyer Stevan Moljević was chairman of the Banja Luka section of the SKK.[2]
Activities
A large segment of the membership of the SKK opposed Yugoslavia's accession to the Axis alliance.[3] During the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Jovanović went into exile with the most of the post-coup Yugoslav government, and in January 1942 he became the Prime Minister of the Yugoslav government-in-exile.[4]
Dragiša Vasić, a member of the small Republican Party, was the vice-president of the SKK, and became a member of the Executive Council of the Central National Committee (CNC) of the Chetniks of Draza Mihailovic from August 1941 onwards,[5] as did Moljević.[2] The CNC advised Mihailovic on domestic and international political matters, and liaised with civilian leaders in areas of Yugoslavia where Chetnik influence was strong.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Tomasevich 2001, p. 230.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tomasevich 1975, p. 167.
- ↑ Tomasevich 1975, p. 41.
- ↑ Tomasevich 1975, p. 270.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Tomasevich 1975, p. 126.
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