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There is a large community of Croatian Serbs in Serbia, mainly stemming from Serb refugees that settled Serbia during and after the Croatian War (1991–95), notably during the Operation Storm (4–7 August 1995). There had earlier been state-organized colonization programs of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly in Vojvodina, and during the expulsion of Serbs by the Ustaše regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941–45).

Some 350,000 Serbs were resettled in Serbia during and after the Croatian War, of which the larger part took Serbian citizenship.[1] In 2002, there were 284.334 Serbs from Croatia living in Serbia (without Kosovo). The majority lived in Vojvodina (127.884), then in Central and South Serbia (114.434). The largest part of the community stated that they wanted integration (60,6%), while only 4,3% wanted to return, while there were 27,4% who were undecided.[2] In 2013, ca. 45,000 from Croatia still had refugee status in Serbia.[1][3]

History

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Interwar period

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Serbs from Croatia settled in Vojvodina during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

World War II

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Further information: World War II persecution of Serbs
Serbs expelled from the Independent State of Croatia.

The Ustaše intended to create an ethnically "pure" Croatia, and viewed those Serbs then living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the biggest obstacle to this goal. Ustaše ministers Mile Budak, Mirko Puk, and Milovan Žanić declared in May 1941 that the goal of the new Ustaše policy was an ethnically pure Croatia. The strategy to achieve their goal was to have one third of the Serbs killed, one third expelled, and one third forcibly converted to Catholicism.[4][5]

In a six-month period in 1941, some 120,000 Serbs were expelled to Nazi-occupied Serbia, and tens of thousands fled.[6] The general plan was that prominent people be deported first, so that property could be nationalized and the remaining Serbs be more easily manipulated. By the end of September 1941, about half of the Serbian Orthodox clergy, 335 priests, had been expelled.[7]

Colonization of Vojvodina (1945–48)

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The number of Serbs in Vojvodina increased from 593,735 to 841,246 in the 1940–48 period.[8] The Ministry of Colonization saw problem with the selection and moving of colonists due to overflowing requests from peasants that were not first priority; the Ministry had intended for Yugoslav Partisan fighters to be rewarded first.[8]

Notable people

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This list includes migrants, refugees and people of Croatian Serb descent.

Arts

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Historians

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Journalism

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Clergy

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Politicians

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  • Mirko Marjanović (1937–2006), a former Prime Minister of Serbia and high-ranking official in SPS

Sportspeople

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Active
Retired

References

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  1. ^ a b http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/drustvo/aktuelno.290.html:436817-Izbeglice-iz-Hrvatske-Bez-prava-a-Evropljani. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=315168. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Srbija-zemlja-sa-najvecim-brojem-izbeglica-u-Evropi.lt.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Jones, Adam & Nicholas A. Robins. (2009), Genocides by the oppressed: subaltern genocide in theory and practice, p. 106, Indiana University Press; ISBN 978-0-253-22077-6
  5. ^ Jacobs, Steven L. Confronting genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, pp. 158–59, Lexington Books, 2009
  6. ^ Cohen 1996, p. 90.
  7. ^ Tomasevich 2001, p. 394.
  8. ^ a b Naimark & Gibianskii 1997, p. 178.

Sources

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[[Category:Serbian people of Croatian descent|*Croatian Serbs]] [[Category:Serbs of Croatia|*Croatian Serbs in Serbia]]

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