Svetislav Golubović – Wikipedia

Svetislav Golubović (in Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet: Svetislav Golubović ; Born in 1917 in Batajnica and died in August 1942 in the Fruška Gora massif) participated in the national liberation struggle of Yugoslavia. He was nicknamed Mitraljeta , machine gun.

Youth [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Svetislav Golubović was born in 1917 in Batajnica, near Zemun, in a region which, then, was under the control of Austria-Hungary. Coming from a family of poor peasants, he had three brothers and two sisters. He followed three years of lessons in high school and then worked as a craftsman without ever learning his job. In 1939, he engaged in the royal Yugoslav army at the same time as his other brothers.

In his native village lived several students who introduce him to communism; The local library had Marxist and Svetislav Golubović books became a regular reader. At the time, one of his favorite books was the novel The mother by Maxime Gorki and the young man began to buy books. In the army, he came up with several comrades, with whom he spoke of the Soviet Union and Communism. In 1940, his displayed opinions earned him to be sentenced to 30 days in prison.

After his military service, he stayed unemployed for a time and then worked in Novi Sad, where he remained until the Second World War, which, in Yugoslavia, began in 1941.

The beginnings of the occupation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

After the invasion of Yugoslavia by the axis forces, Svetislav Golubović and his childhood friend Ratko Bokun joined Dimitrije Marčetić and joined the National Movement for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (in Serbian: The National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia ). At the end of July 1941, in Batajnica, a cell of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was formed; Ratko Bokun was the secretary, Rada Obradović was the secretary of the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia ( The Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia ; In short: Skoj) and Svetislav Golubović Cvejko became the head of military affairs of the section.

Cvejko’s house became a meeting place for activists from the National Liberation Movement. Among the people hidden there from the summer of 1941, we can cite Andrija Habuš, Silvester Fogl, Dragan Rajnperh, Anka Daus and Milka Bobinac. At the end of 1941 and in early 1942, there were accommodated in it in Grulović, Jovan Veseelinov žarko and Stanka Munćan-Veselinov Seka, who participated in the Liberation struggle in Syrmie. The house was then in particular frequented by Janko Lisjak, Stevan Dukić, Sóti Pál and Uroš Ostojić, who participated in the Liberation struggle in the Zemun region.

Mitraljeta [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

After the creation of the Batjnica cell, Cvejko, head of military affairs, joined the attack forces on the ground. Its first operation took place at the beginning of August 1941. It was a question of cutting the telephone and telegraph lines located on the Batjnica-Zemun railway track.

He worked to collect weapons and flew his first machine gun with the help of Rada Obradović. One of its privileged targets was the Zmaj factory in Zemun.

In July 1942, the communist supporters intensified the fight in the Fruška Gora and Cvejko mountain fought alongside their famous machine gun. After an operation carried out in Šimanovci on the night of the 28 July 29, 1942 , Cvejko was nicknamed Mitraljeta , the “machine gun”; participated in the operation, several dozen supporters of Radiša Oparušić Stanko and Milan Stepanović Matroz as well as members of the communist organizations of Šimanovci; The Communists managed to seize more than thirty rifles, ammunition and grenades. Mitraljeta also participated in an operation carried out in Deč the August 15, 1942 .

Svetislav Golubović was killed in 1942 during the great German offensive against supporters of the Fruška Gora, not far from Velika put back.

• Žarko Atanacković, Zemun and surroundings in war and revolution , Noli, Belgrade, 1962.
• Djordje Kolaric, The birth of freedom , Zemun, 1970.