Moving Towards New Meanings. 9 May in the Balkans

... Communist Revolution. 1919–1953. Cambridge, London, 1991. 3 . The Chetniks (Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army) was a national Serb movement that emerged in the period of struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire. In the Kingdom of Serbia and the first Yugoslavia, the Chetniks included military officers and war veterans. Mihailović himself served as a colonel in the king’s army. In the early 1990s, the Chetnik movement reemerged as a conservative Orthodox movement of a distinctly anti-Western ...