Informbiro period
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The Informbiro period was an era of Yugoslavia's history following the Tito–Stalin split in mid-1948 that lasted until the country's partial rapprochement with the Soviet Union in 1955 with the signin
Aleksandar Ranković established a special anti-Cominform staff in the Yugoslav State Security Administration.
Goli Otok prison camp was built to hold people convicted of supporting Stalin after the split from the USSR.
Arso Jovanović headed an unsuccessful coup d'état and was subsequently killed while fleeing to Romania.
Yugoslavia saw large-scale labour-intensive infrastructure works, such as construction of New Belgrade where this photo was taken.
Goli Otok
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Goli Otok is a barren, uninhabited island off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. The island is located in the northern Adriatic Sea just off the coast of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, with an area of app
Informbiro period
…labour. 100 Yugoslav citizens were seriously wounded or killed between 1948 and 1953 while some sources claim 400 victims during the existence of the Goli Otok prison camp. The purges included a significant number of members of Yugoslavia's security apparatus and its military. This break with the Eastern Bloc…
Aerial view of Goli Otok
The abandoned site of Goli Otok in 2005
Graffiti saying 'It's over!'
Square of Goli Otok victims in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, pictured 2022.