• Serbo-Croatian acronym as OZNA, was the security agency of Communist Yugoslavia that existed between 1944 and 1946. The OZNA was founded on May 13, 1944...
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    in separate voting boxes, a procedure that made electors identifiable by OZNA agents. The election results of 11 November 1945 were decisively in favour...
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    Department for People's Protection (Odeljenje za zaštitu naroda), better known as OZNA, was established within the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation...
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    as a high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Administration (OZNA or UDBA) and later as Prime Minister of Croatia, from 24 August 1990 to 17...
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    agency, the Department of People's Security (Organ Zaštite Naroda (Armije), OZNA). Yugoslav intelligence was charged with imprisoning and bringing to trial...
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    Intelligence and security activity was organized in the following manner: After OZNA (Одељење заштите народа / Odeljenje zaštite naroda) (En:Department for the...
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    killed or summarily executed during World War II by Yugoslav Partisans and OZNA during the first years of the exodus, in what became known as the foibe massacres...
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    of the Yugoslav Department of National Security (Odsjek Zaštite Naroda or OZNA). From 10 June to 15 July of the same year, he was tried for high treason...
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  • 1946 as one of the remnants of the Department for Protection of the People (OZNA), with Directorate for State Security (UDBA) forming the second, civilian...
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    city, they were eventually all assassinated by the Yugoslav secret police OZNA in the days leading up to the Yugoslav army's victorious march into city...
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    Protection of the People (OZNA) installed special groups dressed as Crusaders and agents into Crusader units. Installed OZNA members would bring Crusader...
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  • prosecutions. Following Italy's 1943 armistice with the Allied powers up to 1947, OZNA and Yugoslav Partisans executed in Julian March (Karst Region and Istria)...
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  • Republic of Macedonia under the name Department for People's Protection OZNA, as the official security agency in the Macedonian socialist republic. Officially...
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  • Nazi German Gestapo, the Soviet SMERSH, Yugoslav Marshal Josip Broz Tito's OZNA, the Italian Mafia, the French-Corsican Unione Corse, and KRYSTAL, a massive...
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    OZNA (Department of National Security) issued precise instructions on dealing with prisoners of war. An instruction issued on 6 May 1945 by the OZNA stipulated...
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    Constitution of the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia was passed and OZNA had to hand the camps over to the organs of the Ministry of the Interior...
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    (OZNA) was established, and on 15 August 1944, the People's Defence Corps of Yugoslavia (KNOJ) was formed, which represented operational units of OZNA...
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    Croatian War of Independence (1991) Bosnian War (1992) Yugoslav Partisans OZNA Counterintelligence Service League of Communists Organization in the Yugoslav...
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    parties boycotted the elections due to coercion and intimidation by the OZNA secret police and the Communist Party, aimed at eliminating electoral dissent...
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    arrested by the authorities. On 13 March 1946, Mihailović was captured by OZNA, the Yugoslav security agency. He was put on trial, found guilty of high...
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    an intelligence service known as the Department for People's Protection (OZNA), modeled after the Soviet NKVD. It represented a military intelligence service...
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    vice-president of Yugoslavia (1963–1966) and founder of Yugoslav intelligence agency OZNA, Aleksandar Ranković was removed from positions due to allegations of spying...
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    camp where he was until the end of World War II. In 1946 he was captured by OZNA and put on trial together with Mihailović, other prominent figures from Chetnik...
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  • were also told it was better for them to leave if they wanted peace from OZNA. During the Yugoslav socialist period, Jews were allowed to leave to go to...
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    boarded the aeroplane, only to discover that it was a trap set up by the OZNA. Another version, proposed by the Yugoslav government, is that he was betrayed...
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    government. The OZNA had a plan to capture former members of the Chetnik movement and other military organizations outside of Yugoslavia. There, OZNA agents infiltrated...
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    1944, named People's Defense Directory, direct translation of Serbo-Croat OZNA. Enver Hoxha typically credited the Sigurimi as having been instrumental...
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  • following the Yugoslav occupation of Rijeka, Skull was arrested by agents of OZNA and disappeared. His body was found on the riverbed of the Rječina 25 days...
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    prosecutions. Following Italy's 1943 armistice with the Allied powers up to 1947, OZNA and Yugoslav Partisans executed in Julian March (Karst Region and Istria)...
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    killed or summarily executed during World War II by Yugoslav Partisans and OZNA during the first years of the exodus, in what became known as the foibe massacres...
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