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September 10, 2025Open Access

Attitudes of Yugoslav Authorities to Freemasonry in Yugoslavia Since 1945

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Freemasonry could not be reactivated in Yugoslavia between 1945-47, contrasting with Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
The paper discusses the freemasonic circles in Belgrade during the 1950s and 1960s, revealing their clandestine activities.
Communist secret services employed anti-masonic propaganda similar to the narratives used by clerical authors between 1926 and 1944.
Insights into the Supreme Council of Yugoslavia in Exile provide context regarding freemasonry's challenges during the communist period.

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The paper analyses the reasons why Freemasonry could not be reactivated in 1945-47 in communist Yugoslavia, unlike in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. It gives insights into the freemasonic circles that operated in Belgrade in the 1950s and 1960s, and the activities of the Supreme Council of Yugoslavia in Exile. It also explains how the secret services of communist Yugoslavia and publicists in the 1980s used very similar explanations on Freemasonry as anti-Masonic propaganda by clerical and pro-Nazi authors in 1926–1944.

Attitudes of Yugoslav Authorities to Freemasonry in Yugoslavia Since 1945

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