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Serbian National Defense Council

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Serbian National Defense Council (SND)
Formation1914
TypeSerbian nationalism
Pan-Serbism
Anti-Globalism
Anti-Communism
Monarchism
HeadquartersChicago, Toronto, Sydney
Key people
Mihajlo Pupin
Jovan Dučić
Momčilo Đujić
Nikola Kavaja
Dragiša Kašiković
Websitewww.snd-us.com

The Serbian National Defense Council (SND) (Serbian Cyrillic: Српска Народна Одбрана) is a Serb diaspora community organization whose goal is to protect Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian interests abroad.[1] It is based in Chicago (United States), and also has chapters in Toronto (Canada) and Sydney (Australia).

History

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Establishment and the First World War

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SND was founded by Mihajlo Pupin in 1914 in New York City, USA, in midst of anti-Serb tensions leading up to the First World War.[2] Soon after being founded, 83 branches sprung up across the United States and began aiding in the war effort. From 1914 to 1917 SND raised roughly half a million dollars for Serbs in the Balkans, and recruited 17,000 American Serb volunteers to fight on the Salonika front.[3]

World War Two

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By 1941, SND headquarters were relocated to Chicago, Illinois, under the leadership of Mihailo Dučić, and the organization's activities and influence waned. With the arrival of Mihailo's brother, Jovan Dučić, a poet/diplomat, the Serbian National Defense Council was revived.[4] Throughout the Second World War, the SND was heavily engaged in collecting relief funds for Serbs and supporting the Royal Yugoslav Army which during the resistance was a Chetnik cause, of course, under the command of General Dragoljub Mihailovich, appointed by the London-based Yugoslav government-in-exile at the time.[5]

Post-World War Two

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After World War II, the US government under the FARA act, began an intensive probe into all Serbian Nationalist organizations in the US, primarily SND, and continued until 1947.[5]

The SND engaged itself closely with the new Chetnik émigré groups which were forming in the United States' Midwest, and appointed Chicago-based Chetnik Voivoda Momčilo Đujić as a trustee of the organization in 1949.[6]

In 1951, chapters of the Serbian National Defense Council were established in Hamilton, Canada under the name of Serbian National Shield Society of Canada[7] and Sydney, Australia.[8]

Sloboda-Liberty Newspaper

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Sloboda-Liberty (AKA Слобода-Liberty, Sloboda=Liberty, Sloboda/Liberty) is the official newspaper of the Serbian National Defense Council.[9] The first issue was published October 1st, 1952. It has been continually published monthly since 1965. As of 2019, the newspaper was circulated to an estimated 2000 people by subscriptions.[10]

Sloboda-Liberty is written in both Cyrillic and English.[11] It covers topics of interest to the Serbian diaspora community, as well as advertising festivals and public events for members of the Serbian National Defense Council.[10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Dragnich, Alex N. (Spring 1988). "American Serbs and Old World Politics". Serbian Studies. 4: 17.
  2. ^ Alter, Peter T. (2013). "Serbs and Serbian Americans, 1940–present". In Barkan, Elliott Robert (ed.). Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 1261. ISBN 978-1-59884-220-3.
  3. ^ "Bilateral News 2008 | Embassy of the United States Serbia". serbia.usembassy.gov. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  4. ^ Dragnich, Alex N. (Spring 1988). "American Serbs and Old World Politics". Serbian Studies. 4: 19.
  5. ^ a b Lees, Lorraine M. (2007). Yugoslav-Americans and National Security during World War II.
  6. ^ "Duke Momčilo Djujić | Pogledi". pogledi.rs. Retrieved 2014-06-08.
  7. ^ Pavlovich, Paul (1999). "Serbs". In Paul R. Magocsi (ed.). Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 1147. ISBN 978-0802029386.
  8. ^ Stefanovic, D.S. (2002). "Serbs". In James Jupp (ed.). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 678. ISBN 978-0521807890.
  9. ^ "Часопис Слобода". Serbian National Defense Council of America. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
  10. ^ a b Pupin, Michael I. (2019). "Serbian National Defense Council of America". https://www.snd-us.com/images/stories/SNDbooklet-2019.pdf
  11. ^ Sloboda-Liberty Advertisement. (2017). https://www.snd-us.com/documents/sloboda_ad-2017.pdf
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