Aleksander Bajt

Aleksander Bajt (1921—2000) was a Chetnik intelligence officer during the World War II and a Yugoslav and Slovenian economist, best known as being the most influential macroeconomist in Socialist Yugoslavia.[1]

Aleksander Bajt
Born(1921-02-27)February 27, 1921
Ljubljana, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DiedFebruary 24, 2000(2000-02-24) (aged 78)
NationalityYugoslav and Slovenian
Occupation
  • Chetnik intelligence officer
  • jurist
  • economist
Known forChetnik intelligence officer during WWII and influential post-war Yugoslav macroeconomist

In Yugoslavia

Bajt was born in 1921. During the World War II Bajthe was a member of royalist resistance movement in Yugoslavia and the main intelligence officer of General Dragoljub Mihailović in Rome, Italy.[2]

In Slovenia

Bajt was one of economists consulted to design model for privatization of socially owned companies in post-socialist Slovenia.[3]

Bajt wasa member of the Slovenian Academy of Art and Science.[4]

Bajt's memoires

In 1999 he published his memoirs, titled Berman's dossier (Slovene: Bermanov dosije) in which he surprised the Slovenian public when he revealed his pro-Chetnik and pro-western activities during World War II.[5] According to historian Kosta Nikolić, this work of Bajt is authentic and non-ideological view of events in Axis occupied Yugoslavia during WWII.[6]

Bajt emphasized that in 1941, Communists misused and betrayed the rebellion and sacrificed the Yugoslav population to carry on the Communist revolution, also by initiating and inflaming the civil war in WWII Yugoslavia. He particularly underlined exact military operations in Eastern Bosnia (near Han Pijesak, Vlasenica and Srebrenica) and north-east of Sarajevo where Partisans helped Ustaše to fight against Bosnian Chetniks.[7] Bajt further elaborated that the Germans allowed Partisans to escape encirclement during Operation Schwartz. He blamed British abandoning of Mihailović and his Chetniks because of the agreement Western Allies reached with Soviets. Bajt extensively elaborated about important Chetniks anti-Axis activities and how they were ignored by Western Allies, while in the same time even minor guerrilla communist actions against Axis were recognized as "major battles". Bajt concluded that without any doubt Communist Partisans are most responsible for sins they attributed to Chetniks, primarily for military and civil collaboration with occupiers and for all Yugoslav casualties.[8]

References
  1. (Wagener 1998, p. 363)
  2. Nikolić, Kosta (2006). "Aleksander Bajt, Bermanov Dosije" (PDF). Istoria 20. Veka. 2: 167. Retrieved 15 April 2020. ...niko nije slutio da je bio ne samo sledbenik rojalističkog pokreta otpora u Jugoslaviji, već i glavni obaveštajac generala Dragoljuba Mihailovića u Rimu
  3. Trencsenyi, Balázs; Kopeček, Head of the Ideas and Concepts Department Michal; Kopeček, Michal (25 October 2018). A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II, Part II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' (1968 and Beyond). Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-882960-7.
  4. Economic and Business Review for Central and South-Eastern Europe. Union of Economists of Slovenia. 1999. p. 101. A doyen of Slovenian economists, member of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and professor honoris causae of the University of Ljubljana, Professor Aleksander Bajt died in February at the age of 79
  5. Österreichische Osthefte. Österreichisches Ost- und Südosteuropa-Institut. 2002. p. 339. Dr. Aleksander Bajt, eines Mitglieds der jugoslawischen wirtschaftlichen Elite, ohne dessen Mitwirken kaum eine ... er viele mit seiner aktiven prowestlichen und Cetnik-freundlichen Einstellung während des Zweiten Weltkriegs überraschte.
  6. Nikolić, Kosta (2006). "Aleksander Bajt, Bermanov Dosije" (PDF). Istoria 20. Veka. 2: 167. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  7. Nikolić, Kosta (2006). "Aleksander Bajt, Bermanov Dosije" (PDF). Istoria 20. Veka. 2: 168. Retrieved 15 April 2020. Posebno je apostrofirao konkretne operacije u istočnoj Bosni (kod Han Pijeska, Vlasenice i Srebrenice) i operacije severoistočno od Sarajeva kada su partizani pomagali ustašama da se obračunaju sa bosanskim četnicima
  8. Nikolić, Kosta (2006). "Aleksander Bajt, Bermanov Dosije" (PDF). Istoria 20. Veka. 2: 168. Retrieved 15 April 2020. Bajt se ne dvoumi kada izriče zaključni sud o komunističkoj revoluciji u Jugosla- viji: „Partizani su, u prvom redu, odgovorni za opšte grehove koje pripisuju svojim protivnicima, prvenstveno za vojnu i civilnu saradnju sa zavojevačem, kao i za sve, s tim povezane, počinjene zločine narodne izdaje (...) Odgovaraju za sve žrtve, ljudske i materijalne, koje je pretrpelo stanovništvo, civilno i pod oružjem, zaključno sa stradalima od okupatorovih represalija zbog dela počinjenih u ime revolucije, za sve i svakoga pojedinačno od 1,7 miliona Jugoslovena, čijom smrću se Tito ponosio. Sve su to njihovi zločini i njihove žrtve, njihova kolaboracija i njihove narodne izdaje"

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