Political situation in the Glina Municipality 1990 – 1991

U radu autor na temelju objavljenog i neobjavljenog arhivskog gradiva, onodobne periodike i relevantne znanstvene literature analizira političku situaciju u općini Glina 1990. - 1991., preciznije, od početka demokratskih procesa u Hrvatskoj 1989. do napada na policijsku postaju u Glini 26. lipnja 1991. Nakon prvih višestranačkih izbora u proljeće 1990. vlast u Glini osvojili su komunisti, zahvaljujući potpori srpskog stanovništva koje je željelo očuvati socijalističku Jugoslaviju. Hrvati su se opredijelili za nacionalne stranke želeći ostvariti demokratsku i samostalnu Hrvatsku. S vremenom, Srbi u općini Glina gube povjerenje u komuniste i okreću se velikosrpskoj politici Knina i Beograda s krajnjim ciljem pripojenja hrvatskog teritorija i općine Gline Republici Srbiji. Od proljeća 1990. do veljače 1991. traje politička kriza u općini uzrokovana politikom Srpske demokratske stranke (SDS) koja djeluje protiv Ustava i zakona Republike Hrvatske. U tom periodu nije izabrana izvršna vlast te su raspisani prijevremeni izbori na kojima je SDS osvojio većinu u Skupštini. U proljeće 1991. SDS odvodi Glinu u ilegalnu tvorevinu Srpsku Autonomnu Oblast (SAO) Krajinu koja ne priznaje centralnu vlast u Zagrebu i teži pripojenju Republici Srbiji. U ljeto 1991. otpočeo je rat za hrvatski teritorij, u kojemu se našla i općina Glina.The author of this paper utilizes published and unpublished archival documents, periodicals from the time and other relevant scientific literature to analyse political situation in the Glina Municipality in the 1990 and 1991, precisely, from the beginning of democratic changes in 1989 to June 26th 1991 when the police station in Glina was attacked by Serb forces. After the first democratic elections in the spring of 1990 communists took power over the municipality, mostly because of Serb voters who wanted to preserve socialist Yugoslavia. The Croats have chosen nationalist and democratic parties to represent them in order to create independent democratic state of Croatia. In time, Serbs in the Glina Municipality lost their trust in communists and turned to greater-serbian policy of Knin and Belgrade whose final goal was annexation of Croatian territory, therefore the Glina Municipality, and acquisition to the Republic of Serbia. From spring 1990 to February 1991 Glina Municipality had a political crisis caused by the policy of Serb Democratic Party (SDS) which operated against the constitution and laws of the Republic of Croatia. In that period executive authority of the municipality hasn't been elected so new elections were announced. SDS won it and took Glina Municipality to illegal Serbian Autonomous District (SAO) Krajina, which didn't acknowledge the Croatian government in Zagreb, but wanted to unite with the Republic of Serbia. In the summer of 1991 started the war for Glina and other Croatian territory