This week marks the 80th anniversary of the culmination of the Novi Sad raid; ca 3,809 civilians were killed, some by drowning in the frozen Danube

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1. The raid happened in the Bačka region of the occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It started in the villages of Šajkaška (a region in southern Bačka, modern-day Serbia) 4-19 January, continued in the city of Novi Sad 21-23 January and ended in Bečej 25-29 January.

   Some 3,809 people were killed; most of them being Serbs (2,578), followed by Jews (1,068), and many others.

   The main perpetrator was the Royal Hungarian Army.

   More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_raid

2. Dang that was a tragic event

3. Huh.. things that are missing from our history books. :/

4. Teleki Pál killed himself in 1941. in protest of attacking kingdom of Yugoslavia, because, not long before that, Hungary sign a treaty of eternal friendship with Yugoslavia. Well, things changed fast, didn’t they? When raid started, Serbian and Jewish languages were forbidden in N. Sad. In protest, Hungarian students talked in Serbian. Even after all that, thousands of dead and lost, Yugoslavia opened her borders for Hungarians in 1956. when revolution in Hungary started.

5. It was in response to communist partisan terrorist arracks and was mostly an anti terrorist operation

6. We were happy before but after reading this, Novi Sad again

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8. Túl kevés

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10. There were even Hungarians who were killed (communists who sided with Yugoslavs against Hungary ) so this was not an ethnic cleansing, it’s just that Serbs were over represented among Yugoslav partisans