The slogan

Slogan

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 Death to fascism, freedom to the people! was a Yugoslav Partisan motto, afterward accepted as the official slogan of the entire resistance movement, and was often quoted in post-war Yugoslavia. It was also used as a greeting formulation among the movement members both in official and unofficial correspondence during the war and for a few subsequent years, often abbreviated as "SFSN!" when written and accompanied by the clenched fist

Clenched fist

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 salute

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 when spoken (one person usually saying "Smrt fašizmu!", the other responding with "Sloboda narodu!".

The slogan became popular after death of Croatian

Croats

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 Partisan Stjepan Filipović

Stjepan Filipovic

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. As the rope was put around his neck on 22 May 1942, Filipović defiantly thrust his hands out and denounced the Germans

Nazi Germany

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 and their Axis

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 allies as murderers, shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!". At this moment, a subsequently-famous photograph was taken from which a statue was cast.

The August 1941 edition of the Croatia

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n daily newspaper Vjesnik

Vjesnik

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, then the primary media publication of the Partisan resistance movement, featured the statement "Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu".