The Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Serbia ( / ''Antifašistička skupština narodnog oslobođenja Srbije'';
acr. АСНОС / ASNOS) was formed in November 1944, as the governing body of the
Yugoslav National-Liberation Movement in the newly liberated
Serbia
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. President of ASNOS was
Siniša Stanković
Siniša Stanković (; ; 26 March 1892 – 24 February 1974) was a Yugoslav and Serbian scientist and politician. As a prominent biologist, he became member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. As a politician and statesman, from 1944 to ...
.
In the autumn of 1944, Serbia was liberated by partisan forces and the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...
. As soon as
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
was liberated on 20 October, creation of new administration was initiated. In early November 1944, the ''Great Anti-Fascist People's Liberation Assembly of Serbia'' () in Belgrade. It consisted of more than eight hundred delegates, elected throughout liberated regions of Serbia. In order to form permanent representative body, delegates elected 250 representatives, thus constituting the ''Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Serbia''. In the same time, they affirmed the policy of reconstituting Yugoslavia as a
federation
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, with Serbia as one of its federal units. Thus was initiated the process that led to the creation of the ''Federated State of Serbia'' (), as a
federated state
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within new
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, also known as Democratic Federative Yugoslavia (DF Yugoslavia or DFY), was a provisional state established during World War II on 29 November 1943 through the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Natio ...
.
Presidium
See also
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History of Serbia
The history of Serbia covers the historical development of Serbia and of its predecessor states, from the Early Stone Age to the present state, as well as that of the Serbian people and of the areas they ruled historically. Serbian habitatio ...
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History of the Serbs
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History of Yugoslavia
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Serbia in World War II
Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia
Anti-fascism in Serbia
Communism in Serbia
Political history of Serbia
Yugoslav Serbia
1944 establishments in Serbia
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