Scientific Essay from the year 2004 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Ages of World Wars, University of Vienna, (140 Funoten) entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The following article deals with repressive measures undertaken by communist-dominated Partisan forces during and especially after WWII in order to take revenge on former enemies, to punish collaborators, and people’s enemies and to decimate and eliminate the potential of opponents to a new, socialist Yugoslavia. The text represents a summary of a master thesis referring to the above-mentioned topic written and accepted at Vienna University in 2002.