ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the origins of the memory politics of the ‘cursed soldiers’. It provides historical context, introducing briefly the history of the anti-communist underground and examining the communist memory politics towards anti-communist partisans. It explains how and why the right wing transformed the underground into an ideologically and emotionally laden symbol of the ‘cursed soldiers’. It demonstrates that the symbol of ‘cursed soldiers’ expressed the ressentiment against communist and democratic transformation after 1989.
