Word: karakteristika
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...supplemented by new, lay-staffed people's courts ("daggers in the hands of the people," according to Communist Minister Milovan Djilas*) and by a nationwide network of Soviet-like "people's councils" whose secretaries usually double as local Communist Party secretaries. The councils issue a secret karakteristika (character reference) for each citizen, which is sent on to his superior or employer. The slightest hint of disloyalty toward the Government in the karakteristika is sufficient to bar its subject from getting a job or food. (Recently, a U.S. official living in Belgrade was informed by his maid that...
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