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{{Infobox War Faction
| name         = Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment
| war          = the [[Yugoslav People's Liberation War]]
| image        = [[File:Spomenik Sisackom odredu-Brezovica.jpg|200px]]
| caption      = Monument to the Detachment in [[Brezovica Forest]]
| active       = 1941–1945
| ideology     =
| leaders      = Vladimir Janjić-Capo
| clans        =
| headquarters = Brezovica forest
| area         =
| size     =
| partof       =[[Yugoslav Partisans]]
| opponents    = [[Axis powers]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], [[Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)|Italy]], [[Independent State of Croatia|NDH]], [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[Chetniks]]
| battles      =
}}
The '''Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment''' ({{langx|sh|Sisački narodnooslobodilački partizanski odred}}), also known as the '''1st Sisak Partisan Detachment''' (''1. Sisački partizanski odred''), was the first [[Yugoslav Partisans|Partisan]] armed [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] resistance unit formed in [[World War II in Yugoslavia|occupied Yugoslavia]] following the [[invasion of Yugoslavia]] by the [[Axis powers]] in April 1941.<ref name="pavlicevic-2007">{{cite book|last=Pavličević|first=Dragutin|title=Povijest Hrvatske|publisher=Naklada Pavičić|pages=441–42|year=2007|isbn=978-953-6308-71-2}}</ref>
It was formed by the outlawed [[League of Communists of Croatia|Croatian Communist Party]] in the [[Independent State of Croatia]] established on 10 April 1941, in the [[Brezovica Forest]] near [[Sisak]] (in today's [[Croatia]]) on 22 June 1941, the day [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] [[Operation Barbarossa|invaded]] the [[Soviet Union]]. It had 79 members, mainly [[Croats]] with the exception of one notable Serb woman, [[Nada Dimić]],<ref name="pavlicevic-2007"/> and was commanded by [[Vladimir Janjić-Capo]].
This event marked the start of armed [[anti-fascist]] resistance in occupied Yugoslavia. In modern Croatia, 22 June is commemorated as a [[Public holidays in Croatia|public holiday]] — the [[Anti-Fascist Struggle Day]].
The detachment began resistance activities the day after its creation;<ref name="Goldstein">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/croatia00ivog|url-access=registration|title=Croatia: A History|first=Ivo|last=Goldstein|author-link=Ivo Goldstein|year=1999|publisher=[[McGill-Queen's University Press]]|location=Montreal, Quebec|isbn=978-0-7735-2017-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/croatia00ivog/page/141 141]}}</ref> launching sabotage and diversionary attacks on nearby railway lines, destroying telegraph poles, attacking municipal buildings in surrounding villages, seizing arms and ammunition and creating a Communist propaganda network in Sisak and nearby villages.<ref name="Goldstein">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/croatia00ivog|url-access=registration|title=Croatia: A History|first=Ivo|last=Goldstein|author-link=Ivo Goldstein|year=1999|publisher=[[McGill-Queen's University Press]]|location=Montreal, Quebec|isbn=978-0-7735-2017-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/croatia00ivog/page/141 141]}}</ref><ref>{{citation|surname1=[[Nikola Anić]]|title=Antifašistička Hrvatska : Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odredi Hrvatske 1941.–1945.|publisher=Multigraf marketing-Savez antifašističkih boraca i antifašista Republike Hrvatske|publication-place=Zagreb|at=p.&nbsp;34|isbn=953-7254-00-3|date=2005|language=German|quote=Prvi partizanski odred, koji je osnovan u Hrvatskoj, odnosno u okupiranoj Jugoslaviji, formiran je 22. lipnja 1941., u šumi Žabno kod Siska. […] Nije to bio prvi partizanski odred u okupiranoj Europi, niti prvi antifašistički partizanski odred u Europi, kako se dugo govorilo. Prve oružane partizanske postrojbe u okupiranoj Europi pojavile su se još 1939., u okupiranoj Poljskoj, onda u Norveškoj, Francuskoj, zemljama Beneluksa, u Grčkoj itd. Sisački NOP odred je prvi antifašistički partizanski odred u okupiranoj Jugoslaviji, u Hrvatskoj.
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The uprising of the Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment was largely ignored in official Yugoslav historiography that instead claimed that the first uprising in Yugoslavia was the one launched two weeks later in [[Uprising in Serbia (1941)|Serbia]], led by [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]].{{sfn|Cohen|1996|p=94}} In the post-war [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]], the date of the [[Srb uprising]] (27 July) was declared a public holiday, known as the "Day of the Uprising of the People of Croatia", also sidelining the uprising of the Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://balkaninsight.com/2021/07/26/croatian-right-wingers-seek-to-disrupt-wwii-uprising-anniversary/ |title=Croatian Right-Wingers Seek to Disrupt WWII Uprising Anniversary |website=[[Balkan Insight]]|date=26 July 2021}}</ref>
[[Janko Bobetko]], who 50 years later became one of the most prominent Croatian generals in [[Croatian War of Independence]], joined the unit in July 1941.<ref>{Mijo i Mirko (Dragan) bili su članovi prvog sisačkog partizanskog odreda osnovanom 22. lipnja 1941. u šumi Žabno pored Siska. 11. srpnja priključio im se i Janko, a kasnije i brat Mato}https://www.vecernji.hr/enciklopedija/janko-bobetko-18263</ref>
==See also==
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* [[Yugoslav Partisans]]
* [[Yugoslav People's Liberation War]]
* [[Resistance during World War II]]
==References==
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* {{cite book
| last = Cohen
| first = Philip J.
| year = 1996
| title = Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History
| publisher = Texas A&M University Press
| location = [[College Station, Texas]]
| isbn = 978-0-89096-760-7
| url = https://archive.org/details/serbiassecretwar0000cohe
| url-access = registration
}}
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