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''"Vojko i Savle"'' (English: Vojko and Savle) is the title of the defamatory article targeting Serbian intellectual Gojko Nikoliš that was planted during early 1987 in the state-owned ''Politika'' daily. The term also refers to the subsequent political scandal the article caused in Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent federal unit of SFR Yugoslavia. Written using what on surface appears to be light humorous tone, the article viciously went after prominent Serbian intellectual and communist veteran of Spanish Civil War and World War II Gojko Nikoliš by tendentiously bringing up and value judging various aspects of his career and personal life in an effort to defame him. The article also mentions another prominent intellectual Pavle Savić, however, in contrast to the strong denouncement of Nikoliš throughout the piece, Savić is only slightly ridiculed. All this was done in somewhat veiled manner as their actual names were never mentioned in the article. Both Nikoliš and Savić were prominent Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) members at the time. In the years since, information came out that State Security (SDB) and political leadership of SR Serbia at the time were very much involved in creating the article and planting it in the high-circulation newspaper amid the political fallout caused by leaked SANU Memorandum excerpts that ended up in the Serbian press during September 1986. Since the immediate writer of "Vojko i Savle" was never discovered with certainty, the issue led to a lot of speculation and accusations over the years. The entire shady episode and the scandal it caused is today regarded as one of the most obvious examples of political elites and security apparatus using the press as a political instrument during the final years of socialist Yugoslavia.〔(Politika falsifikata ); ''Vreme'', 23 January 1999〕 ==Background== At the time when the article got published, the relations between SANU and Serbian political leadership were already strained for quite some time, mostly over the controversial SANU Memorandum that was leaked to the press in September 1986. Because of the Memorandum, the political leadership of SR Serbia was under pressure from the political leaders of other Yugoslav constituent republics, mostly SR Croatia and SR Slovenia, to deliver a strong public denouncement of the controversial document. Complicating matters even further was the simmering behind-the-scenes personal political battle between SR Serbia's top two political authorities at the time — experienced Ivan Stambolić (president of SR Serbia's Presidency) and surging Slobodan Milošević (at the time president of SR Serbia's Communist League's Central Committee) – as well as their seemingly different reactions to SANU Memorandum and to growing Serbian nationalism in general. As the biggest political authority in Serbia at the time, Stambolić condemned the Memorandum immediately (meaning that such a stance became official Serbian policy), while Milošević kept silent and avoided doing the same for a long time. He was eventually pressured by Stambolić into condemning the Memorandum, and Milošević finally did it during summer 1987 in a public speech at Bela Crkva as part of memorial festivities for July 7 holiday.〔(Dusan Stupar );''Ćirilica'', 14 February 2011〕 In the decades since, information came out that Serbian State Security (which kept extensive files on each individual involved in public life) played an integral part in the entire "Vojko i Savle" episode by providing personal information on Nikoliš and Savić to Serbian political leadership that later ordered the piece to be written using that info. As Milošević vs. Stambolić political battle intensified throughout 1987 and eventually had its finale played out in September 1987 at the now infamous 8th Sitting of SR Serbia's Communist League, Milošević tried to get people from State Security to accuse Stambolić and his political ally Dragiša Pavlović of being behind the entire sordid episode because he wanted to show that they used the media in order to defame SANU membership. The name of the actual individual who wrote the piece never came out because none of the parties involved were willing to talk about it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vojko i Savle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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