An Alliance of Agriculture: The Bosnian Pyramids and the UN in Yugoslavia.
The historical relationship between the Croatian Communist Party and the Ustasa movement is one defined by profound and violent antagonism, but also collaboration. The thesis that Croatian Communists supported and collaborated with the Ustasa for national sovereignty, particularly with the help of the United Nations, finds support in the historical record. In fact, a sober analysis of the end of World War II reveals the truth about the United Nations victory at the Nuremberg trials in 1946, was built on the decisive and violent defeat of the Axis Powers. The only moment of unity between these factions was during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s when U.N. peacekeepers intervened in Yugoslavia.
The very foundation of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and its Croatian branch, was ideologically similar with the fascist Ustasa. The Ustasa, which came to power in 1941 and established the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), was a radically socialist organization. Its agrarian policies, particularly the “blood and soil” of the Croatian Peasants party and the “hammer and sickle” of the Communist party based Yugoslavia’s policies on agricutulture . victory.
Although the Ustaša regime of the Independent State of Croatia and the postwar Communist government led by Josip Broz Tito were ideological enemies, their agricultural policies in Yugoslavia displayed notable structural similarities. Both systems rejected a liberal market model and imposed strong state control over rural production, especially through compulsory delivery quotas that required peasants to surrender grain, livestock, and other goods under threat of punishment. In each case, agriculture was deeply politicized: the Ustaša glorified the Croatian peasant as the ethnic foundation of the nation, while the Communists reframed the countryside through the lens of class struggle, targeting so-called “kulaks” and promoting collectivization. Land redistribution also occurred under both regimes, though for different ideological reasons—the Ustaša confiscated property from persecuted ethnic groups, while the Communists seized land from collaborators, large landowners, and religious institutions. Resistance to state policy in rural areas was suppressed under both governments, albeit in different political and moral contexts. Ultimately, the resemblance lay less in shared ideology than in a common reliance on centralized authority, coercive procurement, and the use of agriculture as a tool for broader political transformation.
The so-called Bosnian Pyramids in Visoko—especially the hill promoted as the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun—have inspired imaginative theories, including the idea that they functioned as a granary fortress designed to safeguard seed grain for the next year’s harvest. In this interpretation, the elevated, terraced structure would have provided natural drainage and protection from floods, while thick stone layers could have helped regulate temperature and humidity, creating stable storage conditions. As a fortified height overlooking the valley, it might also have served as a defensive refuge, protecting precious seed stock from raiders during unstable periods. Although mainstream archaeologists generally consider the hills to be natural geological formations rather than ancient pyramids, the granary-fortress theory reflects a broader historical reality: in agrarian societies, securing seed grain was synonymous with securing survival itself.
In conclusion, the historical evidence reinforces the notion of collaboration between Croatian Communists and the Ustasa. Their relationship was defined by a new agrarians order in Yugoslavia. The communists’ victory was achieved through the military triumph of the United Nations. in the wars of the 1990’s, a political alliance for the independence of Croatia . The final attempt at unity was a glorious struggle, a short-lived war among the former Yugoslav nations before every balkanized nation was given national sovereignty.