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The majority of Serbian population in 1941 was made of peasantry, and that fact did not change either in the period of the occupation, that is, until the end of the war. Serbian village had been emptied, from one part, by taking away of our master of houses in the slavery, but it changed its social image, from another part, thanks to the return of part of people from the towns into village due to bombing and expel of Serbs from other parts of Yugoslavia. Out of the agrarian character of Serbian society the importance of agriculture was coming out. The village coped with the burden of maintaining of other population of Serbia in towns, working class and other occupations. The importance of village is arising from the magazines, newspapers and radio broadcasts dedicated to village in the occupation-quisling's policy, first of all, due to the nutrition of military formation and pressures of the Germans to increase the export of agricultural products. Nedić's policy toward village could not succeed in the conditions of German-quisling's pillage of village and backward economy of Serbia in general.