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The article examines the activities of the Central Yugoslavian Bureau under the Central Committee of the RCP(b) at the final stage of the Civil War. According to the Soviet and Yugoslav historiography of the socialist period, the Yugoslavian communist organizations in 1920-1921 were mainly engaged in facilitating the returnof the Yugoslavs ‒ former Austro-Hungarian subjects who participated in the Civil War on both sides – to their homeland. The documents chosen for the article make it possible to assert that these organizations did not contribute to the repatriation of compatriots as much as they tried to «appropriate» part of the powers executed by the Bolshevik punitive organs. Namely, the right to decide at own will who of the Yugoslavians is a «proletarian element» and, thus, can count on return, and who is subject to imprisonment in a concentration camp so that the hostages can be later chosen from them. In conclusion, the author gives his vision of the reasons for the closure of the mentioned organizations of the Yugoslav communists.