Naslov
THE REPRESSION OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN YUGOSLAVIA AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS IN THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF CROATIA IN THE 1970S - THE EXAMPLE OF TOMISLAV DRŽIĆ'S GROUP

Autori
Krašić, Wollfy

Izvornik
Review of Croatian History (1845-4380) 18 (2022), 1; 321-349

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
communist Yugoslavia, Croatian Spring, repression, Tomislav Držić, Croatian émigrés

Sažetak
The paper analyzes the arrest and trial of a group of opponents of the communist regime in Yugoslavia in the mid-1970s in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, who were convicted of founding a terrorist organization that collaborated with Croatian anti-Yugoslav émigrés in the West. The verdict is compared with the investigative documents of the Yugoslav intelligence service, but also with the authorized record of the conversation that the author of this paper had with the first defendant Tomislav Držić in 2019. It is argued that this was a group of regime dissidents whose activity consisted of anti-regime conversations, writing anti-regime texts that were not disseminated, reading Croatian émigrés' propaganda materials and Držić's occasional contacts with émigré in Canada Stjepan Dubičanac, rather than a terrorist organization that could seriously shake the regime.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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