HRVATSKA U KUTLINOM DŽEPU

NEWS FROM LILIPUT Jurica Pavičić writes: Kutle, a man who deserved to get at least a street in Split Founding father. HDZ pioneer. Nice barracks. Manager of the Year. Winner of numerous orders. It is the only Kutle that exists now Miroslav Kutle Miroslav Kutle Kristina Fazinić Posted: September 12, 2020 7:08 pm Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail Since Croatian citizens have decided to have a chicken memory, perhaps they should be reminded of what their country looked like not so long ago. For example, in the late nineties. Perhaps they should be reminded of what a part of this country looked like then - in the late 1990s. The part where people are particularly prone to having a chicken memory. And that part of this country is Split. In those nineties, Split was a city that could be called Kutlograd. Miroslav Kutle, an HDZ barracks and a tycoon from Široki Brijeg, owned almost everything in Split in those years. His business penetration into my hometown began with the privatization of the newspapers in which I worked at the time. Through Kutla's conversion fraud, he acquired the best Croatian daily newspapers at the time, newspapers that had a new printing house under the hammer, their own sales network and a circulation of 160,000 copies in July and August. In just a few years, he devastated the newspaper in terms of personnel, business and professionalism, using them as a stronghold and ATM for the expansion of the local empire. In one of the interviews, Kutle called it a "bike ride" strategy, in which you fall if you don't ride forward. "Cycling" took him far. By the end of the 1990s, only the central Dalmatian branch of the Kutlina Empire consisted of dozens of trading companies and real estate in good locations. Koteks, Jadrantekstil, Dalma, Kastela Riviera - these were some of the branches of the Kutlina empire in Split, an empire that fed by transferring money from one company to another. At one point, Kutlin's Split empire was so comprehensive that it seemed that the barracks from NK Sava would privatize even Hajduk. The most visible symbol of public humiliation was the fact that in the late 1990s, even the mayor's office in Split was Kutlin's tenant, stationed in the "mushroom", the upper floor of the Koteks shopping center. It was just the Split branch of Kutlin's powerful business polyp. And in addition to the one in Split, there were Zagreb and Dubrovnik, there were Zagreb cellars, Tisak, Diona and Dubrovačka banka, there were real estate, banks, savings banks, export companies, kiosks. In the 1990s, Miroslav Kutle was what would later become Todorić: the greatest Croatian entrepreneur, at the same time Untouchable, Unnamed, too big to - it was thought - fall. In addition, he had the support of the party of which he was the founder of the barracks. He was revered and cared for. As Dario Juričan reminds us these days, he was decorated many times. He was the winner of the Order of the Croatian Danica with the figure of Blaž Lorković, the Order of Ante Starčević and the Memorial of Homeland Gratitude. Needless to say, he was the winner of an award that was a passing station for many to fry. He received this award - Croma, for Manager of the Year - from the Association of Managers in 1992. And then overnight it all fell apart. To this day, the question remains to what extent it collapsed due to internal business contradictions (how much, to put it simply, Kutla's business was the chain of St. Anthony), how much because the barracks favorite fell away from political mercy, and how much because Kutle became a negative symbol and HDZ's night PR nightmare. In any case, with the Široki Brijeg business mastermind, the business empire melted away in an instant. Free Dalmatia was in fact taken from him, his business empire fell apart in the domino effect of debts, and when the government changed, he ended up in custody for fifteen months as a defendant. Not only in Split, but especially in it, devastation remained behind it. Bankruptcies, dubiousness, mortgaged real estate and thousands of lost jobs remained. There are companies left behind and damaged, real estate that is rotting, the ruins of modernist buildings, uncut and scattered grass around the once magnificent architectural pearls. Thousands and thousands of families remained thrown into the streets, left to the new economy of Turkish tracksuits in the Market and - much later - Booking. coma. Pripjat remained behind Kutla in Split, but not only in Split. Perhaps this should be reminded of those analytical sages who today claim that privatization has not harmed the Croatian economy. RELATED NEWS Josip Lucic WRITTEN BY JURICA PAVIČIĆ Why Hrvatski tjednik, after dozens of vulgar covers, has only now become 'morally monstrous' JURICA PAVIČIĆ The Beroš-Zadravec conversation is an audiogram of the rule in Croatia, in which a key sentence was uttered Kutle fell - and became Voldemort. The new government glued him to the forefront of the HDZ as a supreme "sin of structures", the HDZ pretended that Kutle never existed, and the Croatian prosecutor's office began one after another to indict the tricks that took place in Kutla's "golden hour": 1994 … 1996… 1997. All these mighty indictments were dragged down the ever-efficient corridors of the Croatian judiciary until one of them resulted in punishment. At that moment, Miroslav Kutle fled to the reserve homeland of all Croatian criminal patriots: his native BiH. There he is under the careful protection of the only judiciary that is even worse than the Croatian one. There, they say, he developed a fine business with chamomile and Kupres medicinal herbs. It was secretly filmed there two years ago by Dario Juričan for the needs of the documentary "Boss 2". Kutle in those shots looks great. He is blackened by the mountain sun, he has a gray three-day beard, he doesn't have that unhealthy ashen path of people who work all day and spend too much. In that short shot of a few seconds, Kutle looks like an American retiree on a sailing cruise. And while Kutle was fleeing from the long and ungrateful hand of the state he "founded" in the reserve homeland, interesting processes were taking place in that state - Croatia. The 1990s were rehabilitated first. Then Herceg-Bosna was rehabilitated. Then Tudjman was rehabilitated, whose monument is now housed in the centers of Zagreb and Split, after which today, thanks to the left-wing prime minister, the main international airport is named. And as the face-lift over Kutla's epoch was gradually carried out, so was the rehabilitation of the leading tycoon of the 1990s. HTV has produced at least two TV series ("Could it have been different?" By Ivana Kovač and "War before the War" by Miljenko Manjkas) in which Kutla's circle of privatization princes declares themselves political victims. Numerous lawsuits against Kutla - started too late, conducted too slowly - one after another fell into obsolescence. The prosecution tried to revive them with a cunning maneuver, so as to avoid the statute of limitations with a lawsuit for war profiteering. But the judges did not fall from the bulb to appreciate that cheap communist maneuver. And so we got to the point where the circle closed. And it closed this week. This week, namely, Miroslav Kutle was acquitted of charges of embezzlement in the company Tisak from 1996/1997. He was acquitted of an indictment for which he had once been convicted and then acquitted, and now the court has finally ruled that the case is statute-barred because the acts in the indictment cannot be considered war profiteering. "One more to go", the Kupres camel collector had to shout at that moment. From the complete rehabilitation - say the insiders - it is separated by only one lousy object, which inevitably rushes to the near obsolescence. So forget everything you knew in the nineties. Forget ruined work collectives, tunneled money, bankruptcies and bankruptcies, forget failed jobs, ruined brands, real estate that rots in bushes and rust. Forget what you knew about "that" Kutla, about the tycoon, about the black king of conversion, about the human equivalent of a horde of locusts. Both judicially and politically, that Kutle was annulled. That Kutle is gone. Only the other one remained. Founding father. HDZ pioneer. A proud barracks player from NK Sava. Manager of the Year from 1992. Winner of the Order - as they are called - yes, the Order of the Croatian Danica with the figure of Blaž Lorković. Order of Ante Starčević. And - how else - aha: Monuments of homeland gratitude. It is the only Kutle that exists now: not a tycoon, not the ruler of Split of the darkest era, not a destroyer of jobs. He is a true patriot, a loyal founder of the ruling party and the bearer of the Memorial of Homeland Gratitude. And if all these merits are taken into account, if a new, refreshed view of the 1990s is taken into account, if the virgin white innocence into which Kutla was wrapped by the Croatian judiciary is taken into account, No - Kutle should be obtained if not a statue, then at least a street. And in the city where he left the deepest mark. And that is Split. Why not, after all? In Split, when it comes to monuments and statues, the 1990s were turned upside down a long time ago. In Split, the unit that evicted tenants from military apartments has a monument right in the street where it did so. In Split, a unit whose members tortured civilians in Lora has a monument - can you guess - of course, next to Lora. In Split, after all, the square and the statue have already been given to the man who handed the city over to Kutli on a plate. In Hajduk's town, the square and the statue were given to the creator of Dinamo's sports domination, Dr. Franjo Tuđman. Therefore, the next, natural and self-evident step is for another slandered deserving person of the 1990s to get a street in Split - now a court-rehabilitated, HTV bleach-washed holder of the Memorial of Homeland Gratitude. And since in Split they tend to erect monuments to perpetrators where they committed atrocities, there are several suitable locations for the new Miroslav Kutla Boulevard. For example, the avenue that passes by today's Free Dalmatia. Or the one next to the Koteks center, where in 1997 the mayor was his tenant. Only in this way - on a decent city avenue - will we thank the man who left such a strong mark on the history of our city. This is the only way to correct the injustice towards the 1990s. According to the era we have been accusing for so long that now - after a long struggle for memory - she would finally be acquitted. R E-mail #Miroslav Kutle #Privatization #Jurica Pavičić Do you want to supplement the topic or report an error in the text? Show commen