KATARINA PEOVIĆ

20 years ago, we wanted to get rid of Tudjman's legacy. Why now is any questioning of his rule a heresy? Katarina Peović brought half of the Parliament to hysteria by referring to notorious facts about Tuđman, The Hague and BiH Jasmin Klarić 09/25/2020 448 RECOMMENDATIONS 8 COMMENTS This type of mirror is obviously not entirely advisable for today's Croatia to put in front of its nose. In the last two decades, Tudjman, from a ruler whose legacy (okay, okay - part of the legacy; a good part) Croatia has been trying to get rid of, has turned into a political icon that one part of the political scene unreservedly worships and another does not dare to question. Moreover, undoubtedly the most powerful politician in the last decade to the left of the HDZ, Zoran Milanovic, personally suggested in one of the campaigns that the Zagreb airport be called "Franjo Tudjman". At the beginning of the 21st century, when the HDZ first lost the elections, de-Germanization was the word of the season. Croatia trapped in the jaws of corruption, murky privatization, remorse for the war in BiH and crimes at home, lack of media freedom, non-recognition of election results, under tacit sanctions from the international community and, ultimately, a country that was fatally late on its way to European integration saw no problem in trying to get rid of the legacy personified in the character and work of the most powerful politician of the 1990s, Franjo Tudjman . Twenty years later, Franjo Tuđman and his historical and political heritage are the subject of almost religious worship in the Republic of Croatia. Any public questioning about this becomes a serious risk for verbal or actual beatings (as at the unveiling of the monument to the first president in Zagreb). TRUTH HURTS Katarina Peović, a Member of Parliament for the Workers' Front, experienced her part of the change that Croatia has gone through in those twenty years in relation to Tuđman (and, clearly, with forethought) yesterday . And only because, speaking exclusively the truth, she asked a very meaningful question: "Is the name of the new university Franjo Tudjman appropriate, given that the International Criminal Court has determined that Franjo Tudjman participated in a joint criminal enterprise?". What Peović asked, however, is a real heresy in Croatia in the third decade of the 21st century. To question the achievements of the rule of man that the majority political current after his death tried to expel from the state system as a toxic substance, today causes an allergic reaction of biblical proportions. In Parliament, representatives of the HDZ and the rest of the right were asked to ban Katarina Peović from speaking and expel her from the parliament, shouting about "the most scandalous statement in the history of the Croatian Parliament", about shame and homelessness, about the fact that Tudjman is one of the greatest Croatian sons ", that the HDZ" will not allow "the ideological heirs of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia to attack Tudjman with slanders and lies… TEXTBOOK CORRECT JANDROKOVIĆ Complete the show. It was as if someone had torn the pages of a holy book in a religious shrine and theatrically tossed them among the faithful. Fortunately, Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković sounded like a textbook of democracy: "We are not here to defend others from saying what they want, it will be up to the citizens to decide," he told the angry right-wing party of the parliament, though without repeatedly repeating the disagreement. with an "unacceptable and incorrect statement" by a representative of the Workers' Front. Peović, however, was completely precise in the factual part of the statement , the International Criminal Court in the final judgment of the so-called the Herzegovinian six claimed that the first Croatian president had participated in a criminal association with the aim of ethnic cleansing of part of Herzegovina and the annexation of that territory to the Republic of Croatia. Tudjman did not have the opportunity to refute this statement in court, because he died in December 1999. THE TEXT CONTINUES AFTER THE AD Sponsored content PC to GO laptop rental: Rent quality laptops to work for a period that suits you! Midas - Native Internet Advertising MILANOVIĆEVA KAP But, this type of mirror is obviously not entirely advisable for today's Croatia to put in front of its nose. In the last two decades, Tudjman has turned from a ruler whose legacy (okay, okay - part of the legacy; a good part) Croatia has turned into a political icon that one part of the political scene unreservedly worships and another does not dare (except on rare trips, like this Katarina Peović, and it is to be guessed that this parliamentary, as Plenković would say, "debutante", will have more) will question them at all. Moreover, undoubtedly the most powerful politician in the last decade to the left of the HDZ, Zoran Milanovic , personally suggested in one of the campaigns that the Zagreb airport be called "Franjo Tudjman". What would be said in political language, a broad consensus was reached on the political legacy of the first Croatian president, and the limits of questioning the character and deeds were set almost to the very edge of legality. It is therefore very curative that someone has emerged who has simply pointed to a certain discomfort that may be caused by the appointment of the University of Defense and National Security by a man mentioned in a final judgment of the International Criminal Court in a very negative context. PRAŽETONČIĆI AND CROATIA Maybe tomorrow someone will dare to say that Franjo Tudjman, like Trump today, left room not to recognize the results of the national elections if he did not like their results. That he repeatedly refused to recognize the election results in the capital, until the HDZ provided two key "pražetončić" there (it is nice that some traditions have not been lost over time). That the first Croatian president, with indisputable merits in defense against the Greater Serbia aggression, was, in fact, the authoritarian ruler of dangerous intentions and operetta habits such as changing the name of (his) favorite football club. And what about the University of Defense and National Security? Respecting historical merits and taking into account the dark part of the rule, there is one, one would say almost as good a name as that of Franjo Tudjman - the University of Defense and National Security Josip Broz Tito . Franjo Tuđman , Jandroković , Josip Broz Tito , Katarina Peović , Workers' Front , University of Defense and National Security , Zoran Milanović Jasmin Klarić Telegram author 564 ARTICLES MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR FACEBOOK (448) TWITTER (0) E-MAIL