PRVI HRVATSKI PREDSJEDNIK DR. FRANJO TUĐMAN O JUGOSLAVENSKOM PREDSJEDNIKU JOSIPU BROZU TITU
THE FIRST CROATIAN PRESIDENT FRANJO TUĐMAN ABOUT THE YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT JOSIP BROZ TITO

Author(s): Nikica Barić
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Political behavior, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Franjo Tuđman; Josip Broz Tito; Croatian Democratic Union; national reconciliation;
Summary/Abstract: Based on his speeches and other statements, the article analyzes Croatian president’s Franjo Tuđman’s views about the Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. We many conclude that Tuđman’s opinions about Tito had been for the most part positive, occasionally encroaching on noncritical apologia of the communist Yugoslavia’s former leader. We may also conclude that Tuđman’s partialness to Tito was, among other reasons, motivated by the fact that Tuđman had been a part of Tito’s Partisan movement in his young days, and that he had later been a member of the Yugoslavian communist nomenclature. To give a better illustration of Tuđman’s interpretation of Tito, the article also describes Tuđman’s insistence on the politics of national reconciliation of the Croatian people, with which he planned to overcome the ideological differences between Croats stemming from the events of World War II.

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