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Martyr Complex? In 1941, after the Germans took over Yugoslavia, they established a puppet state of Croatia, over which they put fanatic Nationalist Dr. Ante Pavelic. Archbishop Stepinac announced the founding of the new state from the cathedral and served on its councils, thereby earning the enmity of the Orthodox minority who were persecuted by Pavelic. Stepinac, however, opposed the excesses of the Pavelic regime, refused to accept its forcible converts to Catholicism, sheltered fugitive Jews...
...plunge Europe into two devastating wars; of the effects of a bullet lodged in his body three years ago by an assassin; in Madrid. Embittered by the Allies' creation of Yugoslavia after World War I, Pavelic promised obedience to Nazi Germany in return for a new state of Croatia with himself at the head of it. In the course of the war, he ordered or sanctioned the slaughter of 800,000 Serbs, Jews and Croats...
...Pavelic, a fanatical Croat fascist, was named Poglavnik (leader) by Hitler, and ruled Croatia during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. Responsible for the extermination of 800,000 of his countrymen, Pavelic escaped to Argentina after the war, began working for Stroessner late last year...
Citation: " 'The greatest phenomenon among the sculptors,' said the immortal Rodin. A patriot whose genius expressed with epic grandeur the indomitable spirit of his beloved Croatia...
Oranges & Scuffles. After feting them for two days at his modern villa in Brioni, Tito sent the top Russians off on a tour of Croatia and Slovenia. Khrushchev flabbergasted his hosts by cracking bad jokes, swilling quarts of lemonade from a pitcher-sized glass, gnawing on an orange as voraciously as a dog with a bone. When a flat tire halted his car, he playfully challenged 59-year-old Anastas Mikoyan to a wrestling match. Yugoslavs looked on incredulously while Russia's 61-year-old Communist Party boss scuffled with his First Deputy Premier by the roadside. Mikoyan...