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...Croatian Peasants' Party--a moderate leftist party concerned with the poverty of people living in the rural parts of Croatia. As World War II struck and a minority of Croatians supported the puppet state erected by the Nazis, Tudjman chose to battle the fascists instead. He joined the Yugoslav Partisans and fought in the war on the side of the Allies. Thus, in Tudjman's death, Europe has lost its last leader who actively fought against fascism...
Having reached the rank of general in the Yugoslav People's Army, Tudjman became disillusioned by the communists' hegemonic policies created by Tito. When he expressed his dissatisfaction with the regime, he was forced out of political life and turned to academia. After receiving his Ph.D. in history from the University of Zagreb, Tudjman became a specialist on 20th-century Yugoslav history. His chief concern in his academic writing was the preservation of Croatian identity...
...elected president, he declared Croatia's independence. The following year, Croatia was internationally recognized. The Croatian will for independence, of which Tudjman became the embodiment, was answered with violence. The Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitary forces attacked Croatian citizens first hesitantly and then in a more open war. Croatia simultaneously faced open aggression and the tasks of political maturation. Tudjman took on both these major challenges to the newborn nation...
Slobodan Milosevic wasn't at the funeral Monday of his fellow president, Croatia's Franjo Tudjman; they were sworn enemies as a result of the Bosnian war. But even as tens of thousands of Croats turned out to mourn the former Yugoslav army general who led them through a bloody war for independence, the Serbian strongman may have felt the loss of his nemesis - after all, Tudjman and Milosevic were the very best of enemies. "Tudjman probably wouldn't have been elected in 1990 if most Croats hadn't felt threatened by Milosevic's nationalism," says TIME Central Europe bureau...
...when the powers that be pitted a triangle-chested, all-American black guy, "Night Stick" (very much in the NCO mold here), against "Yugoslavia," a balding, grubby, stringy-haired villain waving a Yugoslav flag, that cynical side pushed to the fore. Did that country need any more punishment, symbolic or otherwise? I thought not, and amid the thunderous "U-S-A" chants I found myself cackling uproariously - and even flashed a passable Serb salute for a few seconds before getting scared and holstering...