The section of the Zagreb and Croatian public who still remembers how the Zagreb City Council at the beginning of 1993 denied the information published in the daily press that the Council had changed the name of the Duro Salaj street to Mile Budak street, was probably surprised to find out that despite the renunciation of the Mile Budak street, a township which prides itself with a name of the Ustashe doglavnik still exists somewhere in Zagreb. This is even more surprising since the elementary school in the township, which has until recently proudly born a name of the author of the Nazi racial laws, has also recently been renamed.
Although the name of Mile Budak is still very present in the street toponymy of the Croatian cities, his appearance in the list of the Croatian electoral districts seemed, apparently, inopportune to some influential factors, so they - judging by the list of the electoral districts published in Vjesnik on 9/30 - performed a small intervention: instead of the township of Mile Budak a township of Cro. Writ. Mile Budak appeared on the list.
The idea that the addition of "cro. writ.", can be used to push, actually keep. Mile Budak in the names of the Zagreb institutions and streets was considered two years ago as well, but it didn't pass. Today, after the doglavnik has suddenly been resurrected on the list of the electoral districts, the idea has obviously been embraced, if not as a brilliant solution then at least as the necessary way out. Besides, as wise Nedeljko Mihanovic said paraphrasing one of the great masters of propaganda from the thirties and the forties, that zrakomlat, provided the word was pronounced 5-6 times, would sound just fine, it is probably expected that the frequent emphasis on cro. writ. Mile Budak will push into oblivion ust. crim. of Mile Budak.
It is only surprising that this suddenly awoken love for the literature of Mile Budak glede & unatoc hasn't been confirmed neither in the book stores nor on the stage.