The Parliament, the Constitutional court, the opposition, the free thinking people, the free and independent media, all must do everything to remove Franjo Tudjman from power. By the way of early elections, by a decision of the Constitutional court, by a decision of the Croatian Parliament, any way possible, because Tudjman is leading us to ruin!
Behind his back hide all the miserable black marketers, war profiteers and all the human trash which is benefiting by the fact that they can do anything they want under his protection. They are humiliating us, robbing us, deceiving us, burying us and mocking us, while with one hand holding their foreign passports and holding "piously" and hypocritically the other hand on their hearts (when singing Croatian anthem) and their fingers crossed behind their back.
By Roman Latkovic
In it, in this one word, future, lies the answer to all the Croatian questions. Rhett Butler, in the magnificent Hollywood movie "Gone With the Wind," tells that the South must accept the fact that it is loosing the past to which it has gotten used to. Similarly, Croatia, must, at once, at last and finally accept the fact that the past is an unending source for scientists, a part of the general education, a subject in schools, but under no circumstances can it be the one and only definition of the present; as such past can be a hindrance on the way to the future.
That is why injecting, during the recent New Year's holidays, a hope for the Croatia's tomorrow is nothing more (or less) than sustaining the hypocrisy and fraud with which Croats have lived for some time now! The hypocrisy of the Erdut, Dayton, Paris and many other agreements, which will continue to be used to spread wool over our eyes, because the end of fighting is still something of the utmost importance in the lives of people marked with sufferings of the war, while the Croatian ruling political party, the HDZ, will shamelessly continue to abuse that desire for peace in the dirtiest and the most brutal way we can possibly imagine. Using the same methods which it used in the years past, lies, deceit, trade with our suffering, our tears, even our very Croatian-ness, our deaths, our disfigurements, our tragedies; they manipulated and misused Croatia's Golgotha only and exclusively for their own benefit.
Croatia was just an alibi, Croatian name, history and lives were ordinary, most vulgar excuses so that our beloved Croatia can be shamelessly and grotesquely plundered and humiliated at every step. To lower itself to the unbelievable level of the fascist Serbia! That is why today Serbia had its sanctions lifted by the U.N. while Croatia is being forced to annul its decisions (which also happen to be unconstitutional, as are many other things in today's Croatia) regarding to the repatriation of its citizens. That is why we must not accept the lies and self-deception! If the "Butcher of the Balkans," Milosevic, was a true picture of the evil which had been brought by the revived Fascism to this cursed, blood soaked Balkan mud, then the Croatian tragedy is drawn in his, Milosevic's, bad mirror image, in the man that the world considers to be the "butchers apprentice", in the Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman!
In 1995, Dr. Franjo Tudjman admitted dealing with not only the Croatian territory, but also the territory of Bosnia and Hercegovina. In that same year, Dr. Tudjman mocked and made fun of the retirees, telling them, at the height of cynicism, which is not foreign to him, that his wife, Ankica tells him "he can't pay for his own utilities and heat." Last year, from among the huge number of his lackeys, he chose as the keeper of the state's seal, his own Dorian Gray, mentally debilitated human caricature Ivan Milas ("Posavina hunger, which doesn't exist", "the exodus of Croatian intellectual brains worth two German marks hence irrelevant", and about "Europe which we don't need").
Last year, the president of Croatia broke his given promises ("Christmas in Vukovar, " "no normalization's of relation with Serbia until it recognizes Croatia," .... remembering all of his broken promises brings desperation and disgust) and that year, by audacity worthy of Goebels, Tudjman promoted the lie as the essence of his own politics. According to Tudjman, the world is "marveling" at us, yet German Chancellor Mr. Helmuth Kohl took of his earphones during Tudjmans "Dayton" speech, not being able to withstand Tudjmans useless pseudo-historical ramblings! Last year, during which Tudjman had shown that he considers Croatia to be his own fiefdom, within which he can do as he pleases, he allowed himself the unheard of and incomprehensibly brazen statement of insulting another nation and a state, Bosnia, saying that he will transform it into a civilized and cultured nation. Unbelievable!!!! That was the year (may such a year never repeat it self) that Tudjman insulted the entire world community including the International Court in Hague when he gave a protection to an accused war criminal, who was actually a soldier in another country (Bosnia).
In the same cursed year, he insulted the Croatian history, the same history that he is constantly changing and re-interpreting it in ways to suit his mediocre himself, insulting the "Croatian Spring" (the 1971 attempt by Croatians to gain more freedom), these years of tears, sweat and blood, by not even showing a cursory respect for the death of Mike Tripalo (a Croatian incorruptible patriot that "dared" to criticize Tudjman's incompetence and corruption).
It is clear to the liars and to the thieves that in order for all the corruption to continue, the Tudjman's shadow is needed - to hide behind. And in that shadow, Croatia will fall into a darkness! A black darkness full of fear! Nights in which we will like thieves steal into "sun of foreign sky (countries)", but the terrible night will follow us, wherever we are, the night will be horrible, because it will become a part of our homeland and a part of ourselves, a night which will bring to our lives an eternal cold and constant terror! And the name of all this fear and cold, of the loss of hope, the terror, and the despair is Dr. Franjo Tudjman, a mediocre historian who wrote his evil historical curse ("usud" - a word play on Tudjman's convoluted book) during the 1995.
No one has the right to accept this evil fate any longer, fate which is infesting and spreading throughout our land until we completely pollute it and in that horrible infection loose it forever.
My apologies to Mr. Latkovic for this unauthorized translation, but even more for (probably) not doing justice to his wonderful writing style and the inability to convey his meaning in English as well as he has done in Croatian.
Stjepan Balog