BOOK "FRANJO TUDJMAN - UNFORGIVEN VICTORY" PRESENTED IN SPLIT

SPLIT, May 30 (Hina) - The book "Dr. Franjo Tudjman - An Unforgiven Victory", published by the Association for the Promotion of Croatian Identity and Prosperity on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the Republic of Croatia and the 81st anniversary of the first Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's birth, was presented in Split on Thursday evening. #L# The book is the proceedings of the symposium "Tudjmanism and de- Tudjmanisation", held in Zagreb on 7 December, 2002. According to Drago Simundza and Admiral Davor Domazet, "de- Tudjmanisation" denotes everything contrary to the centuries-old aspirations of the Croat people as well as attempts to "de- Croatise" the state. Presenting the publication, the two said Tudjman was the founder of the new Croatian state and as such would be remembered in history despite attempts at so-called "de-Tudjmanisation", whose ultimate goal they believe is to re-integrate Croatia in loser or closer associations of which it used to be part before its independence. Domazet claims that world powers do not want to acknowledge Croatia's victory and that such negation attempts had their roots in efforts by some international factors to stigmatise Croats as endemic nationalists and declare any idea related to Croatian statehood a criminal ideology. Domazet said that for Croats Tudjman was what Moses had been for the Jews. The association's president, Miroslav Tudjman, said the incumbent coalition authorities had brought into question almost everything established under the rule of the first Croatian president. He wondered why "the Croat people have let their fate be decided by those whom they had discarded in 1990 and who found sponsors among international globalists". (hina) rml sb