KUMROVEC KUMROVEC, May 25 (Hina) - More than 4,000 people rallied in Kumrovec on Saturday to mark the birthday of former Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito.
KUMROVEC, May 25 (Hina) - More than 4,000 people rallied in Kumrovec
on Saturday to mark the birthday of former Yugoslavia's President
Josip Broz Tito. #L#
Up until 1990, Tito's birthday was celebrated as Youth Day.
The event was organised by the Josip Broz Tito Society and the
Alliance of Anti-Fascist Fighters of Croatia (SAB).
Josip Broz Tito Society president Tomislav Badovinac said it was
sad that over the last 12 years Croatia had forgotten that Tito had
been proud of the fact that he was a Croat.
Describing him as one of the greatest world statesmen and fighters
for peace, Badovinac said Tito had done more for Croats than anyone
before him.
"We hope the approach to Tito's work will change and that Croatia
will acknowledge at least those acts the democratic world has long
acknowledged as his," said Badovinac.
SAB president Ivan Fumic said that anti-fascists, like Tito, never
recognised hatred, wars and conflicts. Fumic slammed recent
messages of hatred uttered at the Bleiburg commemoration to
Croatia's WW2 victims and "right-wing representatives in
parliament."
"Smearing Tito's work points to a lack of tolerance for others'
opinions," said Fumic, adding that "by tolerating the opinion of
others we must prove that we are civilised and not the primitive
figures who wish to distance us from Europe."
Addresses were also made by representatives of anti-fascist
associations from Slovenia, Bosnia, and Yugoslavia.
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