ZAGREB, Dec 12 (Hina) - Franjo Tudjman, the first president of the independent Republic of Croatia, was a man who was predestined to have an important role in history, the president of the Croatian Cultural Society (Matica Hrvatska),
Josip Bratulic, said at a commemorative session held on Sunday. Tudjman has made the hundred-years-long hopes of Croats come true and changed the destinies of many individuals and peoples, he was the man who marked not only the Croatian but also the European and international history at the end of the millennium, Bratulic said. Tudjman had dreamt of Croatia when the idea of Croatia was pure fiction, Bratulic said, citing several statements from a speech Tudjman delivered on Croatia's independence and statehood at the society's assembly held in Krapina in 1971. Tudjman was then a member of the Society's steering committee. As a man and leader, he did not tolerate weakness in h
ZAGREB, Dec 12 (Hina) - Franjo Tudjman, the first president of the
independent Republic of Croatia, was a man who was predestined to
have an important role in history, the president of the Croatian
Cultural Society (Matica Hrvatska), Josip Bratulic, said at a
commemorative session held on Sunday.
Tudjman has made the hundred-years-long hopes of Croats come true
and changed the destinies of many individuals and peoples, he was
the man who marked not only the Croatian but also the European and
international history at the end of the millennium, Bratulic said.
Tudjman had dreamt of Croatia when the idea of Croatia was pure
fiction, Bratulic said, citing several statements from a speech
Tudjman delivered on Croatia's independence and statehood at the
society's assembly held in Krapina in 1971. Tudjman was then a
member of the Society's steering committee.
As a man and leader, he did not tolerate weakness in himself or
others, including his own illness, Bratulic said, adding the time
would prove that Tudjman was less a historian and more a politician
and statesman.
(hina) rml