ZAGREB, June 13 (Hina) - The "Glas Koncila" Catholic weekly ran an text in its newest issue headlined "Is Communism Returning?", warning that transitional countries have not had a radical elimination of the spirit, methods and symbols
of the totalitarian regime. The former nazi and fascist societies fought very radically against the spirit, methods and symbols of the former totalitarian orders, while such a radical elimination did not occur in transitional countries after the fall of communism, so the fear that the communist totalitarian order could return is founded, the weekly writes. Glas Koncila holds that the Croatian democratic public failed the test with regards gatherings in Kumrovec on May 25, on the day when the birthday of president Josip Broz Tito was celebrated in the former Yugoslavia. In Kumrovec (the birth place of Josip Broz), people not only celebrated a historic figure, but also glorifi
ZAGREB, June 13 (Hina) - The "Glas Koncila" Catholic weekly ran an
text in its newest issue headlined "Is Communism Returning?",
warning that transitional countries have not had a radical
elimination of the spirit, methods and symbols of the totalitarian
regime.
The former nazi and fascist societies fought very radically against
the spirit, methods and symbols of the former totalitarian orders,
while such a radical elimination did not occur in transitional
countries after the fall of communism, so the fear that the
communist totalitarian order could return is founded, the weekly
writes.
Glas Koncila holds that the Croatian democratic public failed the
test with regards gatherings in Kumrovec on May 25, on the day when
the birthday of president Josip Broz Tito was celebrated in the
former Yugoslavia.
In Kumrovec (the birth place of Josip Broz), people not only
celebrated a historic figure, but also glorified his 'historic way'
as something absolute, which is what caused the consternation of
those who care for true democracy.
"As Ustashi symbols were compromised among the Croatian people, so
were communist symbols, and both are equally unwanted, that is to
say, if this is not so in Croatia, then there is a real danger of the
wheels of history spinning back," the paper writes.
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