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Franjo Tuđman
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It is not only others who are to blame for all our evils. Nor will in any circumstances only others shape our destiny.
— Source (1999)
Franjo Tuđman
Croatian politician, soldier, president and historian (1922–1999)
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Led Croatia from Yugoslav republic to independent state through a war that carved new borders and drove mass displacement. The ICTY found he shared in a joint criminal enterprise for ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, though it issued no conviction.
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Franjo Tuđman was born in Veliko Trgovišće in 1922 and fought with the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. After the war he rose to major general in the Yugoslav People's Army by 1960, then left the military to become a historian, earning a doctorate in 1965 and teaching at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences. He was imprisoned in 1972 for his role in the Croatian Spring reform movement and spent the late communist years in relative obscurity. In 1989 he founded the Croatian Democratic Union, which won Croatia's first parliamentary elections in 1990, making him president. He pushed th…
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Franjo Tuđman
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In this difficult moment and at a historical turning point, I call on you, brothers and sisters, to fulfill your sacred duty in defending the homeland.
— "Address to the Croatian people following the Serbian aggression against the Republic of Croatia" (5 October 1991)
Franjo Tuđman
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We live in an exciting and turbulent time. In a time that is filled with many openly present threats and insidious dangers.
— "Speech at the inaugural assembly of the Croatian Parliament" (30 May 1990)
Franjo Tuđman
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You can take my freedom, even my life, but not my thought, not my truth, not my contribution to the history of the people to which I belong.
— "Excerpts from his diary, written while in prison" (14 August 1984)
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