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FRANJO TUDJMAN, AT WAR WITH HISTORY; Croatia's President And a Past That's Shaping the Present
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Ethnic cleansing, mass executions, sectarian hatred and civil war
had so ravaged former Yugoslavia that on the spring morning when
villagers here discovered Stjepan and Olga Tudjman lying in pools of
blood on opposite sides of their living room, with a pistol between
them on the floor, there was neither means nor enthusiasm for a
proper investigation.
It was April 1946. What historians call the First Yugoslavia had
just been destroyed by war. The Second Yugoslavia, similarly fragile,
was about to take form across a landscape of graveyards.
Today the mysterious deaths of Croatian nationalists ...
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