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views with Radovan Samardzˇić and Rear Admiral Jovan Popović, then one of
commanding officers of the military-naval district in Split, Croatia.
36. Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog vijeća Sabora Socijalističke
Republike Hrvatske, “Odnosi s vjerskim zajednicama u SR Hrvatskoj.”
37. The document reads: “Systematic and persistent efforts aimed to launch
a public debate on the Ustasˇa crimes committed in World War II against Serbs
and the persecution of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the territory of the socalled
Independent State of Croatia, whereas the entire Croatian people is
equated with the Ustasˇas, so that Orthodox zealots often speak about the “Croatian
crimes” against Serbs without specifying that some militant Ustasˇas committed
the crimes while thousands of Croats together with Serbs fought the
invaders and their domestic servants.” Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama
Izvrsˇnog viječa Sabora Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske, “Odnosi s vjerskim
zajednicama u SR Hrvatskoj.”
38. The office of the Serbian patriarchate in Belgrade claimed damages in
Yugoslav currency from the federal government estimated at 2,432,618,334
Yugoslav dinars after the war and later asked for 878,019,175 dinars more. The
office’s legal representative said that damages were given to the Serbian Orthodox
Church by the state. Stav, September 1990. In June 1989 the Holy Synod of the
Serbian Orthodox Church addressed separate requests for damages to the government
of the Socialist Republic of Croatia and the Socialist Republic of Bosnia-
Herzegovina regarding World War II crimes against the Serbian Orthodox
Church in the wartime Croatian state. See Pravoslavlje, 1 July 1989, and Nedjeljna
Dalmacija, 17 September 1989.
39. The Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia, newly built 64 churches, two
monasteries, 15 parish homes, and nine chapels, 25 churches, four chapels, 16
parish homes, and two church museums were renovated. The construction was
achieved with state financial assistance. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 17 September 1989.
40. Vjekoslav Perica, “Strategija Kaosa: Kako je Srpska pravoslavna crkva
pripremala teren za oruzˇane ustanke Srba u Hrvatskoj” (A strategy of chaos:
How the Serbian Orthodox Church prepared the ground for armed Serb uprisings
in Croatia), Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 10, 17, and 24 March 1991.
41. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 2 December 1990, p. 7.
42. In 1990 Duka became deputy minister for labor and social welfare. In an
interview with me, this Franciscan friar said that a large amount of the money
he raised for Tudjman in Germany would be allocated (according to a deal between
Tudjman and Duka) to social welfare programs and aid to the unemployed
affected by the economic transition from socialism to capitalism. By 1995, Duka
left the HDZ and became Tudjman’s critic. My interview with Duka appeared in
Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 2 December 1990, p. 7.
43. According to Josip Manolić, at one time a close aide to Tudjman, the
Yugoslav secret police kept track of all Tudjman’s activities abroad. Nedjeljna
Dalmacija, 30 December 1999.
44. Voice of America, Croatian Service, 28 April 2000.
45. See Yugoslavia—Death of a Nation, TV series, parts 1–4 (Discovery Channel,
BBC, and ORF, 1995).
46. “Hrvatska okupacijska zona u BiH,” interview with Ivo Komsˇić, president
of the Croatian Popular Council, Feral Tribune, 12 July 1999, pp. 38–39.
47. In Croatia, Tudjman’s Croatian Democratic Community won a relative
plurality of 43 percent and beat the former communists, who gained 34 percent.
The nationalistic Serbian Democratic Party, backed by the Church, won in the
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