I stayed in the HOS until the day we were demobilized on 23-08-1992, Tanja had left before me, and now I actually had no idea what to do next, except I wanted to get to Tanja, with all my might! I don’t remember how but I went to Zagreb, where Tanja waited for me at…
In the last months of the Second World War and after the war, all of Europe was severely affected by its consequences. Yugoslavia was no exception. The intensity of the violence reached a new peak between the autumn of 1944 and the summer of 1945, when mass killings occurred across the country. However, the Yugoslav…
Ray van Linden was born in Roosendaal, Holland in 1968, the youngest of five children, which made him by default “the black sheep”. His father was a very renowned orthopedic shoemaker who died in 2001. His mother was also working in his fathers firm, as did all five children. Ray van Linden was also a…
Humanitarna akcija koja se odvija jednom godišnje prigodom koje se okupljaju mnogobrojni humanitarno raspoloženi ljudi održana je i u Hrvatskom katoličkom centru “Blacktown” u Sydneyu kojom prilikom je skupljeno $5796 dolara. Isti tekst donosimo i na engleskom. We would like to Thank everybody that came and supported this very special cause. We raised $5796 with…
Branding has been the buzz word for decades in the world of successful (and unsuccessful) marketing a product, constructing its reputation – upon which many things depend in life, to those that matter but it seems the same word has picked up on speed in the world of Croatian politics during the past few months….
Corruption is the abuse of high-level power that benefits the few at the expense of the many, and when corruption occurs on a grand scale it causes serious and widespread harm to individuals and society. The terrifying thought is that corruption on a grand scale often goes unpunished, often gets lost in an uneasy but nevertheless “accepted” as a…
In June 1945 the Partisans committed the biggest genocide against the Croatian people at Kocevski Rog (Slovenia). The liquidations were not a necessary evil, a mistake or a liquidation of the collaborators of the occupier; it was a planned genocide against humanity in the name of an ideology, in the name of the communist revolution….
Interview With Zvonko Milas – Government Office For Croats Outside The Republic Of Croatia D: According to the assessment of many in the diaspora the Government Office for Croats outside the Republic of Croatia, which you have been leading for several months now as State Secretary, has not proven very effective under the former Social…
International recognition of Croatia’s independence is one of the most important events in Croatia’s history and Croatia with its diaspora celebrate that 15 January 1992 event every year and so too this year. Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, in his HRT TV interview on 13 January 2017, leading up to the celebrations of that Day…
It is axiomatic that politics is the art of the possible, and moral considerations in government will reflect the ideology harboured by those who govern and those who wield power. As profusely as Croatia had bled in its Homeland War during 1990’s as it sought to secede from communist Yugoslavia and build freedom and democracy…
