Pregledni rad
Analysis of communist “treatment” of ideological non-sympathizers in the example of two Croatian Catholic intellectuals: Nikola Čolak and Mirko Vidović
Zrinka Podhraški Čizmek
orcid.org/0000-0003-0620-2108
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Splitu
Sažetak
The aim of this analysis is to find parallelisms between the testimonies of two Croatian Catholic intellectuals imprisoned in Yugoslavia. Nikola Čolak describes the period between 1945 and 1966 in his book Behind the Barbed Wire. Mirko Vidović gives testimony about the life of Croatia in Serbian-Communist Yugoslavia and presents his own experience between 1971 and 1976 in his book The Hidden Side of the Moon. The analysis also presents the records on Tito’s prisons, sees and “penetrates as deeply as possible into the mechanism of an inhuman practice of violence and tyranny, which operated beyond its own laws.” From these parallels the article draws the constant of communist behaviour towards political opponents, even if they were of non-militant character. Also, it proves that communism in those thirty years had developed and strengthened Stalinist systems and methods of dealing with the dissidents of all affiliations and that in the seventies a new generation of proselytes, raised in the new order, began to operate. The article presents not only the personal destinies of these two Croatian intellectuals, but also of all those who they met and whose stories they described in their books.
Ključne riječi
communism; Yugoslavia; Čolak; Vidović; Catholic intellectuals; trial; prison; camp; torture
Hrčak ID:
183755
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.6.2017.
Posjeta: 1.582 *