Summary
Bogdan Krizman: Pavelić on the run
Before the reader is the final book of Krizman's tetralogy about the Ustasha movement, which our distinguished historian began with Pavelić's departure abroad in 1929, and ended with Pavelić's death in 1959. This, the fourth book, shows the second Ustaša emigration and proves how little the Ustaša movement learned from the historical defeat it experienced as a satellite regime that lasted four years. held in Croatia during the years of the war with the worst terror, under the protectorate of the patroness, and without seeking the consent of the Croatian people. The escape of Pavelić and the Ustasha from Zagreb before the victorious Yugoslav army is described, Pavelić's movement to a shelter in Austria, hiding in Italy, transfer to Argentina, Chile, and then to Madrid is described. Special attention is paid to the activities of the Ustasha leader in Argentina: the Ustasha gathering, journalistic activities, resignation from the Ustasha ranks, the filling of the government", the agreement with M. Stojadinović, the founding of the Croatian State Party and the Croatian Liberation Movement, Pavelić's split with Luburić, the assassination in 1957 and Pavelić's death in 1959. Like the previous ones, the fourth book is based on a wealth of documentation - this time mainly from emigrants. Scientific in methodology and selection documentation, journalistic in presentation, the book will undoubtedly experience the success of its predecessors.
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