Обговорення:Хорватська весна
In this movement:
- Croats wanted to get more rights, especially for their language, Croatian language, since its independence and development was oppressed. Therefore, this movement was not just limited only to Croatia, but also had impact in Bosnia and Herzegovina (where Croats are constitutional nation) and in autonomic province of Vojvodina (Serbia) (in which Croats were significant minority or even majority in some parts). For this reason, many persecuted persons were not just from Croatia, but also from other ex-Yugoslav republics.
- Croatia wanted more rights and autonomy, especially in the economy.
In the short period of liberalization (after the fall of Ranković, a greaterserbianist, Yugoslav type of Berija) before the suffocation of Croatian spring, many freedoms were achieved, Croatian scientists and media created works and spoke more freely and openly. With the eliminations of Croatian spring, many persons were imprisoned, forcely retired, tortured by police, fired from the job and for decades they had no possibility to reemploy themselves, moved from the political/economical/iuridical/educational functions (directors, military officers, judges, teachers, university teachers, academists) and neutralized with working some unsignificant work, disallowed to travel abroad, losing the right on public communiations, hounded by police and secret police, family members were also openly or discretely, many were forced to emigrate (but even in emigration were persecuted and killed by secret police). Many cultural societies and their branches were closed and canceled, many surviving ones lost the attribute "of Croats" (Хорватськ...), major and the oldest Croatian national cultural society (Matica hrvatska) was banned (after over a century of existence!) in the names etc... For almost two decades Croatia and Croats were forced to keep their mouths shut (to watch their mouth); a period known as "hrvatska šutnja" (šutnja is not "a silence", but "non-speaking").
Subject is large. Kubura 02:11, 4 серпня 2011 (UTC)