Daedalus, June 22nd, 1997
Croatia achieved independence in 1992 after centuries of bondage and fragmentation. The Croats originally believed they could be free only within a common Balkan state. Events in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the Croats to overcome the Serbs in becoming a free state.
The fulfillment of a thousand-year dream was how Franjo Tudjman, leader of Croatia's independence struggle, described his country's recognition by the international community in 1992. The phrase was scarcely off his lips that year. It strikes a discordant note in most Western ears - too grandiloquent and vaguely reminisc...
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