{"id":27132,"date":"2023-11-21T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27132"},"modified":"2023-11-21T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T14:59:39","slug":"president-milanovic-at-presentation-of-the-book-progon-i-nacionalno-budenje-borba-za-demokratsku-hrvatsku-by-stjepan-mesic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-at-presentation-of-the-book-progon-i-nacionalno-budenje-borba-za-demokratsku-hrvatsku-by-stjepan-mesic\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 at Presentation of the Book \u201cProgon i nacionalno bu\u0111enje \u2013 Borba za demokratsku Hrvatsku\u201d by Stjepan Mesi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended today the presentation of the first part of the political autobiography of the former President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesi\u0107 \u201cProgon i nacionalno bu\u0111enje \u2013 Borba za demokratsku Hrvatsku\u201d [Persecution and national awakening \u2013 the struggle for a democratic Croatia]. \u201cCongratulations on a very serious job. This is a valuable book that no one was obliged to write, and you wrote it. Thank you,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking about the former President\u2019s political engagement, he recalled his words at the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Buzin in 2003, when \u2013 as the then President of the Republic \u2013 he concluded his speech with this message: \u201cYou will be better served by a Croatia that thinks for itself, than by a Croatia that is obedient.\u201d \u201cTwenty years later, I am proud to have listened to that. His entire career and mission revolve around that short leitmotif, which you must respect,\u201d said the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have read almost the entire book and I am not a complete stranger in his life, as far as facts are concerned, (although) not generationally. However, the maxim of the Topalovi\u0107 family from the movie \u201cMaratonci tr\u010de po\u010dasni krug\u201d [Marathon runners run a lap of honour] holds true for him: Hell will not be hard for those who knew you,\u201d joked President Milanovi\u0107, adding that Stjepan Mesi\u0107 had a difficult life, which is eventful still today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am now the same age as he was in 1991. He was then a man of my age and only then did his great career begin. Because, if it weren\u2019t for what happened later, which this book is mostly about, he would have remained an interesting, a more charming head of a small municipality with connections in Croatian political society, but whom the general public and the community would not know about. It was, and still is, a significant and successful career of uprightness and character in which I, as a politician, cannot say that I agreed with all the policies, but I did with most of them. If I hadn\u2019t, I wouldn\u2019t be here today,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 told those present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regarding Stjepan Mesi\u0107\u2019s book, the President said that it is worth reading, well-written and genuine, but that not everyone will like it. \u201cIt is a recipe for the continuation of this life of ours, to finally enter some kind of catharsis. Because, all these reconciliations that are being talked about are pointless from the perspective of my generation. My generation didn\u2019t even need to be reconciled, we weren\u2019t in conflict, we grew up normally. The earlier ones are, unfortunately, irreconcilable. We see this even today and these differences will never be wiped out, today they remain the focus of Croatian political discourse \u2013 Jasenovac, Bleiburg. My generation did not participate in that,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first part of the political autobiography \u201cProgon i nacionalno bu\u0111enje \u2013 Borba za demokratsku Hrvatsku,\u201d Stjepan Mesi\u0107 recounts the period from his birth in 1934 to the end of 1990, when the first government in an independent Croatia was established. The period from 1990 onwards will be covered by the author in the second part of his memoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from President Milanovi\u0107, the former President of the Republic of Slovenia Milan Ku\u010dan also spoke at the book presentation. Together with the author Stjepan Mesi\u0107, the book was also presented by the book editor Franjo Maleti\u0107 and reviewers Vlatko Cvrtila and Tvrtko Jakovina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Milanovi\u0107 was accompanied by the Adviser to the President of the Republic for Human Rights and Civil Society Melita Muli\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--GALLERY BLOCK-->\n<div class=\"c-lightbox-gallery js-lightbox\">\n                <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_1942-1024x683.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_1942-768x512.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2092-1024x652.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2092-768x489.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2135-1024x683.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2135-768x512.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2160-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2160-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2306-1024x651.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DSC_2306-768x488.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n        <\/div>\n<!--end GALLERY BLOCK-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Tomislav Bu\u0161ljeta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended today the presentation of the first part of the political autobiography of the former President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesi\u0107 \u201cProgon i nacionalno bu\u0111enje \u2013 Borba za demokratsku Hrvatsku\u201d [Persecution and national awakening \u2013 the struggle for a democratic Croatia]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27108,"template":"","news-cat":[12],"class_list":["post-27132","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-cat-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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