14 Facts About SR Croatia

1.

Socialist Republic of Croatia, or SR Croatia, was a constituent republic and federated state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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2.

On November 29,1945, the Yugoslav Constituent Assembly held a session where it was decided that SR Croatia would be joined by five other republics in Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia.

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3.

SR Croatia was the last of the republics to make its own constitution, which was mostly the same as the federal and other republic constitutions.

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4.

The Constitution of the People's Republic of SR Croatia was adopted by the Constituent Parliament of the People's Republic of SR Croatia on January 18,1947.

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5.

Major constitutional amendments were approved in 1971, and in 1974 followed a new Constitution of the SR Croatia which emphasized Croatian statehood as a constituent republic of the SFRY.

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6.

The party that ruled the SR Croatia was the branch of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, the Communist Party of Croatia.

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7.

On 6 June 1946, the Supreme Court of the SR Croatia sentenced some of the leading officials of the NDH, including Slavko Kvaternik, Vladimir Kosak, Miroslav Navratil, Ivan Percevic, Mehmed Alajbegovic, Osman Kulenovic and others.

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8.

The communists made the most effort to crush nationalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and SR Croatia and tried to suppress the hatred between Croats, Serbs and Muslims, but even so, their greatest supporters in this process were local Serbs.

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9.

Public polemics in SR Croatia concerning the need to help poor and less developed regions became more frequent, as SR Croatia and Slovenia contributed about 60 percent of those funds.

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10.

In light of the changing political circumstances, their song "Mojoj majci", where the songwriter hailed the mother in the song as "the last rose of SR Croatia", was taken to heart by the fans on the location and many more elsewhere because of the expressed patriotism.

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11.

In February 1990, SR Croatia changed its constitutional system to a multi-party system.

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12.

The damage of industry in Yugoslavia was the worst in the whole of Europe, while the SR Croatia was among the most damaged republics of Yugoslavia, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

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13.

On 28 April 1948, when small shops and the majority of crafts had been nationalized, the private sector in the SR Croatia was liquidated to the end; out of 5,395 private shops, only 5 remained active.

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14.

SR Croatia was sentenced to sixteen years' imprisonment, but, in December 1951, he was released to house arrest at his home in Krasic near Jastrebarsko, where he died in 1960.

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