Bruno Bušić

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Ante Bruno Bušić (6 October 1939 – 16 October 1978) was a Croatian writer and critic of the government of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was one of the best-known victims of UDBA (Yugoslav secret police) killings.

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Bušić was born in the village of Vinjani Donji near Imotski. By the time he enrolled in high school in Imotski, he was already involved in activities which communist authorities considered rebellious. In 1957, he joined a group called Tiho (silently, lit. - quietly) whose aim was to "fight for freedom, equality and the formation of a free Croatia based on democratic principles". It was at that time that the UDBA (Yugoslav secret police) began watching him. Bušić, along with his schoolmates who had also participated in Tiho, was expelled from school soon after. Two years later, the expelled students were allowed to return to school. Bušić went on to enrol in the University of Zagreb and earned a degree in economics in 1964. The following year, he got a job at the Institute for the History of the Workers' Movement in Croatia, which was run by former Yugoslav general and future Croatian president Franjo Tuđman. In 1966, he was sentenced to prison for his political views, but he had escaped to Vienna, Austria during the trial with co-convict Rudolf Arapović. At the behest of Tuđman, who still had great influence in Yugoslavia, Bušić returned to Zagreb and was not…Citește mai mult