The true nature of communism as a pernicious ideology was once described by our Blessed Cardinal Stepinac:
“Woe to the world if the Catholic Church collapsed and kneeled before bloody communism. Life on earth would no longer make any sense! ” In that, he was wholeheartedly helped and encouraged by the then Pope Pius XII. The post-war years were extremely difficult. Tito offered Cardinal Stepinac money to separate the Catholic Church in Croatia from the Vatican and from the authority of the Holy See.
His answer was clear once more:
“The Catholic Church is not founded on Cardinal Stepinac, nor on any other man, but on Jesus Christ, whose vicar is Peter, the Holy Father.” Due to such a response and refusal, a rigged trial against Cardinal Stepinac began. The trial was not related to the Cardinal’s refusal to separate our Church from the Holy See. Instead, Cardinal was accused of “cooperating with the enemy during the war.” Our cardinal knew that a lack of courage in the face of an enraged crowd in the courtroom would be his defeat. But he went on to say,
“I can say to all the lies told here – my conscience is clear!” So their anger grew even greater. They mocked him, insulted him, and brought in witnesses who could not make a single statement in favor of the prosecution. Something similar happened to his Master, Jesus of Nazareth. There is an obvious parallel between him and his Master.
Communism is a false religion, and at the core of this totalitarian concept of the organization of society is lie and deception, violence, murder, and the abolition of the right to one’s own opinion. There was only the opinion of Marxism and Leninism, and that opinion is the greatest fantasy of the twentieth century. How will killing people (dissidents of this ideology) create any new society about which the ideologized communists constantly talked? A number of generations of people have been sacrificed, allegedly for the happiness of future generations.?!?
Through the state apparatus, the Communist Party managed the entire life in the country; the nationalization of large and small industrial plants, retail and wholesale trade, transport and services, and educational and other institutions, while the bureaucracy grew rapidly.
Private ownership of the means of production was abolished and all human and material resources were nationalized. The level of human rights in socialist Yugoslavia was 50%, which means that every other citizen of that state had no rights!
In socialist Yugoslavia, in 1971, students of the University of Zagreb, supported by numerous intellectuals and the then-party leadership organized a strike. That period is known as the Croatian Spring, some called it Maspok. Croatia demanded that the generated income be left in the republic that had generated it because it wanted to abolish overall Serbian domination.
This was followed by persecutions, imprisonment, arrests of people, and the removal of the party leadership in Croatia. Tito said, “We will clean Zagreb with a steel brush!” and “The Sava will stop flowing sooner than the Croats will get their state!”
The Sava did not stop flowing, and the Croats got their state. The truth won – in the blood and suffering of innocent people, in the courage of their defenders, but with a rosary in hand!
Born in 1953 in Bugojno, BiH. After graduating from high school, he came to study in Zagreb. At the religious education held for students in Frankopanska Street, near the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul, he meets Prof. Tomislav Ivančić, who then came from his studies in Rome, and remains with him in the religious Community with five more students. He spent the summer of 1975 with the Community in Davor, in the autumn of that year started publishing the magazine KORACI (STEPS, which is the predecessor of Hagio.hr), as a member of the editorial bord and the author of the editorial for the upcoming numbers. He has remained in Zagreb permanently, father of five children and, at the urge of Prof. Ivančić, founded his own business, and later a company. As a self-employed person for over thirty years of such work, he retires. He is
currently a member of the Hagio.hr editorial board.
