Croatian Far Right During Yugoslavia
At the end of World War II, the Communist authorities pursued a strict set of policies which could be deemed as a form of denazification, only more similar to the Soviet style than to the American style. People who collaborated with the Ustaše were often court-martialled at the end of the war, and the Bleiburg massacre was committed.
Long after the war was over, there continued to be trials against suspected collaborators. In the 1980s, Andrija Artuković was extradited by the US and prosecuted in SR Croatia where he died in a prison hospital.
The secret service exercised harsh control over citizens with links to the Ustaše or just Croatian nationalism. The UDBA continuously monitored Croatian diaspora, and was implicated in numerous assassinations, notably that of Bruno Bušić in 1978.
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