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Ante Ciliga
>born in Istria, then part of Austria-Hungary
>kicked out of two high schools for his anti-Austrian beliefs
>becomes an influential communist agitator and participates in the creation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) and the Varaždin military mutiny from the same year
>is also a Croatian nationalist at the same time
>leads the first antifascist uprising in the world, the Proština rebellion (1921)
>moves to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but gets expelled due to his communism; settles in the USSR instead
>is critical of Stalin's regime and therefore gets sent to a Siberian gulag for five years
>becomes disillusioned with communism; meets Trotsky in Paris and briefly writes propaganda for him before abandoning Trotskyism as well
>moves back to Zagreb (now capital of Nazi puppet state NDH), where he's immediately arrested and sentenced to death (this decision was soon annulled); Ante Pavelić visits him in prison
>gets sent to Jasenovac concentration camp for one year; describes it as worse than the gulag
>upon release he becomes an Ustaša propagandist and NDH envoy living in Berlin
>the end of the war finds him in Germany, but he soon flees and lives the rest of his live as an anti-communist writer in exile
>although his wife was Jewish, he writes about da evil joos running the Jasenovac camp; these writings were later repeated by Franjo Tuđman who got called a Nazi for them
>moves to newly formed Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence and dies aged 94
>born in Istria, then part of Austria-Hungary
>kicked out of two high schools for his anti-Austrian beliefs
>becomes an influential communist agitator and participates in the creation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) and the Varaždin military mutiny from the same year
>is also a Croatian nationalist at the same time
>leads the first antifascist uprising in the world, the Proština rebellion (1921)
>moves to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but gets expelled due to his communism; settles in the USSR instead
>is critical of Stalin's regime and therefore gets sent to a Siberian gulag for five years
>becomes disillusioned with communism; meets Trotsky in Paris and briefly writes propaganda for him before abandoning Trotskyism as well
>moves back to Zagreb (now capital of Nazi puppet state NDH), where he's immediately arrested and sentenced to death (this decision was soon annulled); Ante Pavelić visits him in prison
>gets sent to Jasenovac concentration camp for one year; describes it as worse than the gulag
>upon release he becomes an Ustaša propagandist and NDH envoy living in Berlin
>the end of the war finds him in Germany, but he soon flees and lives the rest of his live as an anti-communist writer in exile
>although his wife was Jewish, he writes about da evil joos running the Jasenovac camp; these writings were later repeated by Franjo Tuđman who got called a Nazi for them
>moves to newly formed Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence and dies aged 94
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