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| General Description : | Serie: 188, Type: P, Stamps in serie: 4 Eugen Kvaternik, lawyer and politician is, with Ante Starčević, a co-founder of the Croatian Party of Rights. He shared his opinion that Croatia is an independent state which has nothing in common with the countries of the Habsburg monarchy except the ruler. He therefore attempted to raise the Croatian issue when he was an emigrant. Having lost his faith both in the foreign help and changes within the Monarchy, Kvaternik died in an attempt of an armed liberation uprising. The Rakovica uprising started in the village of Broćanac. On October 8, 1871, Kvaternik went to Rakovica where he published the Proclamation of the Croatian national government emphasizing the goal to liberate the country. In the meantime the Imperial army surrounded the area, while traitors appeared within Kvaternik’s ranks, setting an ambush and there he was killed. Ante Starčević was one of the Croatian politicians and ideologist who left a lasting imprint on the Croatian political life. He blamed Vienna and its politics for all Croatian difficulties. He saw independence as the only answer to the problem. He aimed at a comprehensive economic and cultural development, called for the harmony and reconciliation of all Croats, regardless of all social and religious differences, preaching the “right of us all to freedom, equality and brotherhood”. He was a supporter of democracy and an opponent to despotism, disorder and revolution. By his activity, consistency of views and strenght of character, Starčević remains one of the most outstanding personalities of modern Croatian history and is rightly named “father of the country”. In 1904, the brothers Antun and Stjepan Radić founded the Croatian Peasant Party. They tried to make the political life more democratic by including peasantry into it. In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, Radić and his party wanted the new state to be a confederation where Croatia would be a sovereign republic. They fought for the recognition of the Croatian national identity, for parliamentarism, for political and civil rights, preaching pacifism and democracy. They were strongly opposed to centralism and Greate Serbian hegemony. It was with this idea and as an answer to the draft Constitution of the Belgrade government that the “session of the Republican majority of the Civil Croatia” adopted the confederational Constitution of the Neutral Peasant Republic of Croatia. Radić, who was the undisputable leader of the Croatian people, died shortly after being mortally wounded in the Belgrad parliament. The assassination was organized by the Greate Serbian politicians and the court. Even before the Fascists took power in Italy, they broke into the headquarters of the Workers’ Chamber in Trieste in 1921, set fire to it and attacked the Union representative of the Raša mines. This sparkled a general strike of about two thousand miners in the Labin mines. They took hold of the mines, proclaimed a republic, set up commitees and organized “the red watch” as a protection from the Fascists, and, from March 2, managed the production themselves. A number of local farmers also took their side. The Italian authorities decided to crash the Labin Republic with armed forces. On April 8, the army attacked the miners and broke their resistance. |
| Face value | 3.60 Kuna |
| Catalog code (Michel) | HR 369 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number HR 289 Yvert et Tellier HR 344 Stanley Gibbons HR 429 AFA number HR 431 Croatian post Inc. HR 191 |
| Series | Croatian Political Milestones |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 350,000 |
| Issue date | 28/02/1996 |
| Designer | Nevenka Arbanas |
| Paper type | white 102g, gummed |
| Print technique | Multicoloured Offsetprint |
| Printed by | Zrinski - Čakovec |
| Perforation | 14, comb |
| Height | 36.00 mm |
| Width | 30.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
