„Češi si vždy vybrali správnou stranu.” Rodinné generační vzpomínání krajanů v Chorvatsku a státní politika paměti. (Czech)

"The Czechs Always Chose the Right Side." Family generational remembering of expatriates in Croatia, and the state politics of memory. (English)

The Croatian society is still coping with traumatizing events (World War II and civil war) and memories of them. The politics of memory, articulated by Tudjman's strategy of generational and memory reconciliation of the society in the early 1990s, led to the relativization and even promotion of the pro-fascist Ustashe regime, and simultaneously to the marginalization and stigmatization of narratives relating to the role of national liberation struggle within multi-ethnic partisan movement. This also included members of local Czech minority. The study shows how - despite this - the narratives concerning the partisan resistance are still alive in family memory, and they form, through generational transmission, a value alternative to the contemporary nationally-oriented state ideology as well as to the cultural presentation of Czech minority. Family memory works as an autonomous "intimate space/area" of expatriates in Croatia, which is based on searching for a generational value continuities in the period of post-communist social uncertainties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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