 We live in time of past truth. This is the first thing. And you know that Oxford Dictionary included that word into dictionary recently this year. And because of an enormous circulation of that word, before it meant something else. It means the truth after the actual event. Today, it penetrates it everywhere. And it means that truth could be distorted, that it doesn't matter facts. Do not matter, but feelings are hurt feelings or whatever. So and of course, technology helps a lot to that. So today, you can find on internet, I mean people talking about Hegel and not being philosophers, but cooks, or the people teaching you how to do a makeup and not being a cosmeticians. So what happened? And I noticed that at the beginning of this new Croatia that the keyword is in fact which nobody ever mentioned is deprofessionalization. That is what happened when Tudjman came into power in Croatia and that's what happened when Milosevic came into power in Serbia. So now, after so many years, what does it mean deprofessionalization? That means that let's say all the judges who were Serbs in Croatia, they were fired. All journalists who were Serbs or who were Yugoslavs or were concerned to be anti-creation, this and that, they were fired. Or all the professors at the university who didn't support creation nationalistic politics, they were fired. So journalists, radio people, writers, intellectuals, professors, even doctors who were Serbs in hospitals, they were fired. And now, after 25 years, we are in fact confronted with the results that I, not being a politician, not being a political scientist, not being anthropologist, not being a sociologist, I became a sort of an expert on nationalism. I must say that why I so heavily took all that case of all of Yugoslavia and everything is because it is fair to say that I'm post-war child. I was born in 1949. And that means that somehow all my generation it grew in the shadow of Second World War. That also means that somehow we were induced the coordinates of good and evil. In that respect, evil were fascists and good were anti-fascists. Good was my father because he was 17 when he joined Tito's partisans. And bad were enemies and they were Germans. So that's how it was very simple to sort of live in that polarized world where we sort of knew what is good and what is bad. Today, children, they do not wear you. Today, children, they don't know the difference in between image of Mickey Mouse and image of Hitler anymore. They don't know what is what. I picked somehow the ideological package of socialist Yugoslavia. And that ideological package was sort of pretty simple. The main formula was that we should cherish brotherhood and unity like an apple of our eye. That's how I learned when I was very young. What does it mean, apple of an eye? And that was apparently the sentence slogan belongs to Tito. They say also it was education was something which was a crucial part of that package, ideological package. And it was even sort of knowledge and knowledge that was the crucial thing. And I remember how my mother would always say for somebody that he studied in Sorbonne. And that was something which was the highest thing one could imagine. And when I was a little girl, I promised myself that I would study in Sobron because I misspell it. So to Sobron, and then that I would, of course, be famous like Minou Drué. You don't know who Minou Drué was. That was a little girl. She was 10 when she published her first book. And she was globally well known, but then she disappeared. And of course later on came some other idols like they were apparently all connected with France. And I didn't have anything to do with France. That I will one day live on Mansart so that I will study at Sobron and that I will have a boyfriend as ugly and as smart as Jean-Paul Sartre. I also studied comparative literature and Russian language and literature. Russian language and literature not because Yugoslavia were forced to learn Russian language the opposite because we were enemies. So I studied it because I was very much interested in Russian avant-garde. And I studied that. And I also, I must admit that my critics in Croatia would call pretty clumsily like nationally color blind. I really, as my parents never, ever mentioned such things, I would always, in all my documents, I would declare myself as Yugoslav because my father was a Yugoslav. And my mother, although she never denied her Bulgarian family, I mean she was Yugoslav too. So somehow I didn't have that problem of self-positioning. And yes, it was for the first time I have heard such stories when somebody else would define me as Croatian. Or in 1971, during the Croatian Spring, which was the political rehearsal, what will come 20 years later in 1991. So then people would ask me, who am I? And I would be surprised hearing when I said that I'm a Yugoslav. Then my friends would say, yeah, but all the Serbs in Croatia would declare themselves Yugoslav. Nevertheless, I didn't pay attention. I didn't know what does it mean. I also, I must admit that many people would tell you, from being from former Yugoslavia, that they knew things would happen. Oh, I always knew that we are going to have a new war or something like that. I didn't. I admit honestly, I didn't. Simply because I was rational. And as we know, I mean fascism, one of characteristics, according to Umberto Eco, of fascism is irrationality. So my rational view was that people are not so crazy that they are going to kill each other or go into the war or anything just because of politics that things could be solved in a civilized manner. But nevertheless, I was wrong. And in 1991, when all of that started, I was simply appalled. I was also invited in September of 1991 to come to Amsterdam because my books were published here. And I used a little moment when there was a ceasefire and although banks were closed, and I mean, also embassies were closed, for visa airports were closed, I took a train and I came to Amsterdam. Instead of one week, I spent in Amsterdam three weeks and I managed to get my American visa because the next year, starting from January in 1982, I was supposed to teach one semester at Wesleyan University, Connecticut in the States. So when I came back to Zagreb, things were changed. All my friends, I remember clearly, we laughed to such figures like Milošević and Tudjman. Suddenly, nobody laughed and things became quite serious and I could see this, not even polarization, but homogenization and how people became one collective body. And that was this language today mentioned. We, suddenly, I mean, it was not my friend Nenad or my friend Maya, but they would declare themselves as we, we crots, OK? And then I wrote, because at that time it was a souvenir, I mean, a new creation state was producing all sorts of things, ideology, most of all, but also with the ideology souvenirs, that the ideology should be somehow swallowed in a sweeter manner. So at that time, in Croatia, you could find the souvenirs, tins, cans, very much resembling Coca-Cola cans. And they had creation quarterfarms there. And then it said, it was a slogan on those, they were empty cans, souvenir cans. And it said, clean creation air. And I wrote a little essay about that, about Mr. Clean. And I just counted what Mr. Clean is cleaning in Croatia, was cleaning at the very beginning in the year of 1992. So these things were obvious. I mean, to everybody, but nobody really found them appalling or shocking. So libraries were cleaned of books, books who were found in the garbage or even books who were burnt, because we had that too, in the year of 1992, 1993, and so, book ozit, book ozite, that according to the instructions of then minister of culture, all the libraries in Croatia should be reorganized, okay? Meaning that books in Cyrillic letters, that books written by Serbs, books written by communists, books written by sympathizers of Yugoslavia, books written by William Shakespeare in Cyrillic letters, or translated by Serbian translator, out, out, out. Teachers would participate in that too. The librarians would participate in that too. My books were found on the garbage too. According to the reports of some journalists. And somebody even suggested that every book written by a Croatian, pure Croatian author, should have a little sign, a traditional Croatian plethora. So that in, of course, in colors of Croatian flag, that every book should be marked by that. So that from the first sight you should know who are Croods and who are the rest, Shakespeare's and so, okay? So what else was cleaned? Apart from the books, everything, school books, books for the universities, organizations, institutions, people got fired, as I told you at the beginning. So that was cleaned. And even at that time there was something called spiritual renewal, which simply meant that Croatia, as one body, as we, as one collective, should become what purified. What does it mean purified? It meant to get rid of all communists, socialists, Yugoslavia, multicultural, whatever ideas, okay? The great architect of Croatian state, Franjo Tudjman, together with Milosevic, I mean, I'm taking as an example Croatia just because it is portable, it's small and transparent and I know it. So for me, it's not a state or these are not the people but this is example. I could take any other but this is the one I know the best, okay? So that means that architect of Croatian state, Franjo Tudjman, he totally relied on independent state of Croatia during the Second World War when Croatia was a Nazi puppet state, okay? With everything one Nazi state should have, with its policy, culture, ideology and concentration camps for Jews, Serbs, Romans and so forth. Including language, institutions, ideology, even what was returned, even a symbols like the same court of arms, the same flags, the same money and the same name for the money. Many words from this newly invented for the purposes of Nazi state of Croatia were returned in new Croatia in 1991. They penetrated into the language and of course the major thing is the restoration of history. So good guys, partisans, they should be banned and deleted. Yugoslavia deleted totally and prohibited and what should be resurrected as a value and as a tradition is Croatian Nazi puppet state. So the story about restoration, it lasts already quarter of century, it lasts 25 years. Because Croatia became independent in 1981, we are today 2016, so it is exactly quarter of century.