Activities of the Croatian Liberation Movement at the Congresses of the World Anti-Communist League from 1970 to 1975

Based on relevant literature, émigré press and unprocessed archival material, this paper analyses the hitherto unexplored activities of the Croatian Liberation Movement (CLM) at the congresses of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) from its membership in 1970 to the recognition of Croatia as a member nation in 1975. CLM focused its activities on familiarizing the international public with the Croatian question and its solution in the form of an independent Croatian state outside the Yugoslav framework, discrediting Yugoslavia, its communist system and dictatorship, and the policy of non-alignment. The key allies of the CLM were Ukrainian emigrants from the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN), through which they entered the WACL. The problem for the CLM was the Ustasha heritage, which then became a means of discrediting the WACL. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the research of the Cold War activities of Croatian political emigration (CPE) in international anti-communist organizations.