Talk:Mile Budak
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[edit] Whitewashing the real Budak's past
The article, as written, is miserable - written counting on people's naivety to buy it paying the declared face value for it.
Defenders claim he was an accomplished author who served as "Minister of Culture" of the Independent State of Croatia. Mile Budak was also Minister of Religion, Education and Cults, and his signature is at the bottom of some of the most infamous decrees of the Ustase regime, and provided the Ustase's ideological backbone as a Goebbels-style propagandist. Uttered that the goal of the Ustase regime was to "kill a third, expel a third, and convert a third" of the Serbian population. Also initialed the anti-Semitic measures introduced within days of the Ustase taking power in April, 1 Born in Sveti Rok (Saint Rocco) and trained as a lawyer. Recognized as a writer of middling originality and imagination, primarily from his poetry and short stories and later his novels such as The Hearth. Attacked by militants of the pro-Serb "Young Yugoslavia" organization in broad daylight in June 1934. The assault fractured his skull and shortly thereafter he went abroad, joining the Ustase.
Named doglavnik (deputy leader) of the NDH and placed in charge of preserving and translating Ustase ideology to Croats. His belief that Muslims and Croats were the same people who held different religions was accepted by most other Ustase leaders (though Serbs he considered "wandering beggars from the East whom the Turks brought along as servants and porters.") As the NDH's chief cultural figure, tried to persuade artists and writers to support the new regime with varying degrees of success. The great Croat novelist Miroslav Krleza lampooned Budak as "a minister of culture with a machine gun," and sculptor Ivan Mestrovic was imprisoned for several months after he came to Zagreb not to make busts of the poglavnik but to ask Budak for a passport out of the country.
Budak's position was made redundant once the Jewish and Roma problems in the NDH were "solved" by their extermination, and he was shuffled around to other positions, including Foreign Minister. Eventually fell out of favor following the internal strife within the NDH government involving the Kvaterniks. Made a trip to Rome and greatly impressed Ustase supporters at the Vatican. One of the few Ustase political leaders captured after the war and executed.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.18.16.251 (talk • contribs) 00:33, 13 January 2006
[edit] Citation added
The only reference cited above was http://www.pavelicpapers.com/documents/budak/. That page was part of an extremely well researched resource. Alas the whole website has been removed from the internet so I have deleted the reference to it from the above comment.
Budak's exposition of how the Ustaše regime in which he was a minister intended to deal with its Serb minority is well documented and is an important factor in determining that the regime's attempt to wipe out an ethnic group was premeditated - rendering the attempt genocidal within both the Lemkin and UN definitions. I have provided references and lifted the article's qualifying tags. In due course I will add references for some of the other content, all of which is likely to be significantly less controversial than the content I have already addressed.
I have modified Budak's ministerial title in a way that I hope need not be challenged. Sometimes it has been expressed as Minister for/of Education and Cults, and Minister of Education and Theology. The title I have given him fairly describes in English the scope of his ministerial department. Kirker 16:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fascist writer?
I'm going to delete "fascist" from the phrase "fascist polititician and writer" in the opening sentence. One problem is that it might be read as applying to both nouns. That ambiguity could be resolved by reversing the nouns, but I assume Jay Litman put them in their present order in recognition of their relative significance, and I support that. It could be argued that Budak was less a fascist a la Mussolini and more a Nazi a la Hitler. Anyway the reader has to go only a few words beyond my deletion to find that he was a clero-fascist - a term that seems to have been coined specifically to categorise Ustaše idealogy.Kirker 10:28, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
