Letter to Miroslav Šimić in MOSTAR

Mile Boban, Texas, May 23, 1988.

Dear neighbor,

I received your letter that you sent me about my brother Rafa last summer, as well as materials about the trial of Dr. Andrija Artuković and newspaper clippings regarding the spread of ideas about a third Yugoslavia. It means that there are those among you who are against both the first monarchist and the second communist Yugoslavia, that is, against you, and that they are – supposedly – for a better and more democratic Yugoslavia. In other words, it is not only Croatian emigration that is against Yugoslavia, but many others that you meet daily are also against it. Therein lies the core of the problem, which will not be solved by international political and diplomatic circles, nor by the billions and billions of debts owed to foreign countries by Yugoslavia.

You certainly would not have sent me that material if you were not tormented by the same miseries that tormented all those Croats in the past who wanted to keep the name of our nation from dying out, as our national fiddler Željko Šimić said about your Koljinović Andrijica Šimić:

“So that the name of that hero does not die,
because everyone in our house knows him”.

I divided your letter into 25 parts so that I could respond to it as expediently as possible.

1. You read your letter: “I have no intention of engaging in dialogue with members of terrorist organizations (HNO, HDP, etc.)…” The organizations you belong to and the job you occupy dictate that you write like this, but not think like that. I say this because our problem lies within us and we must and should solve it ourselves. For this purpose, you sent me a bracelet of newspaper clippings and feuilletons of the Udba writer Đorđe Ličina about the trial of dr. A. Artuković, so that I could better prepare for the joint dialogue. And as for the terrorist label for Croatian National Resistance HNO ., and HDP (Croatian Nationalist Movement) and other Croatian organizations, I am not so naive as to demand from you that from the position you occupy in Udba, you praise and celebrate those who are for the Croatian State , which is the negation of every Yugoslav state-building concept. That’s why I understand you and agree with you in this matter.

2. In my letter, I addressed you as “You” and inadvertently created a distance between the two of us. You brought me closer to you by addressing me as “You” and thereby greatly reduced the political, ideological, social and Croatian differences and distances, which – if there were and if they existed – are not your product or mine, but the product of those who oppress the libertarians aspirations of other nations, and Yugoslavia is among them in the first place. I honestly admit that I agree with you here as well.

3. You are surprised that I, as a mature man, have not yet realized that I am living in delusion, you write to me in your letter. Hitler, who as an Austrian worked and died for Germany, and Tito, who as a Croat worked and died for Yugoslavia, lived in delusion. Therefore, it is not surprising that there was a great similarity between them. The first one had its own youth, which had its own “relay”, i.e. Hitler’s relay. With his policy, Hitler managed to devastate Germany with Western bombs and create two, one East and one West Germany, from one. Tito also had his youth and hers, i.e. Tito’s “relay”, modeled after Adolf Hitler. With his anti-Croatian policy, Tito managed to destroy the existing Croatian State and turn it into nothing. Tito will destroy his, everyone’s and the last Yugoslavia with Western loans and interest. There is no doubt about that, as fiddler Željko Šimić says in the song: Stabilization and dinar. If you thought that I was living in a delusion because I live in America, which I “expect” to help Croats in our legitimate demands, then I agree with you. Only the truth will help us, and the people should be told the truth and then you will help the people. That is why I am fighting for Your people and my people to learn the truth, which I am neither ashamed of nor afraid of. In the truth there is salvation!

4. You supported your letter with “…as our elders say…” You must have meant their just and wise advice. Our elders also say about those who are always bragging: Strength breaks and rust destroys, which can literally be applied to the Yugoslav force, which breaks from great power and rust from internal crisis. You like to use old sayings like I do. So we agree on that too.

5. I like your word “pržun” thinking of me and all those Croats who testified for Croatia for their national and political ideals in prison. It will not be out of place to mention that all the people with great and progressive ideas and broad views were in the “pržun” , from which they spread their: religious, political, ideological, philosophical and national ideas: Saint John the Baptist, St. Paul, St. Nikola Tavelić, the future Croatian saint Alojzija Stepinac, Your koljenović Andrijica Šimić, with whom our

people and our entire region, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pavelić, Tito, Andrija Artuković, Hebrang, Bruno and Zvonko Bušić and many others. You have no idea how much you have honored me by including me among those who became “BIG” through prison, and you follow one of the above, which in a figurative sense would mean that at a given moment you would also follow me. And following my idea means: having your own pride, your own identity, your own national state, your own economy, your own freedom, your own peace and well-being, your own upbringing, your own future, your own justice and equality, your own pleasure in your earnings, your own prosperity and your own the standard of living on a high scale, its truth and its virtues. Thank you and as you can see we agree here as well.

6. As for the people of the SFRY, that they will defend their freedom, these peoples proved that in April 1941, when they all started fighting for their own and in a few days they dismembered Yugoslavia into national natural particles. Those nations will prove it again at the first opportunity. Believing in the disintegration of Yugoslavia is not a struggle against the SFRY of the people, but to perceive the reality that these peoples of the SFRY have shaped over the centuries, each one individually. And at the expense of the international diplomatic and political game, it has been proven in the last 70 years that the peoples of SFRY do not want to give up their own shaping. And I appreciate that! If the peoples of the SFRY value it as well, as you say, then I have to admit that we agree here again.

7. I don’t need to be convinced because I am convinced “…that my friends from Hrbov (Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood) and from Luburić…” Members of the Croatian National Resistance founded by Ivan Planina in 1944. Croatian general Maks Luburić.) inserted in 1972. to Croatia with the intention not to start an uprising, but to raise the morale of the Croatian people, which had faded after the arrest, imprisonment and persecution of the Croatian communist leadership in December 1971, better known by the name “Karađorđevo”. They proved with their young lives that they succeeded in this, and with their courage they became RAMBO in the eyes of young Croatians. You agree that a film is made about them, and films are only made about heroes, not cowards. That’s why I also look at how I would be portrayed nationally if someone wanted to make a film about Croatian nationalists in Croatian political emigration in fifty or a hundred years. For sure, no one could classify me as cowards, freaks and informers. We both agree that a film should be made about them.

8. “…You know, Milan, how they fared…” referring to the people of Bugoj. They went through as they had agreed: Died for Croatia! and not for this or that regime, this or that man, this or that ideology. The purpose of human life is determined: to live selfishly for oneself like a hermit in the desert and die for one’s own purpose like highway robbers who die in robbery to get rich, or to live for the people, for the community, for which it is worth fighting and even one’s life give. The people of Bugojno chose the more famous, the more honorable, and proved that their ideal is not life but Motherland Croatia! GLORY TO THEM! Without them, it will not be possible to write future Croatian history, nor will it be possible to keep silent about their names and their work. You and I agree on that.

9. I am glad that you think as I do when you say “…that there are a large number of virtuous Croats living all over the world…” I wrote in “Letter to my Neighbors” that we Croats are scattered around the world like Jews. And as a virtuous people, no force will be able to destroy us, regardless of someone’s wishes. The Jews waited and welcomed. Croats will wait and they will welcome. You love the honesty of Croats as much as I do, that is, we agree on this point as well.

10. Those who “are not filled with crazy ideas like you and come to their native land without any problems…” do not make history, because they are not asked to do so. They are a part of our Croatian nation that they did not run away from, like me and many others. We escaped from Yugoslavia for the sake of Yugoslavia, not from Croatia for the sake of Croatia. They are the link between the homeland and the Croatian political state-building emigration, and we are the Ambassadors of Croatia in the foreign world. We respect each other, help and need each other. Every year and from year to year there are more and more of them who visit their native land, as you say “your native land”, which truly means: if I had to leave my homeland because of Yugoslav pressure, misery and poverty, I will not leave it because of a comfortable life and forget the unlimited freedoms in the west. That’s why I understand you completely and I take seriously your concern for those honest Croats who do not intend to return to their native land. That’s why we both have to work on it so that we regain the trust of those Croats who don’t want to return because of fear and life insecurity. So, you are for the return of our Croatian people, as am I. And here we agree.

11. I’m glad you encourage me to ask my brother Rafa about “… enjoying freedom…”, which I did. Everyone experiences freedom in their own personal way, including my brother Rafo. A prisoner in prison is so free that he has to get up at a certain time, sit down in a designated place, eat what he is given, do what he is commanded, go to bed when he is commanded, etc. He, the prisoner, considers this his freedom within closed walls. Dear neighbor, I wouldn’t be honest if I didn’t briefly tell you what my brother Rafo told me.

At my request, he went to Mostar, handed you my letter and some other things, greeted you as well as your colleagues in the office. The meeting was friendly and full of enthusiasm until you started making noise and shouting. My brother Rafo (1944-2004), as a smart man full of Western education, did not want to oppose you or fight back with noise. He calmly and calmly answered the questions. He did not lie or lay the blame on others, as many do, who forcibly visit you, in order to justify themselves and protect themselves from Croatia. The only thing I reproached and objected to my brother was that he too should have shouted and shouted and cursed, and when he left their office, he should have gone to the first and nearest church and made a nice confession there. Your colleagues warned you to calm down, to which you defiantly went out and my brother Rafo never met or saw you again. Maybe it was a police tactic, I’m just saying maybe, or your freedom over a neighbor and former schoolmate, in order to ingratiate yourself with your bosses. Your colleagues in the office apologized to my brother because of you and said that they send the educated and smart ones to the field, and the war-weary ones, from the war, rude and stupid, to send them to the fights to compromise them as much as possible.

The second and other meetings were very questioning but also friendly, all in the style of “kindness”. He was questioned mostly because of the date on the letter, which is June 21, and my brother came there on June 11. My brother Rafo couldn’t answer that because he didn’t know. I deliberately put the date on June 21 in order to give importance to point 11 of my program that I sent in “LETTER TO MY NEIGHBORS”, which really meant the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BUGOJAN ACTION.

Police methods, intimidation and those magic words: we know everything, they are not unknown to me. All the police in the world use psychological methods, which is equated with terrorism. It would be foolish to believe that the Yugoslav police do not use international police psychological methods of intimidation. That’s why I fully understood Your and Your colleagues’ actions towards my brother Rafa. And even more so when one of Your colleagues escorted him to the door on his way out and said to him: “Greet Your brother and tell him that we agree with what he writes, but Sarajevo does not agree, and you know that we are subject to Sarajevo and he to those in Belgrade”. Soon, when the Croats will have their own state, you and your colleagues will continue to remain in government positions for the preservation of the state, in this case the Croatian State, because you know from experience how it is done and how to screw people up. So we agree on this point as well.

12. As for the contempt you speak of, that is a matter of personal taste. American politics from Washington despise the American Indian from the state of South Dakota, Mr. Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison since 1975. for his Indian feelings. The Washington government declared him a terrorist, and Russian radio from Moscow called him a freedom fighter and granted him political asylum on August 19 last year, if the Washington government wants to release him. In the same way, Yugoslavia treats its political opponents in the same way, calling them all sorts of names, etc. If you were thinking of the contempt that Yugoslavia attaches to every honest Croat, especially a patriot like me and many others, then I agree with you. .

13. The natural rule is that no one fights for the grave, which you mention in your letter to me “… and that your closest ones won’t even know about your grave…” But that’s why everyone fights for life and many succeed and many fail again. We have more or less succeeded in emigrating, and with God’s help we will succeed in getting our graves known. In point two of this letter, I mentioned how we got closer to each other, so I’m not surprised that you care whether my grave will be known or not. But be assured that there will not be an inscription on my grave: Was and is not, but our Croatian national coat of arms, which will clearly testify to my Croatian origin. In that context, you wanted to say that, and that’s why I agree with you.

(I found it appropriate to include this picture with this description from a cemetery in the capital of Texas, Austin, where my son-in-law, Bruce Tschosik, husband of my daughter Sophie Boban, married Tschosik, is buried. Mile Boban, Austin, Texas April 20, 2023)

14. You write to me “…It’s really sad, but you didn’t even deserve anything else…” thinking about my grave, whose whereabouts will never be known. Every man will earn as much as he invests. The American Nobel laureate for PEACE, the late Martin Luther King Jr. (1961), said among other things: “A man who won’t die for something, is not fit to live”. Translated into Croatian: A man who does not want to die for something is not worthy of life. In almost other words, they would tell us that a soldier who has no ambition to be a general one day will never be a good soldier. It’s the same with me. My mother gave birth to me as a Croat and that is her merit. It is my merit to prove that I am Croatian, and if I fail in proving that, it means that I deserved to die for something, that is, to die as a good Croat whose grave will always be known. If such circumstances were such that my grave would not be known, then it is more than “sad”, as you said about me, and I completely agree with you.

15. “…I would like you to be able to hear these former neighbors and friends of yours to whom you wrote some letters, what they think about you and others like you…” My former neighbors and friends are for me my lifelong neighbors and friends. In order not to disappoint you, one of our neighbors literally writes to me:

“Dear Milan! Wherever you are and whatever happens to you, know that I love you!” Your neighbor.

I am sorry that in order to protect her safety I cannot send you a copy of her letter. That is why I firmly believe that the time will soon come when I will be able to show you all the correspondence between me and our neighbors. Then you would wonder what my neighbors write to me. And the mentioned letter is full of concerns, about which I will write to you later. But if you were thinking of those neighbors who left God, their people and Croatia a long time ago, then I agree with you, because neither have I lost anything because of them, nor will others gain anything because of them.

16. “…it would only be clear to you to what low branches you have fallen and if you “enjoy the reputation” of an ordinary Ustasha terrorist…” The word “terrorism” was mentioned for the first time during the French Revolution (1789-1799) when Maximilien Robespierre was forcibly and terrorized the citizens of Paris to watch the execution of his political opponents. Those execution sites had such a psychological impact on the Parisians that they called Roberspierre’s violence terrorism. As far as I know, no country in the world had a law against terrorism before the Second World War. Many countries lumped every wrongdoing and violence into “crime”, so that highway robbers (from Sicily and elsewhere), bank robberies, rape of women, bar fights and murders, political and national struggle, were all put in the same basket. The League of Nations in Geneva (1932-1933) for the first time took into consideration the difference between the aforementioned acts and misdemeanors. This was done by the League under pressure from Hungary, which was accused by the then Yugoslav government of the criminal act of allowing the Ustaše Movement to operate freely on Janko Pusta. Hungary defended itself that it allowed political and national activity to a Croatian organization that has its own laws and its own right for the national struggle. Thus, the Lič Uprising of 1932. became a national-political-revolutionary Uprising, not as Belgrade wanted to portray it. That is why the Bugojan Uprising has its own revolutionary-political and national character.

The gray book published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NDH in 1942, which shows Chetnik-partisan crimes against the unprotected Croatian population in Eastern Bosnia, does not mention a single word of terrorism, but of crime. I do not want to minimize or justify offenses that deserve punishment. At the trial of His Exemplary Archbishop Alojzija Stepinac (1946) in Zagreb, there was also not a word about terrorism. See the book: “The Trial” – Lisak, Stepinac, Šalić and the Company, Ustaša-Crusader Criminals and Their Helpers,” and you will see for yourself that Comrade Jakov Blažević, who was so full of everything that smelled of Croatia, could not put he put “terrorists” on the front page instead of criminals, which was a reflection of that time. If he were to write such and such a book today, he would undoubtedly include the word “terrorist”.

When in self-defense Miro Barešić killed Yugoslav Ambassador Vladimir Rolović in Sweden on April 7, 1971, Swedish law could not charge Miro Barešić with a terrorist act, because at that time Sweden did not have a law on terrorism. She introduced the law on terrorism sometime in 1975, and Mira’s murder was in 1971. So, if Mati Gubac, Zrinski and Frankopani, Eugen Kvaternik Rakovacki and others from their era cannot be attributed a terrorist act, in what sense can it be attributed to the Ustashas and me, who was never an Ustashas. Maybe according to the taste of some scribbler Stipe Jolić, who in his sequels in “Arena” brings under the title: “…How the Yugoslavs conquered the Wild West, fleeing poverty in their homeland and how they changed the history of America…” The events in his sequels are hundreds or more older years, i.e. the era when Yugoslavia was nowhere to be found. In some places, it would have been more accurate if he had written that they were the Austro-Hungarians, because our people of that time traveled to a foreign world and to this country, America, under those passengers. This way, his sequels lose their seriousness because he lied right at the beginning. So some scribbler, Miodrag Djurić writes in the Arena on the occasion of the death of Dr. Andrija Artuković. With his “fierceness” he mixed things up so quickly that you can’t figure out what’s true and what’s a lie. I read that description several times to see if I could classify it somewhere, at least in a little novel, but, unfortunately, I couldn’t, simply because all novels have an opponent, and in his article there is no one but Artuković. What I wanted to say with this is that even in hatred, one should rule with sportsmanship, and not according to the one: hit him, your mother did not give birth to him. I believe that you are for FAIR PLAY just like me. That’s why I agree with you on this point as well.

17 . “…a few years ago, the American authorities (and) closed them down…” Native American Indians used to say: “Only a dead Indian is a good Indian.” I don’t know how it would sound to you and your like-minded people if I were to compare it to: “Who Washington and Belgrade imprison for political and national struggle, he needs no better testimony than this that he is an honest man, a good patriot and an even better Croat.”

I have my certificate issued to me in New York by the US Supreme Court that I am a good and honest citizen of this country of America. This testimony is made of American paper, like their dollar, in which Yugoslavia sees its salvation and in which it believes, so I see no reason why not to believe my testimony that I am an honest man. I know, Miroslav, that you have a testimony as a teacher and that you believe in it. Well, I also believe in your testimony, which means that you should also believe in my testimony, so that we completely agree on this as well.

18. “…I don’t know why you sent me the theses of the HDP…” The theses of the Croatian Nationalist Movement are of a national-political nature, and you are the one who deals with both, because you are in such a service, etc. I thought that you are an adequate person to study these theses and that, if possible, give your personal remarks, because it concerns us all. We must not bury our heads in the sand like an ostrich and claim that we see nothing and that problems do not exist. Now, Miroslav, you won’t say that we in the diaspora live by ideals and that you live ideally in your homeland. That would be lying to yourself. I believe that You agree with this, because otherwise our people would not be leaving their country to this day in search of a better life, if there was an ideal life there. So, as you can see, we agree on this point as well.

19. “…You are always late. Your friends sent it to me much earlier…” It’s not so much about whether I’m early or late as it’s about you getting good and honest material in your hands. You know how to read and you have a developed idea, which is good, because a man without an idea is a man without a head. Since you have both an idea and a head, read and exert yourself so that you can draw up an indictment against those who wrote those theses and those who represent those theses. I am in favor of these theses, they just need to be supplemented and perfected. Just, Miroslav, be FER and submit in a sporting manner if nothing can be found to be incriminated in these theses. You agree that theses should be subjected to analysis. I also agree, i.e. we both agree.

20. “…so I’m sending you double plus Your daughter’s letter…” My daughter Iva/Drina was born in this country and is a citizen of this country. She is so smart and educated that she finished two classes twice in one year. She cannot be sold candle horns. I am her father and colleague and as such I am free to talk to her about everything, because she teaches me and not me her. That is why she is familiar with all my problems and the sufferings of the Croatian people. On my wish for her to go with her younger brothers to visit her father’s hometown, she expressed great concern and fear. When asked why?, she replied that the entire American press would write about it, two governments would fight over me, if anything happened to me. When I return, all my male and female schoolmates will look at me with a certain amount of reserve. Well, that’s why she wrote a letter to the American government in Washington and asked for protection from her government, so that it wouldn’t happen to her like Australian citizen Dragoljub Pantelić, who was convicted in Šabac last year only because he was an ordinary member of a Serbian national organization in Australia.

If you, Miroslav, and your colleagues are troubled by the content of my daughter Iva/Drina’s letter to the American government, you can prove by your actions when she comes there to visit, that she was wrong. If you don’t cause problems for her like you did Fr. To Šimun Čorić last year, then I, Miroslav, assure you that my daughter Iva/Drina will change her original opinion about you; but mine remains unchanged. She agrees that nothing ugly and unpleasant happens to her. You also agree with that and I agree. Here, involuntarily, we agree here again.

21. “…Here, just so you can see that I can do without You…” It’s not about who can do without whom, it’s about the people of the SFRY who are starving, among them our Croatian people. In order to help the peoples of the SFRY, there is only one possibility, and that is: “Divide Yugoslavia into its natural-national components” and thus be freed from all obligations to foreign creditors. The national states of the people of the SFRY would not be obliged to return the debts that Yugoslavia took and spent on its luxuries. The peoples of SFRY would start their lives anew without any burdens of the past. There would be no more of that: S EXTENDED IN THE MILL. I know for sure that You know what this means. You are for the happiness and progress of our Croatian people and workers, just like me. So we agree again.

22. “.., but you in the end still as obedient and loyal…” Yes, I am both obedient and loyal. I am obedient because in a foreign world I am equal to the natives of the countries where I lived. I am loyal because their laws are based on truth and justice, separated from state-political influence, which proves the freedom of man. And based on the experience I gained abroad, I want to help my people feel the benefits of justice, freedom and truth. Through the centuries our people suffered, through the centuries our people wanted to be on their own, through the centuries our people were afraid. I think that we Croats are so civilized that we no longer need any tutoring from outside, and that we have already earned the freedom of our OWN OPINION. I am obedient and loyal to my own opinion just like you and we agree on that.

23. “…I recommend that you show this letter to your bosses…” I’m glad that you freed me from the obligation to remain silent, because otherwise I don’t present my letters at the windmill for radiation, as many do. That’s why I will comply with your wish and send both letters to my bosses, the state-forming Croats who are in Croatia, including you. As a professional official and public worker, you have experience in this and I believe you are right, because there should not be any secret between our letters, because secrets are conspiracies, and conspiracies go to prison. I have to admit with sympathy that I agree with you.

24. “…in order not to be inconvenienced by the report you sent me…” I read somewhere that some atheist wrote a book for years in which he wanted to show that God does not exist. After so much effort and futile proof, he finished the book with: “Thank God I finished it.” The same could be said about your letter in which you want to protect me and save me from possible inconveniences. I cannot remain indifferent to that. I must sincerely thank you and tell you that I agree with you.

25. There, dear neighbor, read on. Maybe something will stay in your head as a memory of your neighbor. But you will surely notice that I agree with you in all 25 points. So if that’s the case, and it is, I don’t see what the two of us couldn’t agree on. If there is an area, as mature and responsible people, let’s solve it in an intelligent way, as befits civilized people. In your letter, you called me a servant, and that’s why I left that word as the end of this 25-point letter, which you can freely consider as the 25 fields of the Croatian national and national COAT OF COAT.

Yes, I am a servant, but not a slave, as you probably meant. I am a servant of good things, the homeland of Croatia and my family. I don’t need to read a thick Bible to be able to understand the biblical sense of what a servant means. My Bible is very thin. It has only six words: “MY GOD, MY CROATIA AND MY FAMILY”. I know that you also thought so, so I will end these 25 points with politics so that the two of us agree on the above.

Dear neighbor, let’s talk about where I disagree with you. Let this not be a polemic between us, but a benevolent remark, dialogue and friendly conversation.

1. Namely, a few years ago, Stjepan Boban, brother, son of Vlado Rapišić got married and in that wedding celebration someone sang some Croatian songs. Allegedly, you excelled in persecuting those singers, and you never thought of that famous movie: WHO SINGS EVIL DOESN’T THINK.

2. When my Mother returned from America in the spring of 1986, You ordered Your snoopers to spy and stalk my Mother and to follow what she would say and where. If my Mother, an old woman of 74 years old, is so dangerous to the regime and the country that You guard, then that regime and that country are pitiful to You. I am fighting for a free Croatian State where its citizens will not be spied on. (Today, April 20, 2023, while I am writing this, I am attaching a picture of my mother of fifteen (15) children, Iva Vićaka Boban, the mother of the author of this letter to the Croatian Udbas, Miroslava Šimić, appeared with this description on page 12 of Hrvatski Tjednik. The picture was requested from me by the main and responsible editor of HT Dinko Dedić to put it with this description.)

What were you doing with those young men who met with Matišić’s son before going to the army? You arrested them, under threat you forced them to testify that they made the letter “U” out of prosciutto, etc. You forced people to swear and beg that the Croatian flag was there. This should be translated into several world languages and sent to all the governments of the world so that they can get to know the freedom in which the peoples of SFRY live, the freedom that you wrote to me that my brother Rafo enjoyed when he visited there last year.

4. What did you do to Dragan Marić (Kalić?) You put him in prison for a year, you beat and tortured him.

5. What was the fault of your neighbor Mirko Šimić, whom you tortured, beat and imprisoned for two and a half years. He was even on TV as an anti-state element. You found a spy who testified that Mirko intended to blow up the substation.

6. How can you arrest people on the road for the smallest of trifles and take them to Mostar Čelovina for questioning?

7. What are your neighbors guilty of, that you often search their houses, barns and farms? Doesn’t that look like a state of war?

8. Did your neighbor hide so much that you had to sit him on the toilet bowl and run cold and hot water on his head? When even that wasn’t enough for you, you used it to conduct experiments with light, etc.

9. Do you know the reason why you took Mata Šimić, who is a relative of Markočevič, to Mostar? Do you know why you tortured and beat him, etc.

10. What kind of delict did Šale Grubišić, Blagin, who said to his cousin Jura Bazina at the funeral: “Croatian land was easy for you.” In the evening they arrested him and brought him to You in Mostar for questioning? The land where Jure Bazina and many others were buried changed masters in the past, but no one could change it. I doubt that you will succeed either.

11. Allegedly, you ordered the postman from Sovic to hand over to you all the letters coming from me. Is it compliance with the international postal agreement of October 9, 1874??? Since Yugoslavia did not exist at that time, its leaders today can claim that their government did not exist at that time and that Yugoslavia was not subject to that law. In any case, it will be interesting to notify the International Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland, of the violation of these international postal rights.

12. On page five point 15 of this letter I said that I would mention some things to you later, which I am doing now. From the statements with which I disagree with you, you will notice that my neighbors write to me. One writes to me – if it is to be believed – that you personally threatened me. I emphasize what I said earlier that only then would I become equal to all those who were killed by the Yugoslav Udbaska criminal machine.

Finally, my dear neighbor Miroslav, I want to tell you that a Chinese proverb says: “If you want to take ten thousand steps, you must first take the first step.” We Croats have already taken that first step. We are now working on the 9999th step. One more step and the Croatian State is here!!! Now you can see how close we are to the goal. It is up to you and everyone else whether you want to join those who want to help their people or not.

I’m not talking about demolition, I’m talking about construction. I’m not talking about a fight. I’m talking about reconciliation. I’m not talking about tensions, I’m talking about tolerances. I am not talking about Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox. I am not talking about Croats, Serbs and others. I’M TALKING ABOUT THE CROATIAN STATE, WHOSE CITY WILL BE BANJA LUKA.

Sincere greetings to you and your colleagues in the office.

Your neighbor Mile Boban from Texas.