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Remember The Fallen "On this day 75 years ago, young Croat Frane Tente was imprisoned, tortured and murdered by communist authorities. His crime was removing the Yugoslavian flag on Marjan Hill, Split" [More in content] [640x480 - 33KB] (pic8.co)

Source (Croatian): https://archive.ph/gGoqc

Translation:

Frane Tente (April 2, 1928 - Lepoglava penitentiary, November 8, 1948), Croatian political activist from Split , victim of the Yugo-Communist persecution of political dissidents.

He was born in 1928, to father Nikola, a financial officer from Mravinac and mother Darinka née Čulić, a housewife from Split. He had two brothers and three sisters. They lived in a modest home in Gripe .

Fran's oldest brother, Maksimilijan, was a member of the Ustaše army , with the rank of a Corporal. After the war, the British captured him at Bleiburg and handed him over to the partisans, after which his fate is unknown. It is believed that he was shot in the vicinity of Šentvid. [1] Frane Tente joined the Ustaša youth in 1944, and then transferred to the stormtroopers. [2] Fleeing from the partisans, seventeen-year-old Frane Tente shared the fate of many Croats who went through the May disaster . He was captured near Dravograd, and was brought to Zagreb on the Way of the Cross , and then to Bjelovar. He was luckier than his brother: he was released from the Bjelovar camp to return home to Split.

After arriving in Split, he continues to attend the Classical High School, where he enters the 5th grade. He was arrested for the first time on the night of July 19-20, 1946, during the search of his home, after he had painted the image of Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić on the building of the Split gymnasium on the occasion of his name day . [3] Based on the preserved data, it is not possible to precisely conclude the length of stay in pretrial detention, but as Frane Tente gave his third testimony on August 5, 1946, the duration of pretrial detention was more than two weeks. According to the information available in the UDBE archives , Frane connected with a group of young men and women in the second half of 1946. They founded the Croatian Liberation Movement and met in houses to organize resistance to the regime. [4] This resistance, according to witness statements, consisted of writing and distributing leaflets, as well as drawing graffiti and slogans.

After OZNA released him, Frane Tente continued to attend the Classical High School in Split. He was a seventh grade student. In Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav flag was placed on top of Marjan. With that group of like-minded people from the Croatian Liberation Movement (Frane Bettini (22), Ivica Bavčević (22), Nikola Pensa (22), Jelka Betica (42), Vlaho Zelinak (45), Borica Jonić (20), Ruža Anić (19) , Katica Šanić (20), Jakov Kirigin (19), theologian Tomislav Karaman (21, later priest and vicar general of the Split archdiocese), Vjekoslav Matijević (20) and Frane Tente (19)) [5] embarked on a protest action on 10 In April 1947 (on the 6th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress ), Marjanu took down the Yugoslav flag with the red star and placed an 18-meter Croatian flag on top of it . [6] The action caused a shock. The investigation has begun. Arrests followed within two weeks. Bettini was the first to be arrested, on April 29, and by May 18, all of them were in Split prison, including Tente. Even though they were all minors, they went through a terrible investigative process and were brought to court. The verdict followed very quickly. The District Court of Central Dalmatia in Split ruled on May 27. They were accused of undermining the SFRY, when in fact they were printing different leaflets and writing slogans on the streets. Although a minor, he was detained in the penitentiary in Lepoglava.

He was convicted, and the explanation of the verdict stated that he was convicted and punished because:

compiled and reproduced several slogans and leaflets calling for the violent overthrow of the existing state system
scattered leaflets with anti-national content in the courtyard of the gymnasium in Split
together with others, took down the Yugoslav flag with the five-pointed star on Marjan and raised the Croatian flag without the five-pointed star

The verdict contained more. In addition to hanging the flag, they were charged with organizing an association whose aim was violent action with the aim of overthrowing the constitutional order in the FNRJ, compiling and distributing leaflets calling for resistance, writing slogans such as "Down with Tito" and "Long live HOP (Croatian Liberation Movement)", inciting rebellion among peasants in Žeževica , procurement of medical supplies for outlaw gangs (for which they accused Pensa), recruitment of members to HOP, attempt to transfer to outlaw gangs (for which they accused Jakov Kirigin) and Dr. Režimska Slobodna Dalmacija (jewish newspapers) from May 31, 1947 mentioned and tearing down the picture of Ivo Lola Ribar (communist " hero"), and she called the hanging of the Croatian flag "hanging the Ustasha flag", and called the action "treason of the remnants of fascism".

After the verdict, Tente was taken to Šibenik, then to the penitentiary in Lepoglav, and then to forced labor for the construction of the Šamac - Sarajevo railway. After that, he continued serving his five-year sentence in Lepoglava. He died there. The Lepoglav penitentiary, although with a less bad reputation than the one in Gradiška and the NDH camps, which continued their dark function even after liberation from the Axis power, had a bad reputation as a torture center for Croatian patriots and dissidents: "militiamen beat political prisoners with their fists, boots , clubs, iron bars. They strangled them, tied them with chains so that their feet did not touch the floor, fixed their feet to their heads, threw them half-naked into freezing cells, took them out for mock executions, injured them. The convict did not know when he would be called and beaten, and in the first post-war years when he was taken to a nearby sandbar and killed." The manager at the time was KNOJ major Josip Špiranec . The manager was infamous: for example, he personally created designs for three types of shackles: 12 kg, 20 kg and 50 kg. The warden of the penitentiary is believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least two hundred people. [7] During the winter of 1946/47. by order of the warden of the penitentiary, Frane Tente, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement. Tenti was ordered by the guards to take off all his clothes except his underwear. Then they put shackles on his legs and took him to a tall room without glass where they locked him up. Previously, the floor was flooded with water to create ice. That same winter, February 1948, Frane Tente died of pneumonia. Other documents stated that Tente died at the age of twenty on November 8, 1948 at 4 p.m. The prison report stated that he died of "aqueous pleurisy and tuberculous meningitis." Fran's body was never returned, so his grave is still unknown to this day.

The details of the death could not be known in full, but only in small fragments. Fran's last days were recounted to the family by Fran's comrade and companion Vjekoslav Matijević , who in 1947 together with Fran developed the Croatian flag on Marjan.

The fate of the Tente family is indicative of the fate of the Croatian people in the Second World War: part of the family was shot by the Nazis from the Prinz Eugen division on Split's Trstenik, others were killed by partisans, others as NDH soldiers, and still others, like Frana, were victims of Yugo-communist confrontations with political dissidents.

In 2015, the Split-based association Udruga Urbana desnica launched an initiative to allocate the street to Frani Tenta. They announced that on the anniversary of his death on November 8, an official proposal would be submitted to the city authorities to name a street in memory of Frana Tenta, and murals in honor of Frana Tenta were already painted in Split and Mravince at the end of summer 2015.

On the 70th anniversary of the death of Frane Tenta, on November 8, 2018, the city of Split raised the Croatian flag in honor of Frane Tenta. The City of Split said, " Today we raised the Croatian flag on Prvi Marjanski vrh, where Frane Tente and his friends raised the Croatian flag without a star in 1947. The communist authorities condemned them for that "hostile act", and on this day before 70 years in the penitentiary in Lepoglava, after the torture Frane Tenta died ". [9] [10] In memory of Fran, they also released a new version of the song Marjane, Marjane . [11]

In December 2019, the city council of Split voted on the proposal to erect a monument to Frana Tenta on Marjan , at which the Association of Anti-Fascists and Anti-Fascist Fighters Split , as well as the party Pametno , condemned the erection of a monument to this member of the Ustaše youth.

Source (Croatian): https://archive.ph/gGoqc --------- Translation: Frane Tente (April 2, 1928 - Lepoglava penitentiary, November 8, 1948), Croatian political activist from Split , victim of the Yugo-Communist persecution of political dissidents. He was born in 1928, to father Nikola, a financial officer from Mravinac and mother Darinka née Čulić, a housewife from Split. He had two brothers and three sisters. They lived in a modest home in Gripe . Fran's oldest brother, Maksimilijan, was a member of the Ustaše army , with the rank of a Corporal. After the war, the British captured him at Bleiburg and handed him over to the partisans, after which his fate is unknown. It is believed that he was shot in the vicinity of Šentvid. [1] Frane Tente joined the Ustaša youth in 1944, and then transferred to the stormtroopers. [2] Fleeing from the partisans, seventeen-year-old Frane Tente shared the fate of many Croats who went through the May disaster . He was captured near Dravograd, and was brought to Zagreb on the Way of the Cross , and then to Bjelovar. He was luckier than his brother: he was released from the Bjelovar camp to return home to Split. After arriving in Split, he continues to attend the Classical High School, where he enters the 5th grade. He was arrested for the first time on the night of July 19-20, 1946, during the search of his home, after he had painted the image of Ustasha leader Ante Pavelić on the building of the Split gymnasium on the occasion of his name day . [3] Based on the preserved data, it is not possible to precisely conclude the length of stay in pretrial detention, but as Frane Tente gave his third testimony on August 5, 1946, the duration of pretrial detention was more than two weeks. According to the information available in the UDBE archives , Frane connected with a group of young men and women in the second half of 1946. They founded the Croatian Liberation Movement and met in houses to organize resistance to the regime. [4] This resistance, according to witness statements, consisted of writing and distributing leaflets, as well as drawing graffiti and slogans. After OZNA released him, Frane Tente continued to attend the Classical High School in Split. He was a seventh grade student. In Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav flag was placed on top of Marjan. With that group of like-minded people from the Croatian Liberation Movement (Frane Bettini (22), Ivica Bavčević (22), Nikola Pensa (22), Jelka Betica (42), Vlaho Zelinak (45), Borica Jonić (20), Ruža Anić (19) , Katica Šanić (20), Jakov Kirigin (19), theologian Tomislav Karaman (21, later priest and vicar general of the Split archdiocese), Vjekoslav Matijević (20) and Frane Tente (19)) [5] embarked on a protest action on 10 In April 1947 (on the 6th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Congress ), Marjanu took down the Yugoslav flag with the red star and placed an 18-meter Croatian flag on top of it . [6] The action caused a shock. The investigation has begun. Arrests followed within two weeks. Bettini was the first to be arrested, on April 29, and by May 18, all of them were in Split prison, including Tente. Even though they were all minors, they went through a terrible investigative process and were brought to court. The verdict followed very quickly. The District Court of Central Dalmatia in Split ruled on May 27. They were accused of undermining the SFRY, when in fact they were printing different leaflets and writing slogans on the streets. Although a minor, he was detained in the penitentiary in Lepoglava. He was convicted, and the explanation of the verdict stated that he was convicted and punished because: 1. compiled and reproduced several slogans and leaflets calling for the violent overthrow of the existing state system 2. scattered leaflets with anti-national content in the courtyard of the gymnasium in Split 3. together with others, took down the Yugoslav flag with the five-pointed star on Marjan and raised the Croatian flag without the five-pointed star The verdict contained more. In addition to hanging the flag, they were charged with organizing an association whose aim was violent action with the aim of overthrowing the constitutional order in the FNRJ, compiling and distributing leaflets calling for resistance, writing slogans such as "Down with Tito" and "Long live HOP (Croatian Liberation Movement)", inciting rebellion among peasants in Žeževica , procurement of medical supplies for outlaw gangs (for which they accused Pensa), recruitment of members to HOP, attempt to transfer to outlaw gangs (for which they accused Jakov Kirigin) and Dr. Režimska Slobodna Dalmacija (jewish newspapers) from May 31, 1947 mentioned and tearing down the picture of Ivo Lola Ribar (communist " hero"), and she called the hanging of the Croatian flag "hanging the Ustasha flag", and called the action "treason of the remnants of fascism". After the verdict, Tente was taken to Šibenik, then to the penitentiary in Lepoglav, and then to forced labor for the construction of the Šamac - Sarajevo railway. After that, he continued serving his five-year sentence in Lepoglava. He died there. The Lepoglav penitentiary, although with a less bad reputation than the one in Gradiška and the NDH camps, which continued their dark function even after liberation from the Axis power, had a bad reputation as a torture center for Croatian patriots and dissidents: "militiamen beat political prisoners with their fists, boots , clubs, iron bars. They strangled them, tied them with chains so that their feet did not touch the floor, fixed their feet to their heads, threw them half-naked into freezing cells, took them out for mock executions, injured them. The convict did not know when he would be called and beaten, and in the first post-war years when he was taken to a nearby sandbar and killed." The manager at the time was KNOJ major Josip Špiranec . The manager was infamous: for example, he personally created designs for three types of shackles: 12 kg, 20 kg and 50 kg. The warden of the penitentiary is believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least two hundred people. [7] During the winter of 1946/47. by order of the warden of the penitentiary, Frane Tente, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement. Tenti was ordered by the guards to take off all his clothes except his underwear. Then they put shackles on his legs and took him to a tall room without glass where they locked him up. Previously, the floor was flooded with water to create ice. That same winter, February 1948, Frane Tente died of pneumonia. Other documents stated that Tente died at the age of twenty on November 8, 1948 at 4 p.m. The prison report stated that he died of "aqueous pleurisy and tuberculous meningitis." Fran's body was never returned, so his grave is still unknown to this day. The details of the death could not be known in full, but only in small fragments. Fran's last days were recounted to the family by Fran's comrade and companion Vjekoslav Matijević , who in 1947 together with Fran developed the Croatian flag on Marjan. The fate of the Tente family is indicative of the fate of the Croatian people in the Second World War: part of the family was shot by the Nazis from the Prinz Eugen division on Split's Trstenik, others were killed by partisans, others as NDH soldiers, and still others, like Frana, were victims of Yugo-communist confrontations with political dissidents. In 2015, the Split-based association Udruga Urbana desnica launched an initiative to allocate the street to Frani Tenta. They announced that on the anniversary of his death on November 8, an official proposal would be submitted to the city authorities to name a street in memory of Frana Tenta, and murals in honor of Frana Tenta were already painted in Split and Mravince at the end of summer 2015. On the 70th anniversary of the death of Frane Tenta, on November 8, 2018, the city of Split raised the Croatian flag in honor of Frane Tenta. The City of Split said, " Today we raised the Croatian flag on Prvi Marjanski vrh, where Frane Tente and his friends raised the Croatian flag without a star in 1947. The communist authorities condemned them for that "hostile act", and on this day before 70 years in the penitentiary in Lepoglava, after the torture Frane Tenta died ". [9] [10] In memory of Fran, they also released a new version of the song Marjane, Marjane . [11] In December 2019, the city council of Split voted on the proposal to erect a monument to Frana Tenta on Marjan , at which the Association of Anti-Fascists and Anti-Fascist Fighters Split , as well as the party Pametno , condemned the erection of a monument to this member of the Ustaše youth.

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