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[[File:Korcula Postcard 1902.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A '''Korcula''' postcard from 1902 in Italian. The last Italian language government school was abolished in Korcula on the 13th of September 1876.]]
[[File:Korcula Postcard 1902.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A '''Korcula''' postcard from 1902 in Italian. The last Italian language government school was abolished in Korcula on the 13th of September 1876.]]
==Korcula History - There Needs to be an Historical Reassessment==
==Korcula History - There Needs to be an Historical Reassessment==
===If we put aside political correctness, concerning Korcula's history===
===If we put aside political correctness, concerning Korcula's history===
To start of with, one can ask the question, what happened to the '''Roman families''' when the Slavs invaded the island of Korcula'''?''' The Slavic tribes invaded the old Roman Dalmatian province. This part of Korcula's history is very '''unclear''' (in Croatian the c in Korcula is pronounced ''ch'' and is written "'''č'''").
To start of with, one can ask the question, what happened to the '''Roman families''' when the Slavs invaded the island of Korcula'''?''' The Slavic tribes invaded the old Roman Dalmatian province. This part of Korcula's history is very '''unclear''' (in Croatian the c in Korcula is pronounced ''ch'' and is written "'''č'''").
''It is true, then a small colony of Italians where in Sibenik, on the island of Korcula, Hvar and Vis, and other places of the province.''<ref>Concerning the Number of Italians/Pro-Italians in Dalmatia in the XIXth Century by Šime Peričić</ref>}}
''It is true, then a small colony of Italians where in Sibenik, on the island of Korcula, Hvar and Vis, and other places of the province.''<ref>Concerning the Number of Italians/Pro-Italians in Dalmatia in the XIXth Century by Šime Peričić</ref>}}
==There Needs to be an Historical Reassessment==
Trying to re-tell the history of this part of the world (old Dalmatia part of [[Croatia]]) is fraught with problems. The [[Titoism and Totalitarianism|Yugoslav Communist party]] created historic falsehoods to promote its own aggressive political authoritarian agenda.
'''In''' the 19th century the island became heavily influenced by Pan-Slavism and the Croatian Nationalistic movements. Pan-Slavism was later in the 20th century reinforced by the Yugoslavian governments. The [[Titoism and Totalitarianism|Communist Yugoslavian]] regime (1945-92) had a huge influence on the island of Korcula and the historic region of Dalmatia. The Yugoslav Communist party <ref>The League of Communists of Yugoslavia</ref> was the main driving force in all social matters within the former Yugoslavia. Its [[Titoism and Totalitarianism|Stalinist policies]] from the 1940s to the 1960s and authoritarian rule <ref>[http://www.federaljack.com/ebooks/Free%20Energy%20Ebooks/Gale%20-%20Encyclopedia%20Of%20Genocide%20And%20Crimes%20Against%20Humanity/Gale%20-%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Genocide%20and%20Crimes%20Against%20Humanity%20-%20Vol%203%20%5BT-Z%5D%20Corrected.pdf '''Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity'''. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Gale Cengage, 2005.] Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Volume 3 by Dinah Shelton Macmillan Reference, 2005 - Political Science (p.1170)
*"The killing continued after the war, as Tito's victorious forces took revenge on their real and perceived enemies. British forces in Austria turned back tens of thousands of fleeing Yugoslavs. Estimates range from 30,000 to 55,000 killed between spring and autumn 1945."
*"Native German and Hungarian communities, seen as complicit with wartime occupation, were brutally treated; tantamount in some cases to ethnic cleansing. The Volksdeutsch settlements of Vojvodina and Slavonia largely disappeared. Perhaps 100,000 people—half the ethnic German population in Yugoslavia—fled in 1945, and many who remained were compelled to do forced Labour, murdered, or later ransomed by [[Germany|West Germany]]. Some 20,000 Hungarians of Vojvodina were killed in reprisals. Albanian rebellions in Kosovo were suppressed, with prisoners sent on '''death marches''' towards the coast. An estimated 170,000 ethnic [[Italy|Italians]] fled to Italy in the late 1940s and 1950s. (All of these figures are highly approximate.)"</ref> have been mostly ignored in the Western media. From the late 19th century on-wards coastal Dalmatian culture has been disappearing from the region with not much attention being payed to it.
Paul Hollander writes about attitudes in former communist countries (complicity):
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''Public attitudes in former communist countries have been conflicted because of the arguable complicity of many citizens in keeping the old system in power. A predominant attitude in Eastern Europe and Russia toward the former communist systems has been a mixture of oblivion, denial, and repression'' <ref>http://www.cato.org/publications/development-policy-analysis/reflections-communism-twenty-years-after-fall-berlin-wall</ref>}}
'''Additional''': Historians seem to not place importance on the islands diminishing population during its long history. Periods where the population diminished would be:
* During the conquering of the island by the Romans.
* Later the conquering of the island by the Slavic Croatians.
* Wars with the Ottoman Empire.
* Also during the infamous Black Plagues in the 16th century.
Truly, I believe there needs to be an historical reassessment.
==Chronology-Korcula Languages==
==Chronology-Korcula Languages==