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My great-grandfather was the captain of the "Vila Velebita" ship, taken by Italy during the occupation in 1941.

In 1965 he wrote a letter to the Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, unsuccessfully requesting the return of the sunken ship from Ortona to Bakar/Buccari.

Rijeka, 27 August 2023

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Rijeka/Fiume in 1953.

After the nationalization, big empty flats in Rijeka were partitioned into smaller flats.

Rijeka, 14 January 2025

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Rijeka by night, 14 November 1953

Rijeka, 10 January 2025

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Articles from "Riječki list" written during the Trieste crisis in 1953, after which Croatian-Italian bilingualism in Rijeka/Fiume was abolished.

Rijeka, 10 January 2025

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The Fiume/Sušak Question presented by the "Comité Yougoslave" in Paris in 1920.

During the Versailles negotiations, the Italians presented Fiume as a separate city, while the Yugoslavs presented Fiume and Sušak as an agglomeration.

According to the Yugoslav committee, in 1910 45.048 Yugoslavs and 24.870 Italians lived in the Fiume/Sušak region, which includes all surrounding towns.

Zagreb, 8 January 2025

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Magazzino 26, Trieste, Italy, 21 December 2024

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Magazzino 26, Trieste, Italy, 21 December 2024

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Magazzino 26, Trieste, Italy, 21 December 2024

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Between 230,000 and 350,000 people emigrated from Yugoslavia to Italy from 1943-1960.

Some of their personal belongings are stored in the Magazzino 26 in Trieste.

Trieste, Italy, 21 December 2024

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Montona/Motovun under Italy, a photo from the Magazzino 26 exhibition in Trieste.

Rijeka, 26 December 2024

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John Wayne riding everything.

OpenAI, Rijeka, 14 December 2024

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-  Can we always control every corner of Gorski Kotar?

- We are fighting with experienced fighters. The communist movement here is very strong. These lands gave a lot of fighters in the Spanish Civil War. We arrested some of them. Some fled, they are hiding on Tuhobić. We installed barbed wire everywhere. 

- That's not enough! We have to surround them, to tear out their roots. Every village has to have an Italian judge and an Italian teacher. This will become a peaceful little corner, an Italian Switzerland. 

Kapelski kresovi, Zagreb, 9 December 2024

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During the Second World War the neighborhoods of Sušak had code names.

They were named after the resistance members who lived in those neighborhoods:

Trsat = Malovo (Mirko Piškurić Mali)

Krimeja = Marjanovo (Marcel Kovačić Marjan)

Pećine = Vidovo (Vladimir Švalba Vid)

Franje Račkog Street = Lujevo (Leo Godnić Luj)

Around the high school = Bobijevo (Franjo Paravić Bobi)

Donja Vežica = Sestrovo (sisters Možina)

Rijeka, 30 November 2024

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Patriotic women of Istria, Kvarner and Gorski kotar.

Rijeka, 14 November 2024

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ULICA INTERNACIONALNIH BRIGADA = INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES STREET = CALLE DE LAS BRIGADAS INTERNACIONALES

Rijeka, 18 November 2024

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AIRBNB RISES YOUR RENT.

Cirenaica, Bologna, 16 November 2024

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"No internationalist form of struggle can be carried out successfully if there is not a mutual exchange of experiences among the people, if the people do not succeed in breaking out of the Balkanisation on the international, continental, and national planes which imperialism is striving to maintain."

Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino: Towards a Third Cinema, Argentina, 1969

Zagreb, 13 November 2024