He lived for half of the 20th century and died at sea. The sea led him from Preak to the top of the world.

He is dead Budimir Lonar. At the age of one hundred and one, he had memorized all the Hejduk formations – so his memory more or less helped him. He visited the book promotions and play premieres of more than four dozen culturally active twenty-five-year-olds. Always fit, elegant, neatly dressed, with a handkerchief in his pocket, he did not give up until he was found dead one hot Sunday in the sea that had taken him from Preak to the top of the world. The title of his biography Yakovina Company.

Ivo Sanader During a break in one of the trials, he vividly described the importance of Budimir “Leka” Lonnar, an importance that had not disappeared with his retirement – provided that the term linking the pension to his name made sense. “Do you know why I will never change the name of Marshal Tito Square,” Sanader asked, and then replied: “Because of Croatian national interests. Whenever I need support from the United Nations or the Security Council, I call Budda Lonnar and say, come on, Budo, do something with your connections in the non-aligned countries and elsewhere, and this will be solved, I rely on Lonnar, he relies on himself and Tito…”

A year ago, Budimir Lonár was supposed to give a speech at his 100th birthday celebrations Henry Kissinger. He prepared the speech and was ready – he travels around the world a lot – but because Kissinger’s relatives thought he was too old to go to Germany, Lohner gave up. “What am I going to do when he’s not here?” he said. Below is a photo of them Barack Obama In the UN building (which Lorna called his office), Obama asked Lorna—“Do you think this isn’t your first time here?” Obama was joking, of course: Lorna was a friend. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Lonner personally knew the first half of the 20th century: in Jakovina’s book we see photos of people he talked to – Nikita Khrushchev, Sukarno, Hua Guofeng, Jasser Arafat, Margaret Thatcher, Rajiv Gandhi, Saddam Hussein, Pope Ivan Pavo II, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Vaclav Havel, Fidel Castro, Angela Merkel, Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorba; ..

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We have said that his memory more or less helped him with everything. She arranged some controversial events in our history, but this is understandable – no one is obliged to oppose himself. Thoughtful and thoughtless opponents accused him of participating in post-war reprisals and intelligence operations (he was allegedly in Rome at the time to hunt down a former Ustasha intelligence officer) Dear Jilekawho was kidnapped in Rome Eichmann Then moved to Yugoslavia) but this remains in the realm of speculation. At the end of the war he was the leader of OZNA in Zadar, but neither his attackers nor his defenders have unearthed any documents on his real role.

In 1991, his role also caused similar controversy. “The fact that I was accused of imposing an embargo on the import of arms is stupid and ignorant. Even if I was against the embargo, and according to my beliefs, I could not oppose it, I could not do anything because I did not have the right to vote,” he said in an interview with Jutarnje, and then continued: “I was the first foreign minister in the history of the United Nations to put my country on the UN agenda because it threatened the world. My speeches were not secret – among other things, I said to the United Nations: “None of the Yugoslav factors is innocent and not entirely true”, but “it is obvious where the roots of the conflict are and where the main factors are”. The motives of distrust are. James Baker And stressed that it was obvious that I was referring to Slobodan Milosevic. I also said that Serbs and Croats have lived together for centuries. Croatia is the “homeland” of Croatian Serbs, and they “must continue to live together and … remain within the existing borders”. I also said that “the mechanisms that were supposed to protect peace and all lives are not fulfilling their role”, but … have “produced the opposite effect”, which is a direct address to the JNA. If Croatian ‘analysts’ are interested in the truth, it can be easily confirmed…”

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But our public is most interested not in the truth – which requires a lot of searching and effort, and the truth is sometimes surprising – but in “misleading”. In any case, Budimir Lonner died beautifully – he had no pain, he was as healthy as a dogwood (Zims eventually suffered a traumatic injury from a broken bone, but recovered quickly), and he did not struggle. He died close to home, happy and satisfied as a human being. Kierkegaard once said that one should treat all people who live normally to old age differently, and Budimir Lonner certainly succeeded.