Original article should be like this       Franjo Tuman May    December   was the first president of Croatia in the s  Tumans political party HDZ Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica Croatian Democratic Union won the first postcommunist multiparty elections in  and he became the president of the country A year later he proclaimed the Croatian declaration of independence He was reelected twice and remained in power until his death in late  In English his surname is spelled Tudjman  The Communist  Franjo Tuman was born in Veliko Trgovie a village in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region of northern Croatia  During WWII Tuman fought on the side of Titos partisans where he also met his future wife Ankica He became one of the youngest generals in the Yugoslav Peoples Army in the s  a fact which some observers linked to the fact that he sprung from Zagorje a region that gave few Communist partisans  Others have observed that Tuman was probably the most educated of Titos generals as regards military history strategy and the interplay of politics and warfare  this claim is supported by the fact that generations of future Yugoslav generals based their general exam theses on his voluminous book on guerilla warfare throughout history Rat protiv rata War against war  which covers topics as diverse as Hannibals drive across the Alps the Spanish war against Napoleon and Yugoslav partisan warfare  Tuman left active army service in  to found the Institut za historiju radnikoga pokreta Hrvatske Institute for the History of Croatias Workers Movement and remained its director until   The Dissident  Apart from the book on guerilla warfare Tuman wrote a series of articles  attacking the Yugoslav Communist establishment and was subsequently expelled from the Party His most important book from that period was Velike ideje i mali narodi Great ideas and small peoples a monograph on political history that collided with central dogmas of Yugoslav Communist elite with regard to the interconnectedness of the national and social elements in the Yugoslav revolutionary war during WWII  In  he was sentenced to two years of prison for alleged subversive activities during the socalled Croatian Spring  The Croatian Spring was a reformist movement that was actually set in motion by Tito and Croatian party chief Bakari in the climate of growing liberalism in the late s It was initially a tepid and ideologically controlled party liberalism but it soon grew into mass manifestation of dissatisfaction with the position of the Croatian people in Yugoslavia and it began to threaten the partys political monopoly The result was a brutal suppression by Tito who used the military and the police to crush what he saw as the threat to his undivided power  Bakari quickly distanced himself from the Croatian Communist leadership that he himself helped gain power earlier and sided with the Yugoslav ruler  During the turbulent  Tumans role was that of the dissident who questioned the central myth of modern Serbian nationalism the number of victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp as well as the role of centralism in Yugoslav and the continuation of ideology of unitary Yugoslavism Tuman felt that this originally Croatian romantic panSlavic idea from the th century had been mutated in harsh realities in both Yugoslav states into the front for a panSerbian drive for domination over nonSerb peoples  from economy and a