There was once a terrible camp

Today, Goli Otok has been abandoned, and the only visitors are important tourist, nudist and rare explorers. Prior to the campaign, the review was uninhabited. Most of this complex was built indoors. Historians believe that the first camp on Goli Otok was founded during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, during the First World War. His prisoners were popularly Russian war producers. Croatian novelist and poet Ante Zemljar, who was on Goli Otok from 1949 to 1953, wrote that the participants in that city's prison complex were published in Russian military uniforms. Among them, since no archeological excavations have been carried out, the story of the first victims of the island remains a popular legend.

After the death of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in 1980, the camp was created in a juvenile colony that is closed every year because there are international human rights organizations that have accused Yugoslavia. After the final creation of the complex in 1988, the last guards left it. Only the sheep that the locals of Rab took to the pasture and the rabbits that the inhabitants of the surrounding islands raised for hunting remained. Goli Otok was the largest set in which the so-called "informants" were imprisoned - people accused of being members of Stalin at the time of his conflict with Tito. The camp on Goli Otok, a small rocky island near Rab, was established in July 1949. It was the time of the Resolution of the Inform Bureau and the conflict between Tito and Stalin.

The island is naturally isolated with strong winds and currents in the surrounding sea, there were no trees or drinking water on it and it was not inhabited. The treatment of prisoners on Goli Otok was primarily characterized by brutality. Because they were seen as ideological opponents, they tried to “re-educate” them in the classic Stalinist style, and it was not only important for the authorities to punish them with imprisonment, but to make them think differently. As a result, they were exposed not only to hard physical labor, but part of their regular practice was harassment and humiliation: prisoners had to punish other prisoners or hand them over to prison authorities. After Stalin's death in March 1953 and the official end of the conflict with the Soviet Union in 1956, the camp on Goli Otok was disbanded. A "normal" prison for criminals, young adults, but partly for some later political prisoners, was then established there. The "Rab-Goli Otok Penitentiary" was finally closed in 1988. he thinks of his first phase - the camp for informers