the twists of Stalinism: In 1943, when Italy capitulated, Jurančič led a rebellion of Yugoslav prisoners. …Under his leadership, 2,000 starved prisoners single-handedly disarmed 2,200 Italian soldiers. After the war, he was arrested and put in a prison on the nearby small Goli Otok (“naked island”), a notorious Communist concentration camp. While there, he was mobilized in 1953, together with other prisoners, to build a monument to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 1943 rebellion on Rab - in short, as a prisoner of Communists, Jurančič was building a monument to himself

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