Goli otok prison camp - 🧡 Discover the secrets of Goli otok and Sveti Grgur islands

For a long time, Tito was praised by the West for his efforts in splitting with Stalin in 1948, so much so that Yugoslavia became one of the key factors in Cold War relations.

In any case, if you go independently and off season, remember to take sufficient drinking water with you and possibly a snack if you think you'll need sustenance as there is nowhere on the island to obtain this only in the holiday season when the restaurant and souvenir stall by the harbour are open.

A bit more time would have been ideal, in hindsight, but nevertheless, even if it was a bit rushed towards the end, having the island and its ghost-town ruins all to ourselves, in almost total silence the odd sheep bleating or bird call aside , was exciting, and all the while there was this distant sense of a grim history in the air.

They included people of various ages, high-ranking politicians, professional soldiers and policemen, professors and students, peasants, unskilled workers and managers.

An actual hotel and restaurant complex was also built on the island, or at least it was tried to use one of the newest building on the island as such a tourist place after the prison had closed, i.

The idea was not merely to isolate Yugoslav supporters of Stalin, but to break them psychologically and thus prevent them from ever becoming a Soviet fifth column inside Yugoslavia.