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202670 minPGdocumentary

We Shall Live Together

202670 minPGdocumentary

Roko Markovina, a former socialist and unionist politician, recounts his and his wife's struggle to reclaim their home in Mostar after being exiled by nationalist forces.

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Damir Markovina

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Roko Markovina, a former socialist and unionist politician, recounts his and his wife's struggle to reclaim their home in Mostar after being exiled by nationalist forces.

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Roko Markovina, a former socialist and unionist politician from the city of Mostar in Herzegovina, reflects on the situation in Croatia and Bosnia during wartime and about the fruitless efforts that he and his wife went through to get back their home that had been taken away from them by nationalist forces who exiled them from it.

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