The heaviest prison YU HISTORY When you come here without knowing the background, it would be a cool getaway. But this is the Croatian Alcatraz

Political Camp Goli otok is a notorious camp on the island of the same name for Yugoslav political prisoners founded in 1949 on the orders of the leadership of the Communist Party and the state. It was chosen because of the inescapability and the inability to escape.
In the camp were largely Communist suspects suspected of cooperating with the Soviet Union after the conflict between Stalin and Tito in 1948, that is, as it was then said, "for cooperation with the Informbiroom." Civilians are "deported" as a rule sent without a trial, administrative decision, while military judges are judged on the staged processes in which they are convicted of at least three, up to twenty years of strict imprisonment.
The treatment the Yugoslav communists organized with their party counterparts and submarines in the 1940s and 1950s was not only brutal but morally degrading.Through the infamous prison passed about 50,000 prisoners who were sent to 'political reeducation'. According to the same sources, about 600 prisoners did not return from the island.

"You can only imagine what happened here while it was open. The history of this island creates a vicious atmosphere.- A unique location, a prison on an uninhabited island on the Adriatic Sea, the prison was the most interesting part of the islandIn the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire captured the Russian captives from the East Front on Goli Island.

The most famous is the bastion of the former state, ordered after the adoption of the Resolution of Informação in 1948. Although originally conceived as a hiding place of disenfits from communist ranks, in the seventies and eighties, with the rest of Stalin's fans, there are also some nationalist thinkers, and later on the island was punished by criminals And heavy juvenile delikvents.

On Gol Island, the perpetrators performed the hardest physical jobs, they were quarrying, in the summer at 35 to 40 degrees C, and in the winter with the snakes of Senj bura. It was the "stride of the spirit" where all dignity and lives were lost.

With the geostrategic position, as well as the unlucky currents of sea currents, Goli was an island resort that was extremely difficult to leave. Along with the famous stories of breaking stone boulders, the memory of Goli otok also inspires numerous rumors about the extremely tedious sexual exploitation of the prisoner, in which the prison guards and commanders played a crucial role.The notorious penitentiary of the fall of communism was abolished in 1988, and has been transformed into a space intended for conceptual artists, and is also thinking about tourism affirmation.