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Ron Klutho talks to Nasja Meyer about Croatia




MUSIC: ⁠⁠⁠Galeb i ja by Oliver Dragojević




Next week Ron will talk about Sierra Leone with Mahmoud Conteh




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0:00 SEG 1 - Where is Croatia on the map? | How Croatia was able to keep its identity | Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian languages | Tito was President of Yugoslavia for life




15:28 SEG 2 - Growing up under Tito | Parents had an arranged marriage | Schools | Communist journalists




32:43 SEG 3 - Was her childhood happy? | Meeting her future husband | Her English when she arrived | Didn’t understand why people thought Johnny Carson was so funny | Connecting with other Croatians in St. Louis | Teaching her children Croatian | Being an interpreter for boxers | How has Croatia changed since her childhood | Are there a lot of tourists visiting Croatia?