Editing Croatian Spring (section)

==Aftermath==
===Maintenance of reforms===
[[File:Metković09894.JPG|thumb|A monument to [[interwar period|interwar]] [[Croatian Peasant Party]] leader [[Stjepan Radić]] was erected in [[Metković]] during the Croatian Spring.|alt=Bust of Stjepan Radić placed on a black pedestal]]

Under the new SKH leadership, [[Ivo Perišin]] replaced Haramija as the [[President of the Executive Council of SR Croatia|President of its Executive Council]] in late December 1971.{{sfn|Bukvić|2013|p=49}} In February 1972, the Croatian Parliament passed a series of 36 amendments to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, one of which introduced {{lang|hr|Lijepa naša domovino}} as the republic's anthem.{{sfn|Mrkalj|2020|p=76}}

After the downfall of the reformist SKH leadership, anti-communist émigrés wrote about the Croatian Spring as a movement presaging democratisation and praised Dabčević-Kučar and Tripalo as people of "unusual political virtues".{{sfn|Bing|2012|p=368}} Some émigrés believed that the political situation in Yugoslavia, especially among Croats, was conducive to an uprising. Consequently, nineteen members of the [[Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood]] terrorist organisation launched an [[Bugojno group|armed incursion]] into Yugoslavia in mid-1972, hoping to incite a rebellion that would lead to the re-establishment of the NDH. After a month of deadly skirmishes with the authorities, the incursion ended in failure.{{sfn|Tokić|2018|pp=71–72}}

Pirker died in August 1972, and his funeral drew 100,000 supporters. The size of the crowd attending the funeral confirmed continued broad support for Dabčević-Kučar and Tripalo, irrespective of their recent purge.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|p=254}}

To reduce the popular support for the Croatian nationalists, Tito granted many of the demands of the ousted SKH leaders. For example, export companies were allowed to retain 20 per cent of foreign exchange earnings instead of 7–12 percent while tourism companies increased their retention of foreign currency earnings from 12 per cent to 45 per cent. [[Devaluation]] of the [[Yugoslav dinar]] by 18.7 per cent, increased the value of the retained foreign currency income on the domestic market.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|p=259}}

The new SKH leadership was unwilling to undo the changes implemented by their predecessors and subsequently lost support from the Croatian Serbs.{{sfn|Jakovina|2012|p=413}} Some Serbs called for the constitution of Croatia to be amended to redefine Croatia as a national state of both Croats and Serbs and create a Serb committee in the Sabor. Those ideas were defeated by Grbić, who held the position of deputy [[speaker of the Croatian Parliament]]; as a result, Serbian nationalists denounced Grbić as a traitor to their cause.{{sfn|Grbić|2012|pp=347–348}}

The [[1974 Yugoslav Constitution]] preserved the 1971 reforms almost entirely, expanded the economic powers of the constituent republics, and granted reformist demands related to banking, commerce, and foreign currency.{{sfn|Rusinow|2007|p=144}}

===Legacy in the final decades of Yugoslavia===
In the aftermath of the 1971 purge, the authorities began to [[pejorative]]ly refer to the events that had transpired as the {{lang|hr|Maspok}},{{sfn|Batović|2017|p=236}} a blend word of {{lang|hr|masovni pokret}} meaning "[[mass movement (politics)|mass movement]]",{{sfn|Irvine|2007|p=155}} as a reference to the [[politicisation]] of the masses to ensure the involvement of actors beyond the SKH in Croatia's politics.{{sfn|Kursar|2006|p=146}} The term ''Croatian Spring'' was coined retroactively, after the 1971 purges, by those holding a more favourable view of the events.{{sfn|Kursar|2006|p=143}} The latter term was not permitted to be publicly used in Yugoslavia until 1989.{{sfn|Batović|2017|p=236}}

The end of the Croatian Spring ushered in a period known as the Croatian Silence ({{lang|hr|Hrvatska šutnja}}),{{efn|Also referred to as the "silent Croatia" in English sources.{{sfn|Rusinow|2007|p=142}}}} which lasted until the late 1980s, during which the public kept its distance from the unpopular imposed authorities.{{sfn|Vujić|2012|p=17}}{{sfn|Haug|2012|p=260}} Discussion about the position of the Croatian Serbs was avoided by the new Croatian leadership, and Grbić and others became concerned that the question would be left to the Serbian Orthodox Church and nationalists from Serbia to pose solutions without any counterargument.{{sfn|Grbić|2012|pp=347–348}}

The Croatian Spring was a significant event for all of Yugoslavia. Reformist factions in the SKS, SKM and the [[League of Communists of Slovenia]] were also suppressed by the end of 1972,{{sfn|Ramet|2006|pp=260–262}} replaced by mediocre and obedient politicians. During this period, pressure for the complete breakup of Yugoslavia intensified, religious leaders gained influence, and the Partisan legacy that legitimised the state was weakened.{{sfn|Irvine|2007|pp=168–169}} The purges of the 1970s in Croatia and elsewhere in Yugoslavia drove many reformist communists and supporters of social democracy away from politics in the country's final decades.{{sfn|Rusinow|2007|p=144}}

From 1989, several people previously involved with the SKH or {{lang|hr|Matica hrvatska}} during the Croatian Spring returned to Croatian politics. Budiša and Gotovac had leading roles in the [[Croatian Social Liberal Party]] (HSLS), which was formed before the [[1990 Croatian parliamentary election]]. Čičak was prominent in the HSS. In January 1989, Marko and Vladimir Veselica, Tuđman, Šošić, and Ladan launched an initiative to found the [[Croatian Democratic Union]] (HDZ).{{sfn|Budimir|2010|pp=83–85}} Dissatisfied with Tuđman's election to lead the HDZ, the Veselica brothers left,{{sfn|Veselinović|2016|p=76}} and formed the [[Croatian Democratic Party]] (HDS) in November. The HDZ gained [[Stjepan Mesić]], another SKH official ousted after the Croatian Spring. Dabčević-Kučar, Tripalo, and Haramija formed the [[Coalition of People's Accord]] coalition as independents, supported by several parties, including the HSLS and HDS.{{sfn|Budimir|2010|pp=83–85}} The HDZ won the elections, Tuđman became the [[President of the Presidency of SR Croatia|President of the Presidency]] (later President) and Mesić became the President of the Executive Council (later referred to as Prime Minister).{{sfn|Budimir|2010|p=73}}