Editing Croatian Spring (section)

===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}}