A poignant scene in the PDF described Tuđman’s final days in 1999. Suffering from Alzheimer’s, he recognized a nurse but not his own son. The man who had once thundered in speeches now whispered at the end of a bureaucratic tether. His death left a vacuum no leader could fill. Two decades later, Ana sat in a pub in Split, listening to an old man named Marko talk about tuđmanovac (the political legacy of Tuđman). "He was our savior," Marko insisted, "but also our jailer." Ana nodded. The PDF’s verified narratives showed how Croatia’s post-Tuđman leaders struggled to reconcile his role in independence with the authoritarianism it required.