During the period following the end of World War II, a process of big political expatriation of Croatian population started on the territory of the nowadays Republic of Croatia and it significantly increased an already considerable rate of Croatian emigration. However, the circumstances and the reasons for emigration became somehow different compared to those towards the end of the 19th and during the first half of the 20th century. Actually, this time the reasons for emigration were political as much as economic, mainly because of the situation Croatian people found themselves in. The main reason why a high number of people were forced to emigrate was their disagreement with the totalitarian communist regime of Yugoslavia. A large number of them did not leave their country with the intention of never returning, but simply hoping that one day Croatia would become a free democratic state they would freely be able to get back to. After their arrival to the United States of America a lot of our emigrants who took part in these migration processes were those who actively joined different political emigration organisations. That's why it's not surprising that during the years before the Croatian war of independence a lot of them became the carriers of some very specific national concepts. During their emigration they tried to warn the public openly about the suppression our people in Croatia were suffering, even if they would risk their own freedom. The fact is that a lot of our immigrants in the United States of America considerably contributed in ideological and materialistic way to the process of the establishment of the independent Republic of Croatia.