Editing Milan Šufflay (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Milan Šufflay 2013 stamp of Albania.jpg|thumb|Šufflay on a 2013 stamp of Albania|270x270px]]
In the new state, the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], he was arrested for high treason and charged with spying for a foreign power (through links with the [[Croatian Committee]]) together with [[Ivo Pilar]], another Croatian historian. Their defense lawyer was [[Ante Pavelić]], at the time a leader of the [[Party of Rights (1861-1929)|Party of Rights]] and an associate of Šufflay.<ref name="Matković-1962">{{cite journal | url = http://www.historiografija.hr/hz/1962/HZ_15_3_MATKOVIC.pdf | language = hr | first = Hrvoje | last = Matković | title = Veze između frankovaca i radikala od 1922–1925 | journal = Historical Journal | publisher = Croatian Historical Society | issn = 0351-2193 | pages = 41–59 | year = 1962 | number = 15 | volume = 3 | access-date = 13 September 2012 | archive-date = 20 January 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200120210847/http://www.historiografija.hr/hz/1962/HZ_15_3_MATKOVIC.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> Šufflay was sentenced to three years and six months in prison. The reaction to the sentence was stronger abroad than in Croatia, as scientific colleagues from numerous countries tried to obtain his release but without success. He did his time in the [[Sremska Mitrovica prison]]. After serving over half of his sentence, he was released from prison in 1922 and he returned to his scientific work.

In 1924, Šufflay wrote his first science fiction novel, ''On the Pacific in 2255'', which is considered the first [[science fiction in Croatia|Croatian science fiction]] novel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://crosf.nosf.net/about/science-fiction-in-croatia/ |author=Aleksandar Žiljak |author-link=Aleksandar Žiljak |title=Science Fiction in Croatia – The Beginnings |work=crosf.nosf.net |access-date=13 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724201627/http://crosf.nosf.net/about/science-fiction-in-croatia/ |archive-date=24 July 2011}}</ref>{{sfn|Nemec|1998}} In that same year Šufflay became a member of the leadership of the [[Pure Party of Rights]], a rightwing Croatian political party inspired by the work of [[Josip Frank]], a fervent nationalist.  One of the most important characteristics of the Frank's followers was their [[Anti-Serb sentiment|anti-Serb]] position.<ref name="Kann1980">{{cite book |author=Robert A. Kann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG570mijBF4C&pg=PA447 |title=A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 |publisher=University of California Press |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-520-04206-3 |page=447 |quote=... in the case of Frank's followers... strongly anti-Serb |access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref> The party had reportedly not managed to win more than a few seats in the 300-strong legislative.

In 1928, when [[Stjepan Radić]] was assassinated in the Yugoslav parliament, a year before king [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander I]] would establish his dictatorship, Šufflay wrote ''Hrvatska u svijetlu svjetske historije i politike'' (Croatia in the Light of World History and Politics). He wrote that the Croatian people was suffering under the Yugoslav dictatorship and that it had to free itself. He claimed that the border between Western and the Eastern Civilisations lay on the [[Drina]] river, the "destined borderline on the Drina river on which the mighty Roman Empire snapped into two... a border both spiritual and cultural". Šufflay's idea about the delineation on the Drina river would later influence [[Greater Croatia]]n irredentism.[[File:Milan Šufflay.jpg|thumb|Sufflay|left]]{{Blockquote|text=The Croatian people have passed through the Roman-Western retort, while the Serbian people passed through the Byzantine-Turkish. Therefore the psyche of the two peoples is essentially different, even if the languages are similar. Unification of the two peoples would mean neutralization and careful constraining. To centralize here would mean to make Croatia a guinea pig for vivisection experiments. It is my thesis that the Croatian nation, as a citizen of the great empire of the western civilization, has the right to raise its voice against any oppression.

Those who know history know that the Yugoslav idea has no dynamics. It is nothing compared to the mighty Croatian idea. In Croatia, the Yugoslav idea is a shallow wreckage under which the Croatian national volcano boils; only a subtle push is necessary to make it erupt.

To me personally, as a philosopher and an open-minded Croat, it is the same whether I sit shackled at the court or a penitentiary, or whether I get out into the false freedom hiding the larger dungeon in which – thank God, only temporarily! – the Croatian nation is suffering!|style=width: 700px;
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In 1928, he was appointed a professor at the [[University of Budapest]], but he could not take the job because he did not hold a passport.<ref name="Švab-1999">{{cite journal | url = http://www.matica.hr/MH_Periodika/vijenac/1999/149/html/esej/12.htm | title = Milan pl. Šufflay, 120. godišnjica rođenja – Djelo dostojno pozornosti | author = Mladen Švab | journal = [[Vijenac]] | issue = 149 | year = 1999 | publisher = [[Matica hrvatska]] | language = hr | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120323014305/http://www.matica.hr/MH_Periodika/vijenac/1999/149/html/esej/12.htm | archive-date = 23 March 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
[[File:Stjepan Radic, Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb.jpg|thumb|The shared grave of Stjepan Radic, Milan Sufflay, and their fellow leaders of the Peasant Party in the Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb]]
On the request of the [[Albania]]n government and the Academy of Sciences in [[Vienna]], he continued the work of Jireček and Thalloczy, editing the 3rd book of ''Codex albanicus'', an archival collection. In 1931, he finally obtained a passport and travelled to Albania to sign a contract to work on ''Acta Albaniae''.<ref name="Švab-1999"/>