40,000, and wrote of the "Bleiburg myth", stating that estimates of hundreds of thousands of victims were greatly exaggerated. Tuđman cited Allied reports that by June 1, 1945, a total of 26,399 members of "Yugoslav quisling forces" had been turned over from Bleiburg and other parts of Austria to the new authorities (later a total of 29,792 prisoners), of whom 12,196 were Croats, 5,480 Serbs, 8,263 Slovenes, and 400 Montenegrins. The events were also discussed in November 1945, when Stalin mentioned in a conversation with Polish Communist leader Władysław Gomułka that the Yugoslav partisans had shot 14,000 of some 34,000 Croatian captives. The first systematic research was conducted in the early 1990s, when Croatian demographer Vladimir Žerjavić published several papers and analyzes on the subject. He compared the demographic losses with available data on the actual losses during the war. In a 1990 work, Žerjavić estimated that a total of 70,000 people of all nationalities died in the events attributed to Bleiburg and Viktring. 11,600 of those lost their lives before the official surrender. In a 1992 work, Žerjavić estimated that the victims included between 45,000 and 55,000 Croats and Bosniaks, 8,000 to 10,000 Slovenes, and around 2,000 Serbs and Montenegrins. In 1995, he segmented the Croat-Bosniak losses to 45,000 Croats and 4,000 Bosniaks around Bleiburg and during the death marches, and a further 4,000 Croats and 2,000 Bosniaks in "individual cleansings" from 1945 to 1947. In 1991, the Croatian government established the Commission on Establishment of Wartime and Post-war Victims of the Republic of Croatia, which gathered data on the human losses of Croatia during the Second World War. Geiger notes that the Commission practiced a selective approach, focusing mostly on documenting Croat victims, primarily those not registered in previous Yugoslav censuses of victims. In 1999, the commission published the preliminary data of their research for the territory of the Republic of Croatia. The data lists 13,300 persons who lost their lives at Bleiburg and on the "Way of the Cross" which includes 5,503 members of the Ustaše militia, 3,101 Croatian Home Guards, 2,492 unclassified members of the Croatian Armed Forces, and 2,204 others or unidentified. The data for persons "killed outside of combat" is not categorized by year of death. The commission cited that, according to Slovenian estimates, there were around 190,000 victims in the graves in Slovenia alone. The commission was dissolved in 2002, and no further