did not have Tito's signature. Historian Nikolai Tolstoy called it "a clear forgery". British historian Keith Lowe dealt with the end of the war in his book Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, where he wrote: "For countless millions of people throughout the eastern half of the continent, therefore, the end of the war did not signal ‘liberation’ at all, it merely heralded a new era of state repression. The Nazi terror was over: the Communist terror was about to begin". In popular culture The first film that mentioned the Bleiburg events was Sokol Did Not Love Him (Sokol ga nije volio), directed by Branko Schmidt and released in 1988. The surrender at Bleiburg was the subject of a 1999 Croatian film, Četverored, directed by Jakov Sedlar. It is based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Ivan Aralica. A 2004 Croatian film, Long Dark Night (Duga mračna noć), directed by Antun Vrdoljak, covers the wartime in a Slavonian village from 1941 to 1945 and post-war events in Slovenia. A longer version of the movie aired on the Croatian Radiotelevision as a TV series in 13 episodes. The Miner (Rudar''), a 2017 Slovenian film directed by Hanna Antonina Wojcik Slak, is based on the discovery of the Barbara Pit massacre in 2009. Croatian-Australian painter Charles Billich painted a series of works on the event. Memorial sites See also Allied war crimes during World War II List of massacres in Slovenia Mass killings under communist regimes Operation Keelhaul Notes Bibliography Further reading Primary sources 1945 in Yugoslavia Aftermath of World War II in Yugoslavia British collusion with Yugoslav Partisan World War II crimes Conflicts in 1945 Contemporary history of Slovenia Independent State of Croatia Massacres in Yugoslavia Yugoslav Partisan war crimes in World War II Mass murder in 1945 World War II prisoner of war massacres Politicides Political and cultural purges Political repression in Communist Yugoslavia Post–World War II forced migrations United Kingdom–Yugoslavia relations