Vlasta, my unyielding friend
With the Government, Vlasta lost its ideology, but not its ferocity. Vlado used to say about her: - Vlasta, my dear unyielding friend, not only my wife. –
In 1958, Vlado married Vlasta Beretić, an editor at Radio Zagreb and a translator from French.
The two came from two very different families. Vlasta was born into a wealthy family in Šibenik, and was a communist from an early age. When her father's company collapsed before the Second World War, she became an illegal at a very early age. She was in the Ustasha camp. Through family connections, they managed to get her out, after which she fled from Zagreb to join the partisans. At the end of the Second World War, she did not want any privileges. She got a job at Radio Zagreb, where she met Vlada.
At the moment she met Gotovec, she did not know that there were class enemies and the horrors that were happening in the Soviet Union. With the Government, Vlasta lost its ideology, but not its ferocity. Vlado used to say about her: - Vlasta, my dear unyielding friend, not only my wife. –
They were in a harmonious marriage until 1991, until Vlasta's death.