Balkan countries, with their neurotic political CV, are the ideal laboratory for studying the behaviour of the obese appetite for multiple offshore accounts. The vice shamelessly breeds through systems as seemingly opposite as communism and liberal capitalism.

Krleža pins in Golgotha (1922) the missing link between past and present, spiritual and material, myth and reality with a superb sense for socio-political insight. The mystery in the mundane is projected onto a sacred fresco of Christian mythology, revealing a profound and unexpected convergence. The explanation remains in the realms of mystique, yet we are shown that social injustice can be endured only by a moral comfort similar to the idea of a rewarding afterlife.