In the article war fiction, written between 1945 and 1970, in considered as a litmus paper of modifications of the attitude to the Communist idea in Croatia, and Yugoslavia. The author deals with modifications in depicting protagonists, notably partisans. In the first period after the war their activity is conceptualized as a journey through time to a clear goal. Whilst in the second that is to say in the 1950s it is transformed into a roaming that is after all overcome, from the 1960s the roaming is never overcome and thus the journey of protagonists ends with no goal. The first journey exemplifies the earliest communist vision of the bright future to which the partisans, and the society, proceed. The second exemplifies the moment of hesitation that emerges during the journey but is overcome. The third exemplifies hesitation that is presented as a senseless state of affairs. The first journey is associated with the communist orthodoxy, the second with its critical reevaluations, the third with decadent tendencies.