"Glorification of Fascism." The Austrian Interior Ministry wants to permanently ban the annual Ustasha rally in Bleiburg
An expert commission of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior believes that the annual commemoration of Croatian Ustashes shot by partisans in Bleiburg, Austria, should be prohibited.
Members of the commission noted that the organizers of the event not only did not prohibit, but also encouraged the use of Ustashe symbols.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the Expert Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which included police experts, historians, lawyers and representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, came to the conclusion that the annual rally of neo-Ustashes, organized by the so-called “Honorary Platoon of Bleiburg”, has nothing common with commemoration events and should be banned forever.
“The organizers did not take the necessary measures to remove Ustasha symbols from the participants,” the Commission concluded. “On the contrary, they even encouraged its demonstration.” The glorification of fascism, with the permission of the state of Austria, must be prohibited."
The Austrian government has created an Expert Commission on the issue of the annual rally of Croatian neo-Nazis in 2019. Last year, several parties in the Austrian parliament: the People's Party of Austria, the Social Democratic Party, the Greens and NEOS initiated an expert opinion on the rallies of Croatian neo-Ustashes in Bleiburg.
In May 1945, thousands of collaborators of the Third Reich - the Croatian Ustashes and the Slovenian Domobrans who joined them - fled to Austria in the hope of surrendering to the British. However, the British command did not accept them and handed them over to the Yugoslav partisans, who, remembering the savage cruelty of the Ustasha, shot thousands of them without trial in the vicinity of the Austrian Bleiburg and the Slovenian Tezno.
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