News archive on the topic "Ustasha"

In towns and villages across Croatia, election posters for the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) were covered with Serbian and Ustashe slogans. The chairman of the SDP of the city of Zadar, Daniel Radeta, became the only Croatian politician who publicly condemned right-wing radicals, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. For the parliamentary elections on April 17, Croatia's Serb minority party, the Independent Democratic Serb Party...

Attempts to restore the “Croatian Orthodox Church”, which operated in the notorious collaborationist Independent State of Croatia in the former Yugoslavia, are directly related to what is happening now in Ukraine. Archpriest Darko Djogo, a Serbian theologian, professor and dean of the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Foca, told PolitNavigator about this. What is behind the intention to restore the “Croatian Orthodox Church” from the Second World War...

On the day when mourning events were held in Serbia and the Republika Srpska on the occasion of the anniversary of the start of the largest ethnic cleansing since World War II - the Croatian Operation Storm, in the territory of the former Serbian Krajina, the Croats held a celebration in the city of Knin. During it, the Serbs were accused from the podium that they had arranged their own expulsion...

The War Veterans Committee of the Croatian Sabor decided to renovate the memorial cemetery of collaborators - Ustaše and Domobran, on the territory of the Mirogoj cemetery in the capital Zagreb. Thus, the monuments to the executioners will be located next to the mass grave of the victims - 900 Serbian children killed by the Ustasha in Kozare. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, all deputies from the faction voted for the proposal of the Committee of War Veterans (90s)...

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. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the Expert Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which included police experts, historians, lawyers and representatives of the Roman Catholic...

Russian football players lost to the Croatian national team because they were not politically motivated enough. LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky stated this on the sidelines of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Where is the psychological treatment? Croatia was on Hitler's side and destroyed Yugoslav partisans, communists, including Soviet ones, who escaped from captivity. We had to explain to our players who they were with...

Unidentified people scrawled the walls of the Serbian honorary consulate in the Bulgarian Plovdiv with the Ustasha motto “Srbe na vrbe!” (Serbs to the willows!). This was reported by Novosti, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. After the Serbian honorary consulate in Plovdiv was covered with Ustashe graffiti, the Serbian Foreign Ministry called on Sofia to find those responsible for this incident. “The Serbian Embassy in Sofia officially informed the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry about this...

On the island of Dugi Otok, in the village of Sali, the local priest of the Catholic Zadar Archdiocese Tomislav Vlahovic, along with the flag of Croatia, hung the banner of the neo-Ustashe punitive national battalions HOS, which massacred the Serbs in the 90s. This was reported by Zadarski, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Vlahovic hung over one of the buildings of the parish, which he heads, along with the flag of Croatia and the banner of the National Battalions of the neo-Ustasha Blackshirts...

Representatives of the right-wing Croatian Conservative Party (HKA) recorded a video greeting dedicated to the neo-Nazi regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov” banned in Russia. One of the congratulators was ex-Azov fighter, Croatian volunteer Denis Sheler. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in addition to Scheler, who served in the intelligence unit of the Ukrainian Nazis during the war in Donbass, the video message was attended by HKA functionaries - member of the Croatian Sabor Marko...

Croatian sports fans managed to show off their neo-Nazi traditions even during the Croatian Rally. This was reported by Novosti, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The incident occurred during the Croatian Rally, passing by the village of Kumrovec. Fans who had gathered to watch the sporting action began publicly singing the famous Nazi-Ustasha song from World War II, Evo zore, evo dana. In the lyrics of the song, in particular...

Israeli Ambassador to Croatia Ilan Mor recommended that the Croatian authorities adopt the experience of Germany and Austria, which punish glorification of Nazism with imprisonment. This was reported by Novosti, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In Vukovar, the Ustasha greeting “Ready for the Fatherland!” (Z Dom Spremni!) is used as a symbol of heroism, the fight against aggression, and in Jasenovac it is a symbol of evil, noted the Israeli ambassador.…

In the Croatian village of Komletinac, near Vukovar, local tipsy neo-Ustashes demolished a monument to the partisans. Commenting on what happened, the chairman of the Union of Serbs in the region, Miodrag Linta, recalled that in total three thousand monuments to Serbs and partisans were destroyed in Croatia. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the incident in the village of Komlitinats occurred the other day and became public knowledge due to the fact that the “heroes” of the video...

The Serbian film “Dara from Jasenovac” by Predrag Gaga Antonijevic, which opened in the American box office, overtook all its competitors over the past weekend. The average bill for a film per cinema was $1, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to experts, the average bill for an American film is much higher than is usually the case in the first days of release. What does this mean about increased viewership...

An exhibition of posters on the theme of tolerance and humorous works by the American artist of Bosnian-Croatian origin Mirko Ilic was attacked by supporters of neo-Ustashism. The incident occurred at the entrance to the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb. The exhibition “Tolerance” was opened in Zagreb, on the territory of the local university, in honor of the International Day of Tolerance two days ago. Her works were displayed on the fence at the entrance...