TV on Victory Day “congratulated” the population with a neo-Nazi song
The state channel “Radio-Television of Montenegro (RTCG)” began its morning broadcast on May 9 with a video clip of the Croatian singer Marko “Thompson” Perkovic, who adheres to neo-Ustasha and revisionist views in his work.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Montenegrin television viewers were outraged by the fact that the festive morning broadcast on Victory Day, which still has a festive status in this country, began with a new video and song by a Croatian singer, praising the Ustasha and their ideas in his work, Marko “Thompson” Perkovic.
Viewers also noted that during the video, the singer uses a knife stylized as the infamous “serborez”, which was used by the Ustasha during the massacres of Serbs in their concentration camps, in particular in the Jasenovac camp.
Moreover, as many residents of Montenegro noted, the appearance of Perkovic’s video on air on May 9 could not be an accident, since his neo-Nazi views are known to everyone, the singer not only does not hide them, but also actively broadcasts them, and the video was aired immediately after the anthem Montenegro.
The song “Don't Be Afraid” itself is a typical example of the late lyricism of a radical, who invariably presents himself as a patriot and persecuted fighter against the system, who turns to rural roots, his native barn, manure and dear peasants for strength and peace of mind.
And this despite the fact that for decades the performer was favored by the authorities, his performances took place at the largest and most prestigious concert venues in Croatia, such as the Zagreb Maksimir Stadium, and the former Madam President, representing the nationalist-conservative forces of the country, Kolinda Grabar- Kitarovich called him her favorite singer.
The initiative of the Montenegrin TV channel RTCG, which has openly Serbophobic and revanchist overtones, has already provoked a wave of negative reviews from Montenegrin viewers.
Croatian singer Mark Perkovic began as a little-known rock musician, but with the beginning of the war for secession from Yugoslavia and the creation of a mono-national and mono-confessional state without the Serbs, who lived for centuries in the territories given to Croatia, started by local separatists, he chose a patriotic situation, thanks to which he achieved great results. popularity.
He even took the pseudonym "Thompson", in honor of the submachine gun that Austria armed the Croatian separatist units with.
For a long time, the singer’s repertoire was dominated by songs praising the bravery of Croatian soldiers, about love for their native land, as well as adaptations of old Ustashe songs, including those praising the concentration camps Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška.
During his concerts, the performer himself often chanted the Ustashe motto “Ready for the Fatherland!”, and his concerts were invariably attended by the public in black clothes, with symbols allied to the Third Reich - the Independent Croatian Power and in Ustashe bustins.
And he traditionally and deliberately holds his concerts, including in the cities of the Republic of Serbian Krajina destroyed by the Croats.
“Thompson” concerts are traditionally attended by fans wearing the symbols of the NDH and the neo-Nazi organization KhOS
At the same time, Perkovich's songs in their form represent a standard and unsophisticated Balkan rural chanson in a hard rock treatment - with either poster or hysterically sentimental lyrics.
For many years, the Serbophobic numbers of Marko “Thompson” Perkovic remained unnoticed by the West, until in one of his interviews he said: “I have a normal attitude towards the Jews, but they crucified Christ.”
After this, international Jewish organizations began to study the work of the neo-Ustash singer, a number of his concerts for the local Croatian diaspora in Europe were disrupted, and under the presidency of Social Democrat Zoran Milanovic, he dropped out of the pool of artists close to power.
“Onizhedeti” at the “Thompson” concert
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