Ready for the Homeland? Šimunić and a bit of normal fascism




4 Responses to Ready for the Homeland? Šimunić and a bit of normal fascism

  1. inavukic says:

    Things are more complex than put in this article, I believe and my belief is based on facts. While the five-pointed red star – the symbol of communism, the symbol of more murders of innocent people than the WWII Ustashe regime combined, is flaunted freely (often to spite and incite) and communist crimes WWII and post-WWII go unpunished and not condemned, there will be reactions as this. They have more to do with mass disillusionment with the government than with WWII Ustashe and Boris Dezulovic who is mentioned in this article knows it, I’m sure, but as journalists often do, he is biased and I have yet to read an article of his addressing the need to process communist crimes and to ban communist symbols.

    • Hej sloveni says:

      Ina, clicking on your username link gave me all the info I suspected of someone who is trying to defend this act and refocus attention on communism, which both the article and the act in question have no relation to. Any comment that begins with the author stating his/her opinions are based on “facts” that are never given usually raises my eyebrow. Finding a picture of Stepinac on your userpage as well as odes to Tudjman, Thompson, and other examples of Croatian ethnocentrism negates any objectivity on this matter you might offer.

      “Croatia: Serbian Cyrillic Signs To Vukovar Are What Swastika Is To Victims Of Nazi Exterminations” are you serious? Is this part of your “tireless” volunteer work on “humanitarian aid”?

  2. Ivan says:

    Sadly, things are no different in neighbouring Serbia and, I imagine, in most of the countries of the region. What is clearly a problem of the education system goes untreated. Young unemployed, frustrated men (frustrated because even if they were to find employment it would likely be poorly paid and uninspiring) are an easy target for extremist ideology and are under-equipped by the education they have received to find an outlet for their frustrations. The problem is, of course, compounded by the inability (or unwillingness) of the political class to deal with issues such as these head on but the real tragedy is that it hasn’t occurred to anybody to educate a new generation of citizens who will be able to live their lives without unthinkingly resorting to hatred as a quick fix for their economic problems. If we think of culture as constructed then the educated elites in former Yugoslav states like Croatia and Serbia are like an army of inept builders who focus entirely on building and rebuilding a flimsy first floor without paying any attention to hard task of first laying solid foundations.

  3. PEN says:

    Za dom spremni is indelibly associated with the vile Ustasha regime. Those apologists attempting to somehow equate this wartime slogan as acceptable because it was uttered by some Croat figure in the distant past, are being disingenuous to say the least. As for Inavukic’s pathetic attempt to somehow compare Ustasha crimes with those of the Partisans, well all I can say is God help you if that’s your take on history. Undoubtedly the Partisans were responsible for heinous crimes, but genocide was not one of them. I am no fan of the communist Partisans and their methods, but at least they tried to unite the peoples of Yugoslavia and fought the Germans. I’m afraid there are too many Croats both at home and abroad who appear to suffer a collective amnesia when it comes to the second world war and their role in it.

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