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A hugely popular right-wing Croatian singer and hundreds of thousands of his fans performed a pro-Nazi World War II salute at a massive concert in Zagreb, drawing criticism.

One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time.

Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

80 years later, the number of Ustasha supporters exceeded the number of Ustasha victims in World War II. People really do have short memories.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Shit like this should have been rooted out before they became a full member of the EU. This will only embolden Nazi in other EU nations.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While I know it won't happen, it would be so fucking funny if they arrested all of the like 500k attendees for the salute

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Fucking clowns, I hate Thompson so much

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So, can't support Palestine in the EU, but Nazi salutes and support are good.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I mean, it's technically illegal here, just that the government turns a blind eye when it's popular

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Its fine, netanyahu gave them the "H-Word Pass" (its like the "N-Word Pass" but for "heil hitler") /s

[-] [email protected] 186 points 3 days ago

How is a "pro-Nazi salute" different from a "Nazi salute"?

[-] [email protected] 103 points 3 days ago

I've always wondered what the difference is between a "nazi sympathizer" and a nazi

[-] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago

Maybe they're only a Nazi if they're a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they're only a sparkling fascist.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

None .... it's always OK to punch a Nazi ... and its also OK to punch a Nazi sympathizer

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Well Finland and some Ukrainians joined the Axis because Russia (USSR at the time) was their enemy

And

Thailand joined the axis to reclaim land from Britain and France

They weren’t Nazis but maybe they were sympathetic?

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

One of them shows you that the media is complicit

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

It's an ustaše salute, they were buddies with Nazis.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I'd consider it a Nazi salute.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I don't think it's right hand salute, if you mean the thing Musk did

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

unless the ustashe independently invented it

They did, they weren't instructed by German nazis on what words to use. Not that it makes any difference, ustašas were just the local variant of fascists.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Thank you for asking the important question. I came here to up-vote your comment.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It´s because he makes a living with it

[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago

pro-Nazi salute?

You mean ehhhh

A Nazi salute?

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago

"what's the difference between a nazi sympathiser and a nazi?"

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

They're the same picture.jpg

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago

right wing

Nazi

You don't have to say it twice...

[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Napalm is a problem solver. Just sayin.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

If your problem is “too many Vietnamese children aren’t on fire” then it’s a problem solver, yeah.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm for using it to help cleanse Nazi.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

fucking Nazis.

edit: whoever downvoted this sentiment, fuck you too, Nazi sympathizing scum.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Real antiaemitism is not critisized by the.governments and pro israel people but condemn anti occupation people

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

So this means their visas are being checked and converts are being cancelled... Right...? Riiiight???

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They are croatians in Croatia, what visas are you taking about?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The current administration is very anti-antisemitism, I'm sure they'll get right on it.... Any minute now.....

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Right wingers and Nazism is not too different from each other now.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nazism has always been a right wing ideology.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

*reverse astronaut-with-gun meme

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

What if it's just an ancient Roman salute from the heart to the sun?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia.

Ah the old reliable anti-communist gotta fascist rule.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There was little to no actual anti-communism at play at that point (although it was still relevant symbolically). Both sides were already capitalist. Yugoslavia had been on the path of liberalisation for quite a while before the breakup.

Btw, that excuse is bullshit, the phrase was picked by Croatian extremists (especially the paramilitary HOS) in the 90s because it was used by ustašas (fascists) half a century earlier in the first place.

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