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.”
right wing
Nazi
You don’t have to say it twice…
How is a “pro-Nazi salute” different from a “Nazi salute”?
Thank you for asking the important question. I came here to up-vote your comment.
One of them shows you that the media is complicit
It’s an ustaše salute, they were buddies with Nazis.
Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I’d consider it a Nazi salute.
I don’t think it’s right hand salute, if you mean the thing Musk did
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.
It´s because he makes a living with it
I’ve always wondered what the difference is between a “nazi sympathizer” and a nazi
None … it’s always OK to punch a Nazi … and its also OK to punch a Nazi sympathizer
Maybe they’re only a Nazi if they’re a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they’re only a sparkling fascist.
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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?
Fucking clowns, I hate Thompson so much
Napalm is a problem solver. Just sayin.
If your problem is “too many Vietnamese children aren’t on fire” then it’s a problem solver, yeah.
Nothing about napalm says it only needs to be used for that. What it has been used for before says nothing about someone’s wishes for what it can be used for now. Your comment is dumb as fuck.
I’m for using it to help cleanse Nazi.
Dumbasses.
This shit really is just on the rise globally huh ? Time to bust out the Ole M1 Garand
You probably can only bust a nut. Right wing conservatives are on a rise and nobody with a playstation, Netflix subscription and a plan to have no kids so they can travel is going to take on the streets.
Well i don’t have Netflix i have a media server. I dont have a Playstation i have a pc. And I dont like traveling. So what now ?
Oh, than by all means, take M1 and headshot some nazis.
It has been equally present here since independence basically. The concert just drew them out of the woodworks more than usual
I’m not a fan of him at all, but I have to say that every information in this article is misleading. Of course that the small minority of retards did the salute, however, this for sure is not a representative of the whole event. Marko did not perform this salute. This is a lie. I hope they get criminally prosecuted.
By “criminally prosecuted” the poster refers to the fact that the nazi salute is illegal in Croatia — a fact mentioned in the article.
the small minority of retards did the salute
The words “za dom spremni” are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.
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.
80 years later, the number of Ustasha supporters exceeded the number of Ustasha victims in World War II. People really do have short memories.
pro-Nazi salute?
You mean ehhhh
A Nazi salute?
Real antiaemitism is not critisized by the.governments and pro israel people but condemn anti occupation people
Right wingers and Nazism is not too different from each other now.
Nazism has always been a right wing ideology.
Never was
*reverse astronaut-with-gun meme
When scrolled past this post i assumed it was news about some gay party somewhere, then I noticed the women aren’t dressed for that, than i noticed the headline was about something nazi happening at the party and only then i realised the gay part was only in my head because of the shirtless dude doing the nazi salute the headline is talking about. How is it possible all these right wing conservative people are so against anything gay but then decide to look like that and how are all of their likeminded people so ok with it? If i showed up to a pride somewhere they’d beat me up for it. So strange.
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.
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 that Thompson and his fans regularly use 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.
Hey, be wary of a ban in case you dehumanize Nazis in some Lemmy communities.
