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

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    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.

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    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

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

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    How is a “pro-Nazi salute” different from a “Nazi salute”?

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      I’ve always wondered what the difference is between a “nazi sympathizer” and a nazi

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        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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        None … it’s always OK to punch a Nazi … and its also OK to punch a Nazi sympathizer

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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?

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

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          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.

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      It has been equally present here since independence basically. The concert just drew them out of the woodworks more than usual

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      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.

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        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 ?

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    fucking Nazis.

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

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              Yes, but that’s my point! You said, ‘The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.’ However, Nazi Zombies, while being dead, are still evil. And therefore not good.

              I didn’t spend a year of my undergrad studying Logic for nothin!

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          I know it’s a popular saying, but idk if it cancels shit out.
          Like, try taking about dead Nazis & how good they are - feels weird bcs of all the bad shit they did.

          So no, perhaps just no good Nazis.

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            I think it implies two things.

            1. Nazi’s are dead because they are relics of the past
            2. if a Nazi is alive today, they should be dead because they are a relic of the past
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    Real antiaemitism is not critisized by the.governments and pro israel people but condemn anti occupation people

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