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Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perkovic and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert

c/world · u/babysandpiper@sopuli.xyz · 395 points

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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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u/Redex68@lemmy.world · 4 points

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

u/Karrion409@lemmy.world · 1 points

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 ?

u/Redex68@lemmy.world · 4 points

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

u/Sektor@lemmy.world · -1 points

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.

u/gwilikers@lemmy.ml · 2 points

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!

u/GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 points

I think it implies two things.

1. Nazi's are dead because they are relics of the past

1. if a Nazi is alive today, they should be dead because they are a relic of the past

u/Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip · 2 points

I know it's a popular saying, but idk if it cancels shit out.

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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*.

u/breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 10 points

By “criminally prosecuted” the poster refers to the fact that the nazi salute is illegal in Croatia — a fact mentioned in the article.

u/antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 points

the small minority of *removed* did the salute

The words "za dom spremni" are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.

u/RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works · 2 points

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

u/antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 points

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.

u/antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 points

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.

u/cygnus@lemmy.ca · 4 points

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

u/cygnus@lemmy.ca · 50 points

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

u/ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 23 points

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

u/ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 5 points

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?

u/FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 101 points

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

u/M137@lemmy.world · 0 points

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.

u/Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 15 points

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

u/cygnus@lemmy.ca · 181 points

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

u/rumimevlevi@lemmings.world · 19 points

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

u/Karrion409@lemmy.world · 18 points

This shit really is just on the rise globally huh ? Time to bust out the Ole M1 Garand

u/MoonRaven@feddit.nl · 16 points

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

u/avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 10 points

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.

u/Redex68@lemmy.world · 7 points

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

u/SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 6 points

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.

u/itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 6 points

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

u/huppakee@feddit.nl · -4 points

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.

u/selokichtli@lemmy.ml · -5 points

Hey, be wary of a ban in case **you** dehumanize Nazis in some Lemmy communities.

u/f34r@sh.itjust.works · -15 points

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 *removed* 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.