At one time, Mirko Kovač stated: "One could say that in Croatia there are two types nationalism: primitive and petty-bourgeois, but fortunately they are in conflict". True, they often knew how to intertwine and complement each other, but still they differed in intensity and ways of expression, in fact until recently they had separate lives on an apparent level, until after the summer concert of the icon of the Croatian radical right Marko Perković Thompson at the Zagreb hippodrome - in fact an open Ustasha dernek where about half a million of his "fans" gathered - definitely did not merge into a unique chauvinist torrent, after which the weak political and ideological brakes that Plenković's government had until then reluctantly and selectively restrained the increasingly loud and numerous "unruly crowd" of Ustašoids (usually fan groups: Hajduk's Torcide, Dinamo's BBB, etc.) completely gave way. Today, now without any restraint and control, they brutally and openly express intolerance and hatred towards Serbs and everything related to Serbs in Croatia. And where, as a society, such disgraceful and senseless behavior is leading us, could best be read by the total collapse of all moral and human values, in fact everything that we witnessed during this month (November) before, during and around the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Vukovar in 1991 (public holiday from 2020).
THRILLING WITH THE TRUTH
As in the words of Matija Bećković, the flattering but already flourishing bard of Serbian nationalism, "Kosovo the most expensive Serbian word", so for the vast majority of Croats, the hero city Vukovar has the status of a national shrine, it is a symbol of suffering and suffering in which the few and poorly armed defenders, with huge casualties (more than 2700 dead volunteers and civilians), bravely resisted a far superior enemy for almost three months (JNA and Serbian paramilitary forces), who, after conquering the totally devastated, ruined city, committed terrible, mass war crimes against captured Croatian soldiers and civilians (Ovčara), including almost 400 people whose remains have not been found to this day. For years, the Serbian authorities have not responded to all inquiries from the Croatian side about where they might be buried and have been persistently silent, which only adds to the already dramatically increased inter-ethnic tensions in Vukovar itself, and ultimately in the relations between Zagreb and Belgrade. Therefore, for the vast majority of Croats, Vukovar is an unquestionable new-age national shrine, and it is known how the faithful treat the shrine: with awe and humility. She is untouchable and any questioning is defilement, so she is unquestionable and a victim Vukovar, but the problem is that in political, ideological and every other key, Vukovar as a "place of special homeland piety" in a wide nationalist spectrum has increasingly begun to be instrumentalized in favor of goals and content that have almost nothing to do with victimology, but exclusively serve to name-call and insult Serbs as enemies of Croatian national stability and security, as aggressors who even today, through Vučić's conception of the "Serbian world", have not given up on the "memorandum" of the Great Serbian project. Allegedly, he is being helped wholeheartedly by the Croatian Serbs under the leadership of Dr. Pupovac, who have never nor will they sincerely accept Croatia as their homeland. Of course, no one (or very few) mentions the tens of thousands of Serbs who, according to the relevant estimates, were during Milosevic aggression against the Republic of Croatia joined their Croatian fellow citizens in the defense of their home and the country in which they live. And while in Serbia they called them outcasts and traitors, in Croatia they were looked upon with suspicion, suspicion, they were (and remain) constantly under a magnifying glass, the majority have never been and will never be equal, and they were constantly told and let it be known that they are not welcome in the environment in which they live and work, i.e. that they are second-class citizens who must constantly prove their loyalty to the Croatian state if they want to be accepted, since they are members of the Croatian nation during the history of living together in two Yugoslavias, especially in the 1990s last century and the disintegration of the common state caused terrible evils. And when we are already talking about the mutually committed evil, about the Ustasha crimes, in fact the genocide of Serbs during the Second World War in NDH there is not a word, in fact today it is shamelessly denied that genocide was committed against the Serbs, trivializes and trivializes Jasenovac as a death camp and magically turns it into some kind of labor camp (in which the prisoners did not lack entertainment, cultural events and the like), in which only those who "offended the laws of the NDH" were imprisoned, which is more than a notorious lie, it is simply an unprecedented hogwash, but despite this in Croatia in everything (and in scientific and academic circles), he insists more and more, which only testifies to the defeating state of mind of our current politics and a huge part of public opinion, which without any reaction agrees with these eyeless manipulations with which even elementary historical truths are programmed and systematically falsified, and evident facts are twisted and twisted.
DISPUTED DECLARATION
Recently, a round table about Jasenovac was organized in the premises of the Croatian Parliament under the auspices of right-wing parliamentarians and with the participation of "experts" from the Croatian Nazi-revisionist "cream" in the premises of the Croatian Parliament. Ustasha crimes against Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascist Croats, crimes that they attributed without any evidence to communist, Great Serbian propaganda, and that Gordan Jandroković (HDZ), as the president of this highest national institution, did not react at all to all these provocations, which are ultimately subject to prosecution, because the Croatian legislature has the constitutional task of prosecuting all those who spread inter-ethnic hatred and thus violate the laws and endanger the constitutional order RH. Of course, the chief state prosecutor Ivan Turudić (who was appointed to the top position by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia Plenković, despite the fact that on the eve of his appointment, during a parliamentary hearing, he openly lied and denied proven connections with the political mafia and crime milieu), turned a deaf ear to this shame in the premises of the Parliament, which of course should not surprise anyone, because it was he who advocated and still advocates that every war and speech about the Homeland be critically criminalized, bringing him under "defamation of the foundations of our blood-won freedom, independence and statehood". And the legal sanctioning of those who present untruths about the victims of Vukovar and "deny the nature of the Homeland War" is soon on the agenda, because just these days various (defence) defense associations, on the initiative of the HDZ, i.e. the president of the Parliamentary Committee for War Veterans, Josip Đakić, organized a round table on the Declaration on the Homeland War and concluded that the time has finally come to legislatively prevent the systematic defamation of the "dignity of the Homeland War", which Plenković attributes to mostly non-national, to the Yugoslav radical left (which does not actually exist in the Republic of Croatia), regardless of the fact that the aforementioned Declaration openly turns its back on the truth in many respects. Namely, in the Declaration it is said that the Republic of Croatia waged a just and legitimate war of defense and liberation in which it defended its territory against Greater Serbian aggression, which in itself is not disputed, but how then to "fit" into that and explain the aggressive military operations of the Croatian army in BiH against the Bosniak side, from the late fall of 1992 to the spring of 1994, as Vesna warned at one time, during the discussion on the "nature of the Homeland War" Pusic. Will it, for example, become a punishable reminder of the judgments of the Hague Tribunal against six high-ranking officials of Herceg-Bosnia and the HVO (Croatian Defense Council), in which it is stated that the President of the Republic of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, was "the leader of a joint criminal enterprise in BiH". And these are just some of the open questions, while the cruel murders of more than 700 old people of Serbian nationality after the end of the military-police operation Storm in 1995 should not be ignored.
DOUBLE CONNOTATION
Just as Plenković, in order to form a new government, accepted a coalition with Penava's radical nationalists from the DP (Domovinski pokret), open promoters of the Ustašluk, and thus agreed to the informal legalization of the so-called double connotations of the greeting "Za dom spremni" thus opened up space for the double connotations of the Homeland War and the victims of Vukovar, which less and less affirm the real truth about the Homeland War, and more and more serve to unscrupulously "shut up the hole" and label anyone who critically warns or problematizes the open issues of our struggle for freedom and labels them traitors, enemies of the Croatian people. By the way, the story that members of the Croatian army were brave during the war with the Ustasha salute of the ZDS is a pure shameless lie, it was exclusively the salute of the "Hosova", a small but well-organized party paramilitary Paragina Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), which was later incorporated by Tuđman into the HV (Croatian Army), and whose party premises were "decorated" with pictures of Ante Pavelić and who openly advocated the rehabilitation of the NDH and the Ustaše. And so the Home Guard, Kramar Kler Ustaš nationalism (raised in the bosom of the Catholic Church in Croatia) based on exclusive anti-Serbian resentment became the revisionist framework of the majority part of Croatian politics. mainstream for the legitimate escalation of anti-Serb hysteria, which today "rolls" unchecked, without any leeway, through the streets of Croatian cities, galloping and spreading and becoming dominant in our political, but also all-round social, i.e. public scene. In short, the so-called with the double connotations of the Ustasha salute to the ZDS, the Homeland War and the cult of Vukovar, all freedom of thought is to be suspended, i.e. there is no such abomination, Ustasha hogwash, which cannot be justified, denied or attributed to the other/others with manipulative, double connotations.
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MENTAL JUSTIFICATIONS
Even 30 years after the Storm, the Serbs are made aware that in November, the month of the "Vukovar martyrdom", there is no place for them in that city, but they are also forbidden to hold any cultural events throughout the Republic of Croatia. Thus, in Split, a group of Torcida members under phantoms made it impossible to hold the traditional Days of Serbian Culture and prevented the performance of the folklore group, children from Novi Sad. In Rijeka, only thanks to the intervention of the police, the local beaters did not deal with the karate fighters from Serbia who participated in the Balkan championship. In Zagreb, a group of masked hooligans, singing Ustasha "songs", tried to prevent the opening of the exhibition "Ephemeris-legacy of Dejan Medaković" in the premises of the Serbian Cultural Center, and in Vukovar, the organizers (consulate of the Republic of Serbia) under pressure and threats from the (pro)defensive population, joined by Vukovar mayor Marijan Pavliček, had to extend the exhibition "Serbian Heroine of the Great War", dedicated to marking the end of the First World War. with the explanation that "it is extremely inappropriate to organize such an event in Vukovar in a month when the traumas (even after 30 years) from the Homeland War are still fresh". At the same time, the police told the Association of Veterans of the Homeland War and Anti-Fascists (VEDRA) that they could not guarantee their safety if they decided to lay wreaths from the Vukovar quay in the Danube for Croatian and Serbian civilian victims, so they had to do it (on their own) in Borovo Selo. Stipe Mlinarić, a parliamentary representative from Penavina DP, without batting an eye, told the representatives of VEDRA, but also Pupovac and the Serbs, that in Vukovar no one killed Serbs, but Serbs killed Croats. And what about the Serbs from Vukovar who brutally killed the phalanxes of Tomislav Merčep before Ovčara and in general before the siege of Vukovar, and to this day their number has not been accurately determined? We will not get an answer to these and similar "provocations" as long as we look at the sacrifice of Vukovar and other "holy sites of the Homeland War" through the lens of "double connotations", i.e. double standards, one for the Croats and the other for the Serbs.
