PALEO-EUROPE, AND NEO-FASHISM

Why Croatian Jews Boycotted This Year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day 

By Erin Blakemore Source

Policy on EU enlargement in the Balkans is quite selective.  The main selection criterion is "What did you do during the WWII, dad?". All the allies of Nazi Germany, and by that Axis forces, as well, are in EU - Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia. The similar criterion goes for EU sympathies - Muslims in Bosnia, and Shqiptars (Albaninas).   The only victims of choosing the wrong side are the Serbs, that are sentenced by EU on endlessly "fulfilling accession criteria". Criteria set by those who occupied Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohija, and now they are twisting our arm to recognize their criminal acting. What is the Serb's quilt?  Simply, on March 27, 1941., we rejected Hitler's generous offer to enter the Axis Pact, with all the benefits, and sided with England.  At that time almost all the Europe was under the German boot, except Britain (never "Great" again for us!), and Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was in force. We payed that decision with the death toll counting more than 1.5 million and souls. More than a 1 million, of that count, was killed in the Hitler's puppet Independent State of Croatia. Than, and since than, Serbs have been shredded, demonized, bombed, demolished, occupied, by our former allies and foes, jointly. What is the result of such policy? Neo-faschism in Europe, and in Croatia, in particular. Why? Because that behavior is favored and rewarded by EU!  [Comment by LG]

As neo-fascism grows in Croatia, the country is at a crossroads between denial and reality

Tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by Croatian Nazi collaborators at Jasenovac. (Petar Milošević - Wikipedia/Creative Commons). LG Comment: The author forgot to mention hundreds of thousands of Serbs murdered, not by "Nazi collaborators", but by the Croatian State policy on Serbs in Croatia- "one-third to be baptized, one third to be expelled, and one third to be killed". Concentration Death Camp "Jasenovac" was not formed by "Nazi collaborators", but by the Independent State of Croatia! Tito's communists tried to cover Croatian atrocities. They leveled Concentration Death Camp "Jasenovac", leaving an empty space for decades. In 1966., twenty years after the WWII, an impersonal stone flower was erected on the empty meadow as a "monument". The only death camps beside those Germans were formed, were in Croatia! It was was dedicated to the extermination of Serbs and Jews. Today, the extermination of Jews has its name - Holocaust. The extermination of Serbs has no name. That was the reason that the extermination of Serbs was tried, once again, in the last decade of previous century. This extermination is swept under the carpet. The Serb's response is called - aggression. Victims have become a genocidal nation! 

Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the grim history of the millions of people murdered during the systematic genocide that was carried out in Europe between 1939 and 1945. The sober ceremonies are a chance to remember those who died and recommit to resisting such atrocities in the future. But in one country, Jews were not present at the ceremonies in their honor this year. As the Associated Press reports, the Croatian Jewish community boycotted Holocaust Remembrance Day in protest of what members call their government’s failure to fight modern-day Nazism.

"The Victory of Germany is the Victory of Europe"
How prophetic and contemporary sounds words on a poster
from the Independent State of Croatia during the WWII.
"German-Croatian brotherhood in arms" is written bellow.
In 90's, Germany helped greatly the breaking up of Jugoslavia,
and a New Indipendent state of Croatia was formed, Just like
in 1941. It was the Third Reich than. Today it is EU.

It’s the second year the tribute has been boycotted in Croatia. Organizers tell the Associated Press that this year’s boycott was spurred by a memorial plaque in Jasenovac that includes the phrase “For Homeland Ready.” The phrase was used as a rallying cry by the Ustaša, the fascist organization that collaborated with the Nazis and ruled over the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state established by Nazi German in occupied Yugoslavia in 1941. For Croatia’s Jews, “For Homeland Ready” is not a collection of three words—it is a hate slogan that is being heard more and more as neofascism spreads in Croatia. And Jasenovac is no ordinary Croatian place—it is the site of a former death camp where up to 99,000 Jews, Serbs, Roma and other non-Catholic minorities were killed by the Ustaša during World War II.

Not only did the phrase make it on to the controversial plaque at Jasenovac, but Croatia’s former president, Stjepan Mesic, was caught on video questioning the death toll at the camp. He has since apologized, but many Croatians refuse to believe that Croatians collaborated with the Nazis and killed thousands of Jews. They insist Communists did so instead.

"Srbosjek" (Serbcutter), a specially designed knife for quick
cutting throats of lined Serbs. It was used by Croat Ustasha
for speedy killing in Jasenovac death camp in Croatia.

Croatian leaders have a checkered history of Holocaust denial. Though some previous presidents, including Mesic, have apologized to Jew’s for the country’s role in the Holocaust, others—like Franjo Tuđman, who was the first president of Croatia after it gained independence from Yugoslavia, did anything but. A year before taking office, Tuđman published a book called Bespuća povijesne zbiljnosti (literally translated as Wastelands of Historical Reality), which denied that the Holocaust ever happened. He eventually apologized for the book, but Croatia’s tradition of Holocaust denial continues.

While Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the country’s fourth president, has issued a statement that declared the Ustaša a criminal regime, she was photographed holding the regime’s flag in November. Others, like judges and school officials, have worked to suppress the history of the Holocaust in Croatia. For the country’s growing right wing, revisionism is a chance to find strong heroes and a triumphant past for a nation that has often been buffeted by war, geopolitics and social upheaval, but it also white washes history.

Jasenovac - Serb victims abused for the
camera. Croatian Ustasha, on the right is
posing with the knife under Serb prisoner
throat.  The guy on the left is a Muslim in
Ustasha forces, wearing fez, and aiming
the knife toward Serb's thorat.
The knifes are retaken by EU, now.

Nothing can undo what Croatia’s Jews suffered during the Holocaust. More than 30,000 Jews are thought to have been murdered, in addition to "virtually the entire Roma (Gypsy) population of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina," the USHMM writes. Though Nazis killed many, the majority were slaughtered by Croatian collaborators. A mere 5,000 Jews survived World War II, and today an estimated 2,000 remain in Croatia.

It remains to be seen whether Croatian Jews will boycott next year’s commemorations—or whether the continued rise of the Croatian right wing will make another statement necessary. Either way, Croatian history will remain a battleground for whose whose lives and families were decimated by the Holocaust, and those who find it politically expedient to ignore them.
The article was originally published on January 27, 2017.

[The author "forgot" Serbs completely, but its trendy in the West, anyway]

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