The right -wing Croatian singer Marco Berkovic and the fans perform a supportive greeting in a huge party
Croatian singer is very common and hundreds of thousands of his fans performed a supportive greeting in World War II at a huge concert in Zagreb, which led to criticism.
One of the most popular songs of Marco Berkovic begins, which was played at a photo party on Saturday, with “the dreaded” homeland for the homeland – ready! ” A greeting, which is used by the Ostasha regime in the era of Croatia, which was running detention camps at the time.
Berkovic, whose theatrical name was Thompson after a US-made machine gun, had previously said that both the song and the greeting focused on the 1991-1995 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought with the US fire weapon, after the country announced independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “Watch an argument.”
The nineties’ struggle erupted when the rebel minority, backed by neighboring Serbia, seized weapons, which intend to separate from Croatia and monotheism with Serbia.
Berkovic’s tremendous popularity in Croatia reflects the dominant national feelings in the country 30 years after the war ended.
Wwii Ustasha forces in Croatia have killed tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Rome, and anti -fascist Croats in a series of detention camps in the country. Despite the documented atrocities, some nationalists still look at the leaders of the Ostasha regime as founders of the independent Croatian state.
The organizers said that half a million people attended the Berkovic party in the Croatian capital. Video footage broadcast by the Croatian media showed that many fans showed the pro -Nazi salute early today.
The Croatian government television HRT said that salutations are punishable by law in Croatia, but the courts ruled Birkovic that could be used as part of his song.
Berkovic has been prevented from performing in some European cities on references and repeated shows for Nazis in the vehicles.
The VECERNJI DAILY list in Croatia wrote that the “Supreme Organization” of the Music Party was overwhelmed by using a system of system of “mass executions of people”.
N1 regional television indicated that whatever the modern interpretations of the greeting, its roots are “undoubtedly” in the era of the Ustasha system.
N1 said that although “the Germans made a clear cut” from anything related to the Nazis “to prevent twisted interpretations and return to the dark past … Croatia is not anywhere near that in 2025.”
In neighboring Serbia, Popular President Alexander Fotic criticized Berkovic’s concerts as a “support for the values loyal to Nazism”. Former Serbian Liberal Leader Boris Tadic said he was a “great disgrace to Croatia” and “the European Union” because the ceremony “glorifies the killing of one nation, in this Serbian case.”
Croatia joined the European Union in 2013.
The Croatian police said that Berkovic’s party was the largest in the country and the challenge of an invisible wish, as thousands of officers deployed.
No major accidents were reported.