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.”
What if it’s just an ancient Roman salute from the heart to the sun?
This shit really is just on the rise globally huh ? Time to bust out the Ole M1 Garand
pro-Nazi salute?
You mean ehhhh
A Nazi salute?
“what’s the difference between a nazi sympathiser and a nazi?”
What do you have when a person sits down at a table with 3 nazis?
4 nazis.
They’re the same picture.jpg
How is a “pro-Nazi salute” different from a “Nazi salute”?
One of them shows you that the media is complicit
I’ve always wondered what the difference is between a “nazi sympathizer” and a nazi
Maybe they’re only a Nazi if they’re a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they’re only a sparkling fascist.
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?
None … it’s always OK to punch a Nazi … and its also OK to punch a Nazi sympathizer
Nothing at all.
It’s an ustaše salute, they were buddies with Nazis.
Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I’d consider it a Nazi salute.
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.
I don’t think it’s right hand salute, if you mean the thing Musk did
It´s because he makes a living with it
Thank you for asking the important question. I came here to up-vote your comment.
right wing
Nazi
You don’t have to say it twice…
fucking Nazis.
edit: whoever downvoted this sentiment, fuck you too, Nazi sympathizing scum.
(in a fight, right?)
the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
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.
I think it implies two things.
- Nazi’s are dead because they are relics of the past
- if a Nazi is alive today, they should be dead because they are a relic of the past
Dumbasses.
Napalm is a problem solver. Just sayin.
If your problem is “too many Vietnamese children aren’t on fire” then it’s a problem solver, yeah.
I’m for using it to help cleanse Nazi.
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.
So this means their visas are being checked and converts are being cancelled… Right…? Riiiight???
The current administration is very anti-antisemitism, I’m sure they’ll get right on it… Any minute now…
Right wingers and Nazism is not too different from each other now.
Never was
Real antiaemitism is not critisized by the.governments and pro israel people but condemn anti occupation people
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.
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.
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.
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 retards 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.
By “criminally prosecuted” the poster refers to the fact that the nazi salute is illegal in Croatia — a fact mentioned in the article.
the small minority of retards did the salute
The words “za dom spremni” are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.
