The call comes after an investigation showed how some Australian-Croatian sporting clubs were displaying fascist symbols and commemorating anniversaries linked to the Nazi-backed Ustasha.
I can’t understand why a large part of the Croatian diaspora in Australia is still fond of the Ustaša regime. Imagine being a third or fourth generation Australian-Croatian, who grew up in a relatively tolerant country and yet you support a fascist ideology that killed hundreds of thousands of people because they had a different ethnicity or political opinion.
I get that their relatives fled to Australia due to the fear of being persecuted by the KPJ because they were part of this ideology. However, this was almost 80 years ago for fucks sake. Because of idiots like them a lot of people have a negative sentiment towards normal Croatians from the diaspora.
Isn’t the same in Croatia as well? There are many references to Pavelic and, if I remember, players were punished for singing Ustashe’s songs after matches.
It is a problem to some degree but nothing like with the diaspora in Australia where this ideology seems to be widespread. For instance, you wont find this level of Ustaša support in the Croatian diaspora in Austria or Germany which is also quite large.
I can’t understand why a large part of the Croatian diaspora in Australia is still fond of the Ustaša regime. Imagine being a third or fourth generation Australian-Croatian, who grew up in a relatively tolerant country and yet you support a fascist ideology that killed hundreds of thousands of people because they had a different ethnicity or political opinion.
I get that their relatives fled to Australia due to the fear of being persecuted by the KPJ because they were part of this ideology. However, this was almost 80 years ago for fucks sake. Because of idiots like them a lot of people have a negative sentiment towards normal Croatians from the diaspora.
Isn’t the same in Croatia as well? There are many references to Pavelic and, if I remember, players were punished for singing Ustashe’s songs after matches.
It is a problem to some degree but nothing like with the diaspora in Australia where this ideology seems to be widespread. For instance, you wont find this level of Ustaša support in the Croatian diaspora in Austria or Germany which is also quite large.