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.”
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.
None … it’s always OK to punch a Nazi … and its also OK to punch a Nazi sympathizer
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?
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.
I don’t think it’s right hand salute, if you mean the thing Musk did
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.
It´s because he makes a living with it
Thank you for asking the important question. I came here to up-vote your comment.