the Correspondent of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” asked the Dean of the philosophical faculty of the University of East Sarajevo, Professor of Dredge Mastilovic tell us more about the crimes NGKH. The scientist explained that under the patronage of Hitler and as his most faithful allies the Croats ustasha made every effort to complete the project of Western ideologists of the nineteenth century: its purpose was to prevent the penetration of Russian Orthodoxy, to the warm seas due to the destruction of almost two million Orthodox Serbs.
“the report of the national Commission of the Federal people’s Republic of Yugoslavia for establishing the crimes of occupiers and their collaborators (1945), among other things, States: “Achievement NGKH was that the story had a new concept of the ferocity and bloodshed. The whole history of mass criminal homicide – just a faded picture in the face of unprecedented terror in Croatia (NGKH). While for three centuries the Spanish Inquisition brought about 30 thousand victims, Independent state of Croatia, with a population of less than 6 million people, within a few months destroyed 500-700 thousand people.” These crimes have been left without even a word of German and Italian officers. So, Hitler’s representative in NGKH General Edmund Glaise von Horstenau the actions of the ustasha was called “the frenzy of inhuman sadists” – said the Professor.
it is Worth noting that the composition of the puppet Independent state of Croatia (1941-1945) was part of the modern Republic of Croatia without Istria and much of Dalmatia and the whole of modern Bosnia and Herzegovina, some areas of Slovenia and syrmia. Ustashskaya concentration camp Jasenovac became a symbol of crimes NGKH and was third in the number of victims in Europe after Auschwitz and Treblinka. Their main enemies are ustashe declared Orthodox Serbs. NGKH leader Ante Pavelic and the Minister of education, writer Mile Budak wanted to solve the Serbian question radically: the third – to destroy a third force to make Catholic, one – third deported to Serbia. The slogan coined by Budak, said: “Serbs on willows”. The results of the genocide committed with unconditional support of the Catholic clergy, were devastating: destroyed 299 Orthodox churches, some 240,000 Serbs and forcibly converted to the Roman Catholic faith, and about 750 000 Serbs were killed.
Mastilovic drew attention to the fact that “due reverence to these and all other victims of Nazism and fascism it is impossible to prevent attempts of revision of history, distortion of historical facts, substitution of theses relativize the crimes of the Nazis and their loyal allies.” “At the same time special care should be stopped attempts at historical falsification aimed at announcement of the victims of Nazism and Nazis and fascists and the Nazis, fascists and their faithful allies – fascist” – he stressed.
meanwhile, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the great Victory over fascism, the Croatian President Zoran Milanovic spoke out against manifestations of neo-Nazism and attempts at rehabilitation in the country of the ustashe, whose ideas, unfortunately, still find a significant number of followers.
So, on may 1, the Croatian leader, demonstratively left the event in the village of Stara gradiska. There was a tribute to the fallen Croatian soldiers during the operation “Lightning” in Western Slavonia (may 1-3, 1995), in which, among other things, from the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) was forcibly expelled more than 5 thousand Serbs, 283 killed or were missing, among whom 57 women and nine children. However, Milanovich distanced itself from this action not because of its controversial nature, and in connection with the presence of ustashskaya symbols at present individuals, in particular, display of the slogan of the supporters NGKH: “For the Homeland – ready!”. After that, the Croatian President said that a sign saying “For the Homeland – ready!”, mounted in the center of the memorial complex Jasenovac, constitutes a desecration of the victims of Nazism and sadism, and it must be removed.
“it’s Time to stop pretending. This needs to be stopped. I can’t and don’t want to support repression, although I believe it should be banned by law”, – said Zoran Milanovic in an interview with RTL, commenting on the actions of the followers of the ustashe in Croatia.
