[quote]brunoG wrote:
What did you expect when you stated a tread -You?re Croatian when?- ?
If you had one with You?re French when? I could have wrote ? you start waving a white flag out of habit etc ?you can write a post like that and ?offend- any nation/nationality but I see I have struck a big nerve here.
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Hmm… How come when posters from Germany post you don’t respond with “you killed millions of Jews” ?
NO ONE was discussing WW2 history here. YOU brought a completely unrelated issue into the thread implying that we’are all fascists.
I’m not arguing against it or denying anything. I’m just trying to point out that 60 years after the end of WW2 you are bringing this completely unrelated issue up just because the word Croatia appeared in the thread title.
If someone mentioned Belgian waffles, would you write about Congo?
Bullshit. Do you live here? I don’t think so. If you did, you wouldn’t write such crap. There are tens of thousands of Serbs here leading normal lives, including many of my relatives. You should get over your WW2 obsession.
Now this is plain ridiculous, especially the conversion idiocy.
Like the radical imams in the muslim world spread some hysterical stories about Koran burnings in Copenhagen these days, such outrageous claims about forced conversions were used to stir ethnic tension in the 90’s.
When the “Vatican conspiracy” theories start to float around, you’ve lost any credibility you maybe had.
Ah, we finally got to the point. Some people, 60 years after, still feel the urge to portray Croats as the “worst of the worst” in WW2, half-animals who managed to shock even the Germans with their cruelty. I would laugh, but I’ve seen it used to many times as propaganda during the previous decade.
I’m not denying the crimes of the Ustashe, but it is no coincidence that certain political elements used the exact same arguments you listed above to prove that Croats are “inherently genocidal” and “much worse that the Nazis”.
Pavelic and the NDH were a murderous regime installed by the Germans like other puppet regimes in occupied countries - Szalasy in Hungary for example.
However, claiming that the concentration camps in German hands were " much better" that the Croatian one is an insult to the victims of those camps.
Again with the Vatican conspiracy… Reminds me about Milosevic’s claims that pope John Paul II was an Ustasha.
And by the way, Stepinac saved Jews in WW2.
I’m really sad when someone who obtained a history degree uses it to spread some semi-hysterical unfounded beliefs gathered from obscure sources completely unfamiliar with the actual situation on the ground.
I have no desire to continue this discussion further.