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The Ustaše (pronounced), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, [n 3] was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization [21] active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret).
Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara" (transl. Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška) is a Croatian song promoting the Ustaše massacres in World War II. [1] [2] The lyrics celebrate the World War II holocaust and genocide of Serbs in Herzegovina. [3]
Luburić broke off and formed his own group, Otpor-HNO in 1955. This split was due to the fact that Pavelić was willing to give up some historically Croatian land in exchange to reestablish an independent Croatia. [15] The working relationship between the two men was a long-standing one, beginning in the 1930s with the Ustashe movement. [7]
Ante Pavelić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǎːnte pǎʋelit͡ɕ] ⓘ; 14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959) was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied ...
Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac of Zagreb meeting with the Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić in 1941 Catholic prelates led by Aloysius Stepinac at the funeral of Marko Došen, one of the senior Ustaše leaders, in September 1944 Serb civilians forced to convert to Catholicism by the Ustaše in Glina Execution of prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp, which was briefly run by a Franciscan ...
At the time, Croatia was often accused of ignoring the crimes committed by the World War II-era fascist Ustaša regime, and of tolerating the symbols and the activities of individuals sympathetic to that regime. This has led to criticism of Croatia, particularly among Serbs. This was exacerbated with war-time propaganda for the Yugoslav wars. [14]
The Croatian Liberation Movement (Croatian: Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret, HOP; Spanish: Movimiento de Liberación Croata) is a minor far-right political party founded in 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Ante Pavelić, poglavnik of the Independent State of Croatia and its ruling party Ustashe – Croatian Revolutionary Movement from 1941 to 1945, and some Croatian emigrants.
On 12 February 2018, when Serbian president Vučić was to meet with Croatian government representatives in Zagreb, hundreds of demonstrators chanted the salute Za dom spremni! at the city square. [134] Marko Perković and band Thompson created controversy by performing songs that openly glorifies the Ustasha regime and the Genocide of Serbs. [135]