Tag: Ustasha
That small group of migrants deliberately chose to start their club on April 10. In 1953, that was the 12th anniversary of the creation of a Nazi-backed puppet state in Croatia. That state, ruled by a movement called the Ustasha, on conservative estimates killed 500,000 Serbs, Jews and Romani people during the war.
Source: How Croatian fascism symbols and rituals are lingering in Australia
Thousands of people have gathered in southern Austria to commemorate Croatian fascists and civilians who were killed at the tail end of World War II.
Held annually for more than three decades, Saturday’s event in Bleiburg was marked to mourn the killing of civilians and members of the Croatian Ustasa, a fascist group that controlled the Nazi-aligned Independent Croatian State (NDH), and others in May 1945 by Yugoslav Partisans.
Estimates of the total number of people killed vary widely, with some reaching the tens of thousands.
via Thousands attend far-right commemoration in southern Austria | Austria News | Al Jazeera
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