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2016-09-14 Europe

Croatia’s election is a warning about the return of nationalism to the Balkans

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Posted by Steve White 2016-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Shortly following the incipient crack-up of Yugoslavia that followed the death of Tito, many of the most vicious members of the "Ustashi", a Croatian murderous fascist Movement outlawed after 1945, made their way from asylum in South America to the homeland. Those Ustashi, notorious in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil for their anti-Serb, anti-Semite and pro-fascist ideology blended quite well in post-Yugoslavia Croatia. And the remnants of the Ustashi remains entrenched to this date.

Posted by Shick de Medici6262 2016-09-14 08:00|| 2016-09-14 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Croatia is lovely.
Clean streets, nice people, hot women, and very little "enrichment".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-09-14 11:28|| 2016-09-14 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Croats were never too crazy about the Serbs. Or the Russians. Especially the Soviet Russians.

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-14 12:27|| 2016-09-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The Croats are Catholic. The Serbs and Russians are Orthodox. Old hatreds die hard.

Posted by Shick de Medici6262 2016-09-14 12:56|| 2016-09-14 12:56|| Front Page Top

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