A singer whose performances are regularly accompanied by shouts celebrating the Ustaste in Vukovar organizes a concert, which he claims is of a humanitarian nature. Accommodation in the town on Vuka is almost impossible to find, so Thompson's fans are recommended to spend the night - in Serbia
The MP of the chauvinist Homeland Movement celebrated the Ustasha leader, Nazi collaborator and war criminal Anta Pavelić with a song
The recent success of Croatian handball players served the ruling HDZ as a backdrop for a political showdown with dissidents, primarily with the mayor of Zagreb, Tomislav Tomašević. At first glance, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković won, but a second look shows a different picture. For now, the only thing that is certain is that the loser of Plenković's political maneuvers is Croatian democracy
From the progressive stand at Konjarnik they rocked Nail heads, Thomson's first and biggest hit that begins with the Ustasha salute "Za dom spremni". Chauvinists impress each other
"We are brothers by birth. We came from the same country, and we behave similarly," says the president of the Center for Regionalism, Aleksandar Popov
The process of relativizing the past and the Ustasha symbol in Croatia has been going on for a long time, and the institutions are not able, and I wonder if they are willing, to guarantee a space of freedom, freedom of expression, says Vesna Teršelić, head of Dokumenta - a center for dealing with the past
"Marko Perković Thompson is not worried, but the transformation of HDZ and the Government under HDZ", said Croatian MEP Tonino Picula
Thompson has not changed so much as Croatian society has changed, as hard nationalism has been normalized, says journalist Ladislav Tomičić for "Vreme". The writer Ivica Đikić states for our paper that Plenković has been talking about Europeanism for years, "and then he appears as a political sponsor of a concert where the slogan 'Za dom spremni' is shouted". The President of the SDSS Milorad Pupovac concludes that it is "a glorification of the Ustasha, an act of renewing the Ustasha spirit"
At Marko Perkovic Thompson's concert, half a million people are expected to "glorify the Ustaste". And those who did not manage to get a ticket, can go to a special evening mass in the church of St. Joseph in Split and pray "that this historic event will be for the glory of God and for the unity and harmony of the Croatian people."
