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A hugely popular right-wing Croatian singer and hundreds of thousands of his fans performed a pro-Nazi World War II salute at a massive concert in Zagreb, drawing criticism.

One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time.

Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

This shit really is just on the rise globally huh ? Time to bust out the Ole M1 Garand

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 hours ago

pro-Nazi salute?

You mean ehhhh

A Nazi salute?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

"what's the difference between a nazi sympathiser and a nazi?"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago

What do you have when a person sits down at a table with 3 nazis?

4 nazis.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

They're the same picture.jpg

[–] [email protected] 141 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

How is a "pro-Nazi salute" different from a "Nazi salute"?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago

One of them shows you that the media is complicit

[–] [email protected] 72 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I've always wondered what the difference is between a "nazi sympathizer" and a nazi

[–] [email protected] 38 points 13 hours ago

Maybe they're only a Nazi if they're a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they're only a sparkling fascist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Well Finland and some Ukrainians joined the Axis because Russia (USSR at the time) was their enemy

And

Thailand joined the axis to reclaim land from Britain and France

They weren’t Nazis but maybe they were sympathetic?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago

None .... it's always OK to punch a Nazi ... and its also OK to punch a Nazi sympathizer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

It´s because he makes a living with it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's an ustaše salute, they were buddies with Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I'd consider it a Nazi salute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

unless the ustashe independently invented it

They did, they weren't instructed by German nazis on what words to use. Not that it makes any difference, ustašas were just the local variant of fascists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I don't think it's right hand salute, if you mean the thing Musk did

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Thank you for asking the important question. I came here to up-vote your comment.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 12 hours ago

right wing

Nazi

You don't have to say it twice...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I know it's a popular saying, but idk if it cancels shit out.
Like, try taking about dead Nazis & how good they are - feels weird bcs of all the bad shit they did.

So no, perhaps just no good Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I think it implies two things.

  1. Nazi's are dead because they are relics of the past
  2. if a Nazi is alive today, they should be dead because they are a relic of the past
[–] [email protected] 47 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Napalm is a problem solver. Just sayin.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If your problem is “too many Vietnamese children aren’t on fire” then it’s a problem solver, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm for using it to help cleanse Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Nothing about napalm says it only needs to be used for that. What it has been used for before says nothing about someone's wishes for what it can be used for now. Your comment is dumb as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So this means their visas are being checked and converts are being cancelled... Right...? Riiiight???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

The current administration is very anti-antisemitism, I'm sure they'll get right on it.... Any minute now.....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Right wingers and Nazism is not too different from each other now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Real antiaemitism is not critisized by the.governments and pro israel people but condemn anti occupation people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia.

Ah the old reliable anti-communist gotta fascist rule.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

There was little to no actual anti-communism at play at that point (although it was still relevant symbolically). Both sides were already capitalist. Yugoslavia had been on the path of liberalisation for quite a while before the breakup.

Btw, that excuse that Thompson and his fans regularly use is bullshit, the phrase was picked by Croatian extremists (especially the paramilitary HOS) in the 90s because it was used by ustašas (fascists) half a century earlier in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

When scrolled past this post i assumed it was news about some gay party somewhere, then I noticed the women aren't dressed for that, than i noticed the headline was about something nazi happening at the party and only then i realised the gay part was only in my head because of the shirtless dude doing the nazi salute the headline is talking about. How is it possible all these right wing conservative people are so against anything gay but then decide to look like that and how are all of their likeminded people so ok with it? If i showed up to a pride somewhere they'd beat me up for it. So strange.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Hey, be wary of a ban in case you dehumanize Nazis in some Lemmy communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I’m not a fan of him at all, but I have to say that every information in this article is misleading. Of course that the small minority of retards did the salute, however, this for sure is not a representative of the whole event. Marko did not perform this salute. This is a lie. I hope they get criminally prosecuted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

By “criminally prosecuted” the poster refers to the fact that the nazi salute is illegal in Croatia — a fact mentioned in the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

the small minority of retards did the salute

The words "za dom spremni" are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.