Celebrate players, not politics: Croatian ambassador wants soccer clubs to kick out ideology
www.theage.com.au
The call comes after an investigation showed how some Australian-Croatian sporting clubs were displaying fascist symbols and commemorating anniversaries linked to the Nazi-backed Ustasha.
  • laki1986@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I can’t understand why a large part of the Croatian diaspora in Australia is still fond of the Ustaša regime. Imagine being a third or fourth generation Australian-Croatian, who grew up in a relatively tolerant country and yet you support a fascist ideology that killed hundreds of thousands of people because they had a different ethnicity or political opinion.
    I get that their relatives fled to Australia due to the fear of being persecuted by the KPJ because they were part of this ideology. However, this was almost 80 years ago for fucks sake. Because of idiots like them a lot of people have a negative sentiment towards normal Croatians from the diaspora.

    • Mulderre91@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Isn’t the same in Croatia as well? There are many references to Pavelic and, if I remember, players were punished for singing Ustashe’s songs after matches.