nice article on Rome and Croatia during WWII
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=169378
Even within Balkans politics, I've always found Yugoslavia's to be the most complex and shaded. The machinations that went on before, during, and soon after WWII are fascinating, (and quite brutal). I'm not sure there's a single definitive history, and I'm not sure there can even be one. A lot of what went on was quite secret/sordid. Many deals, both tactical and strategic, were made, and the details and knowledge of them died with the partipants, (and I don't just mean between the Yugoslavs themselves, but also the Axis and Allies).
Even within Balkans politics, I've always found Yugoslavia's to be the most complex and shaded. The machinations that went on before, during, and soon after WWII are fascinating, (and quite brutal). I'm not sure there's a single definitive history, and I'm not sure there can even be one. A lot of what went on was quite secret/sordid. Many deals, both tactical and strategic, were made, and the details and knowledge of them died with the partipants, (and I don't just mean between the Yugoslavs themselves, but also the Axis and Allies).
posted by mendip at
11:42 AM
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This article is complete bunk and there are many reasons why. It would be too long a response to write out so I'll just make my points numerically.
1 The Catholic Church didn't support the Ustasa, it supported an independent Croatia - big difference.
2 That's the same thing the priests wanted.
3 Pavelic was nothing more than a Nazi puppet, he was not popular nor elected.
4 The Catholic Church, like many Germans, were duped and didn't know the full extent of what happened until after the war.
5 The Vatican archives are open to view Pope Pius's records.
6 Jasenovac is not 'rarely spoken of', it is quite well known in the region.
7 Is was not just fascists fleeing to Bleiburg. It was Chetniks (Ustasa's blood enemy) and other non-communists who wanted nothing to do with the new regime.
8 There is no pro-Nazi symbolism or fascism rehabilitated in Croatia today. Those are pure lies.
9 Marko Perkovic of Thompson has repeatedly said he is not an Ustasa or a fascist.
10 The 'Krajina' Serbs were moved on Belgrade's orders and resettled in Vojvodina and Kosovo for obvious reasons.
11 Serbs used WWII as an excuse for the atrocities committed in Croatia recently on people who weren't even born when WWII occurred.
In conclusion, this article is not "nice", it is full of inaccuracies, half-truths and lies.
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Anonymous, at 12:58 PM
Well, thanks for the usual Papist propaganda, Anonymous. Proving my point, the politics of the region was and is quite convoluted and fasinating.
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mendip, at 7:57 AM
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