NATO bombed Yugoslavia 25 years ago

[Isserley]

The term Greater Serbia or Great Serbia (Serbian: Велика Србија, Velika Srbija) describes the Serbian nationalist and irredentist ideology of the creation of a Serb state which would incorporate all regions of traditional significance to Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group, including regions outside modern-day Serbia that are partly populated by Serbs. The initial movement's main ideology (Pan-Serbism) was to unite all Serbs (or all territory historically ruled, seen to be populated by, or perceived to be belonging to Serbs) into one state, claiming, depending on the version, different areas of many surrounding countries, regardless of non-Serb populations present.

Considering such dreams and pretensions, Serbia never wanted the collapse of Yugoslavia, nor its own, and especially other nations, independent countries.

When above dream dies off and they admit their crimes (they never did that) we will stop holding grudges. We have huge karma and history of hating each other and globalists are using it for their own purposes.

It's not so much that they are laid back & easy going. Slovenia had a much easier situation, Serbia had no big interests there, so there were fewer victims.

But I love all these people and I have friends among them - Serbs, Slovenes, Bosnians. Average people are not to blame for wrong policies and centuries of war and manipulation. I hope that the time will come when consciousness will overcome this centuries-old karma & hatred.

[Ravenlocke]

Max Blumenthal,
The largest concert in Croatian history turned into a gigantic Ustasha Nazi rally

A banner day in NATO history

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1942742424578592791

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Meanwhile in EU member-state #Croatia, almost 500k attend a concert by neo-Nazi singer Marko Perković Thompson known for his admiration for Ustaše. The dissolution of Yugoslavia paved the way for the resurgence of fascism in the Balkans.

https://x.com/brane_mija64426/status...50648810332325

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Nazi Salute at Croatia’s Biggest Concert

At a record-breaking concert in Zagreb, far-right singer Marko Perković “Thompson” led a crowd of nearly half a million in chanting the WWII-era Ustasha salute “For the homeland — Ready!” — once used by Croatia’s Nazi puppet regime.

Despite bans in parts of Europe, Perković remains hugely popular in Croatia.

https://x.com/clashreport/status/1941855625106890764

[Isserley]

More than 500,000 Croats gathered that day to celebrate their faith, homeland, and family together.

This is, of course, the concert by Marko Perković Thompson at the Zagreb Hipodrom. It is the second largest gathering of Croats in history. Only pope John Paul II gathered more Croats in one place in 1994. At that time, a million people attended the first official visit of a pope to Croatia at the same location.

The circumstances of this concert indicate that human logic remains helpless when faced with God's. All credit to Marko Perković Thompson, his musical career, and his past as a war veteran, but he is aware, just like his team, that such a large crowd was not gathered only by one man.

The authorities held back. And they hoped that the organizer would cave in, that the people would get scared and give up. That perhaps the concert would be spread over several days. The rulers know who they serve. In Brussels, they do not look favorably on love of God and patriotism.

It is crystal clear to the Croatian Prime Minister and his associates that their abortion policy, the Istanbul Convention and the related gender ideology that they introduced into Croatian legislation, as well as the migration policy of dissolving the Croatian national being, are contrary to everything that the majority of visitors to Thompson's concert support.

The growing mass that opposes their Brussels policies is not in their favor. However, the urge to remain in power has taken its toll. At one point, they broke down and decided to pretend that they had aligned themselves under the banner of the victors. When they were convinced that the organization was grinding all the pistons that were thrown at their feet, they decided that it was time for them to take some of the credit for an event that would, it was clear, exceed all expectations.

And indeed, the police, ambulance and all other services did their part flawlessly. But it couldn't have been otherwise.

There were incomparably fewer intoxicated individuals than before any concert I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot of them.

The organization was perfect. We entered the Hipodrom area without waiting. The endless row of people was moving all the time, airport-style traffic restrictions prevented the crowd from rushing in at once, and everything went smoothly.

As I walked through the crowd to get to the bar or the restroom, I watched the people. Most were young men and women with children, beautiful Croatian youth, but there were also many middle-aged people, families, and a few older people. Rosaries around their necks, patriotic and Christian motifs on their T-shirts. Croatian flags. Smiles and peace.

Not a single Ustasha cap or symbol anywhere.

I expected that, as they used to do at a Croatian national football team match, one of the instigators would take out some such symbol and have it filmed by journalists, so that all the portals would scream with news about the vampirized Ustasha from the concert. But that didn't happen.

And it's not like there weren't traps set. The van with Belgrade license plates parked in the immediate vicinity of the Hipodrome certainly falls into that category. But these efforts were in vain.

And, there is already a court ruling on the song and the greeting at the beginning of the song. The High Misdemeanor Court of the Republic of Croatia, at its session held on June 3, 2020, allowed the use of that exclamation in a song that was created during the Homeland War in early '90s Historical circumstances were such that they changed the context of that greeting. In addition, there is numerous material evidence that the greeting was used even before the establishment of the NDH.

The aforementioned country also used the kuna currency and the today's Croatian anthem Lijepa Naša.

The mortgage of guilt that the enemies of Croatian independence persistently impose on Croats has already taken on comical contours.

With their behavior, their response to this concert, and the values ​​they cherish, the young people proved that they are capable of defending what they have achieved. This concert showed that the message from the song “If You Don’t Know What Happened” fell on fertile ground. The young people were informed about “what happened” and will be ready to drive their part according to God’s plan. Croatian veterans can sleep peacefully.

The return home was again peaceful and dignified. Due to the spiritual background and importance of the moment, it seems that even those who had drunk a few too many sobered up. No screaming, shouting, shaking hands, or vomiting. Peace and dignity. We walked for an hour to our cars and set off home.

Although artificial intelligence calculated that 1.3 out of half a million people would die in three hours, that did not happen. No one died or was seriously injured. People arrived safely at their homes.

Patriotism is not a mere emotion or a political slogan. Patriotism is an expression of love for a specific people, their language, their sanctuaries, their wounds, their history and their future. Therefore, when we speak today about Croats, about the unity of our people and about loyalty to Christ, we are speaking about being rooted in Christian civilization.

[Isserley]

Magnificent drone show on this spectacular concert.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6CFRxOoRsW8

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=An7MAiDvs3Y

There was not a sign of nazi anything anywhere near there. We were badly wounded in the 90's and Thompson is a product of that wound - he was in the war and people love and admire him, but that is all. Nazi's hated Christians & Croatians and Thompson and people who love him are HARD CORE CHRISTIANS!

Ravenlocke, please, educate yourself better (choose better sources if you wan't to write about people from across the world)

[Ravenlocke]

Thank you Isserley for your detailed, caring description of what transpired at the Thompson concert in Zagreb and your pro-peaceful, Christian view of the concert videos.

I am sorry but your argument that all the concert attendees were non Nazi followers, well meaning, peaceful, Christians and all united against Nazism and all loving towards others, is unconvincing and lacks total credibility.

Sadly you cannot deny or wash off the Ustashi past, or that there is no Nazism anywhere.

Respectfully here are some points to consider, citing several news reports,

Thompson a Croatian born pro Nazi and pro Ustasha regime, was allowed to do his concert in Croatia even though,

“Thompson’s concerts have so far been banned in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia, countries that describe him as a promoter of neo-Nazism and Ustašism,.”

“Following the concert in Zagreb, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković defended the originally Ustaše salute “Za dom spremni” by stating that it is an “integral part of Thompson’s repertoire” and that “we all must be proud of the concert.””

The above quotes are from the article here,

https://serbiantimes.info/en/eu-reac...ions-possible/


From BalkanInsight,

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/07/07...ascist-chants/

Thompson Concert in Zagreb Sparks Jitters About Fascist Chants

Civil rights advocates have criticised the Croatian authorities for not taking action after slogans from the World War II-era fascist Ustasa movement were chanted at a concert by right-wing singer Marko Perkovic, alias Thompson, which attracted 504,000 people on Saturday night, according to official figures.

Croatian Ombudsperson Tena Simonovic Einwalter condemned the behaviour of some concert-goers, but also the organisers and the authorities for failing to publicly denounce the incidents.

“This indicates that, over the years, and even before this concert, a sufficiently clear message has not been sent that all expressions of hatred and glorification of the darkest periods of the past are unacceptable and illegal,” Simonovic Einwalter said.

She noted that “a large number of people” chanted the Ustasa salute “Za dom spremni” (“Ready for the homeland”) at the concert.

In a call-and-response at the beginning of his song “Bojna Cavoglave” (“Cavoglave Battalion”), Thompson shouted “Za dom!” (“For the homeland!”) to which the audience loudly responded “Spremni!” (“Ready!”).

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO described the concert as “the most massive attack on the constitutional values of Croatia since the late 1990s and a direct attack on the fundamental values of the EU”.

Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said on Sunday that police would check individual cases of singing inappropriate songs and displaying Ustasa iconography at the concert, but added that he did not believe that half a million attendees could be labelled extremists.

However, former Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor accused the authorities and media of indulging the right-wing singer.

“Not only are the state and the city serving one man but the television stations are as well,” Kosor wrote on X.

“There’s palpable excitement while in the centre of Zagreb, fans are already singing songs from the time of the criminal state. The media are not reporting on this,” she added.

The performance passed off without a hitch despite the huge number of attendees, which made it the largest concert ever held in the country.


And according article from The Forward,

“ Croatian authorities said they could prosecute some in attendance for their displays. A Croatian handball star was dropped from his team after attending the concert, the Croatian state television station HRT reported.

The concert drew criticism from some Croatian officials, including former Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, who accused the authorities and media of indulging the right-wing singer.

“Not only are the state and the city serving one man but the television stations are as well,” Kosor wrote on X. “There’s palpable excitement while in the centre of Zagreb, fans are already singing songs from the time of the criminal state. The media are not reporting on this.”

Croatian Ombudsperson Tena Simonovic Einwalter also condemned authorities for failing to publicly denounce the incidents, according to Balkan Insight.”

Article here,

https://forward.com/fast-forward/753...sands-of-fans/


From AP news,

https://apnews.com/article/croatia-c...c7569615a7c9ae

Croatian right-wing singer Marko Perkovic and fans perform pro-Nazi salute at massive concert

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — 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 Staurday 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.”

The 1990s conflict erupted when rebel minority Serbs, backed by neighboring Serbia, took up guns, intending to split from Croatia and unite with Serbia.

Perkovic’s immense popularity in Croatia reflects prevailing nationalist sentiments in the country 30 years after the war ended.

The WWII Ustasha troops in Croatia brutally killed tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and antifascist Croats in a string of concentration camps in the country. Despite documented atrocities, some nationalists still view the Ustasha regime leaders as founders of the independent Croatian state.

Organizers said that half a million people attended Perkovic’s concert in the Croatian capital. Video footage aired by Croatian media showed many fans displaying pro-Nazi salutes earlier in the day.

The salute is punishable by law in Croatia, but courts have ruled Perkovic can use it as part of his song, the Croatian state television HRT said.

Perkovic has been banned from performing in some European cities over frequent pro-Nazi references and displays at his gigs.

Croatia’s Vecernji List daily wrote that the concert’s “supreme organization” has been overshadowed by the use of the salute of a regime that signed off on “mass executions of people.”

Regional N1 television noted that whatever the modern interpretations of the salute may be its roots are “undoubtedly” in the Ustasha regime era.

N1 said that while “Germans have made a clear cut” from anything Nazi-related “to prevent crooked interpretations and the return to a dark past ... Croatia is nowhere near that in 2025.”

In neighboring Serbia, populist President Aleksandar Vucic criticized Perkovic’s concerts as a display “of support for pro-Nazi values.” Former Serbian liberal leader Boris Tadic said it was a “great shame for Croatia” and “the European Union” because the concert “glorifies the killing of members of one nation, in this case Serbian.”

Croatia joined the EU in 2013.

Croatian police said Perkovic’s concert was the biggest ever in the country and an unseen security challenge, deploying thousands of officers.

No major incidents were reported.


I do not consider Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone as an unreliable source.

I do agree with you that the concert was peaceful but not on what took place during the concert or that all the concert crowd were non neo-Nazi, Ustasha admirers.

And I would also like to point out the comments made by this diplomat, Damir Arnaut on X in regards to the concert.

Damir Arnaut is the Bosnia and Herzegovina ambassador to Germany, and a human rights advocate.

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Last night in Zagreb, some 500.000 people attended a concert by Thompson, a Nazi-and their Ustasha allies-glorifying Croatian singer. Many high-ranking Croatian politicians, including the Parliament Speaker, showed up. 🧵

https://x.com/MpDamir/status/1941876736796303715

A number of Thompson’s songs contain irredentist themes directed against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of BiH. This alone warranted a BiH MoFA protest note. Even worse, his songs are not only apologist vehicles for Nazi and Ustasha criminals, but openly extol them. 🧵
Lyrics of one last night: “1945 was a bad year, it scattered us across the world. But a new lineage is growing now, swallows have returned home, with blue blood and white faces new children are being born”. It doesn’t get much more fascist than that.

https://x.com/MpDamir/status/1941876742806753550

At least not at a concert attended by so many in an EU country. Until, that is, he started his other song with the “Za dom spremni” rallying cry. It is literally the Ustasha equivalent of “Sieg Heil”. And half a million people joined in unison. 🧵

With such hate becoming not only accepted, but openly celebrated by hundreds of thousands of people, it becomes ever more imperative to speak up. To remind that 1945 witnessed the liberation of Auschwitz, as well as Jasenovac, the dismantling of the most evil regime in history,🧵

https://x.com/MpDamir/status/1941876748754227356

including its puppet Ustasha statelet, and the liberation of the entire world of that malignant ideology. My grandfather took active part in the liberation of Sarajevo that year. As did my grandmother, who continued hunting down remnants of Chetnik & Ustasha collaborators 🧵

hiding in the BiH hills well into the summer. Those who slaughtered thousands, along with their cohorts who then “scattered across the world” and whom Thompson and half a million supporters so shamelessly exalted last night. 🧵

https://x.com/MpDamir/status/1941876753607143468

Recently, I screened “Blum” to fellow Ambassadors and other officials in Berlin. It is a film about the Holocaust survivor Emerik Blum, who went on to become one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s most successful managers and politicians. 🧵

The most memorable part is when he describes witnessing an Ustasha commander crushing a child’s head against a wall in Jasenovac. The memory of that child and millions of others was attacked in Zagreb, and the future that Blum and others fought for became all the more uncertain.

https://x.com/MpDamir/status/1941876759130939399

And lastly is this true?,

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During tonight’s huge concert in Zagreb, fascist crooner Thompson wore a shirt honoring terrorist Zvonko Bušić, the chief architect of the hijacking of TWA 355 in 1976, which resulted in the death of NYPD officer Brian Murray. And this is who
@AndrejPlenkovic
pals around with.

https://x.com/JasminMuj/status/1941601573081059459

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Shameful misuse of Catholic symbols by Thompson. The ultranationalist singer is accused of praising the pro Nazi Ustasha regime by Ante Pavelic.
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Catholic Arena
@CatholicArena
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The LARGEST ticketed concert in HISTORY took place tonight in Zagreb, Croatia

500,000 people listened to the music of Marko Perkovic Thompson, who sings songs about faith and patriotism and who lit up the night sky with

https://x.com/ElisabettaBurba/status...58664374657533

[Isserley]

As far as I can see in this case, you have no problem quoting European and Serbian mainstream media, and of course, hypocritical politicians like Damir Arnaut.

The position of a diplomat, even though it was expressed on social networks, reflects the position of the country he comes from, so one could understand another extremely propagandistic, manipulative, and essentially shameful work of the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Germany, Damir Arnaut.

And it is not the first time that this man has disgraced BiH, its diplomacy and behaved exclusively as an ambassador of unitary, Bosniak politics. His social media posts about the concert of Croatian singer Marko Perković Thompson are actually proof that diplomats can publicly promote propaganda, often hatred. And while his speech in one part of the Sarajevo audience, similar to that of the rather nervous Serbian politician Nebojša Vukanović, known for his primitive speeches, has aroused support. The question arises, how a diplomat can speak out in such a false and manipulative manner without any consequences?
Not only does Arnaut deny the Croats, their role in the defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but he also tries to lump everyone into the same criminal basket, which is only a vile para-intelligence tactic that Sarajevo’s unitarian politics has been using for more than three decades to cover up their own sins from the war and emphasize others.

In all these accusations against the concert, there is a lot of misunderstanding of Croatian history and people wounded by the war of 30 years ago. The wounds are still there. Croats are still searching for their relatives & friends from the war.. they still have no clue into which pit were they thrown (killed by Serbs) and we still come across mass graves of murdered Croats from that time. But also from the time of World War II and after it, when communists in Yugoslavia killed tens of thousands of people (soldiers and their families and children on the Ustasha side, and also Catholic priests) without trial and without mercy for the innocent among them, for those who had nothing to do with the Ustasha crimes. That is the history one large part of Croatian society remembers and has an irreparable trauma because of it.


These brutal accusations come as a rule from the left, mainly from the communist milieu and origin. Also from those who do not understand the history of Croatia enough.

I could list many more good reviews and comments and praise for this concert from people and media who understand and who carry patriotism within them and do not prioritize one salute at the beginning of one song out of a total of 30 songs that Thompson sang at this concert.

Even though that one greeting/salute -> Za Dom Spremni, that is so controversial, originates from the period before the Ustasha and essentially means "For homeland ready" (ready to defend the homeland) and was used in all wars of defense of Croatia - pure patriotism and so the court ruled that it CAN BE USED because in that context it has absolutely nothing to do with nazi party..


And this Croatian handball player that you have mentioned, who got fired from the club because he was at this concert, you seem to have intentionally forgotten to write that it was a Serbian handball club called Vojvodina

Ravenlocke - similar to what you are writing would be to accuse all of Russian patriotic, right oriented people of the crimes of Stalin and his policies.. does that make any sense? Or accuse German patriots of nazism. Unfortunately, such things happen too often.

Yes, the Ustasha movement was bad and shameful period for Croatia and believe me, that movement is dead in Croatia - Well, I guess I know that since I've lived here for 40 years. What unfortunately prevails in Croatia, as in most European countries, is the Brussels leftist-satanic-globalist politics. This concert is a resistance to that.
Now our enemies are in Brussels and all other high places and organizations which are mostly left oriented and are attacking human essence.

Most people know it, including MP Thompson and his supporters so I would suggest that we stop beating that old drum of Ustaštvo and Nazism because it's becoming tiring and tragicomic -> who wore what shirt and from what perspective was the photo taken in which maybe raising their hands at a concert (oh my god, who raises their hands at concerts - what fools) from which angle possible looks like a Nazi salute

[Isserley]

This all is very similar to accusations which band Lynyrd Skynyrd has faced. Accusations and controversy regarding their association with symbols and themes tied to racism, but the band has not been directly accused of promoting the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) or producing a KKK anthem. However, the band's use of the Confederate flag and their song "Sweet Home Alabama" have been interpreted by some as defending the South's history of racism and segregation, which includes the KKK's activities in the region.
The band's decision to prominently feature the Confederate flag in their concerts and merchandise has been central to the controversy. Although the flag was often presented by the band as a symbol of Southern pride and rebellion, critics argue that it carries strong associations with racism and the legacy of the Civil War. The band's fans and some members defended the flag as part of Southern heritage, but this stance has been criticized as ignoring its connection to slavery and white supremacy.

WHITE SUPREMACY being the key phrase here.

It is important to emphasize that people who rebel against right-wing performers who promote patriotism and religion - openly support obscure performances and drag shows, for example at the openings of the Olympic Games and the Eurovision Song Contest.
What happend on the Olimpic game opening was a shameful misuse of Catholic symbols, certainly not what Thompson did. But if you ask me, yes it was a bit too much, but at least - it was with respect.

[Rawhide68]

I think you lost us at our thread.