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back to the 1940's, but without the partisans     For years now, when visiting Croatia, I experience an uneasy feeling of the revival of nazism (or fascism, if there is a difference which matters). First, I’ve noticed the trend on a local level, city of Bol  [090628], but currently it is a kind of "popular" movement across the country. To think of it, it’s not unexpected: Croatian puppet state NDH (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska), 1941-1945, was a fascist state and its fascism was not imposed by Germany and/or Italy, it was of Croatian roots, it just "blossomed" under the protection of those two countries.

And thinking of it, I recall what Noam Chomsky, interviewed by David Barsamian, said in1992, the year of intensified Serbs-Croats conflict, on the subject of bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia. (The interview was published in 1993 under the title The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many.)

from The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many

by Noam Chomsky (1993)

Q: Would you comment on the events in the former Yugoslavia, which constitute the greatest outburst of violence in Europe in fifty years.

A: In a certain sense, what’s happening is that the British and American right wings are getting what they asked for. Since the 1940's they’ve been quite bitter about the fact that Western support turned to Tito and the partisans, and against Mikailhovich and his Chetniks, and the Croatian anti-Communists, including the Ustasha, who were outright Nazis. The Chetniks were also playing with the Nazis and were trying to overcome the partisans.

The partisan victory imposed a communist dictatorship, but it also federated the country. It suppressed the ethnic violence that had accompanied the hatreds and created the basis of some sort of functioning society in which the parts had their role. We’re now essentially back to the 1940's, but without the partisans.

Serbia is the inheritor of the Chetnics and their ideology. Croatia is the inheritor of the Ustasha and its ideology (less ferocious than the Nazi original, but similar). It’s possible that they’re now carrying out pretty much what they would’ve done if the partisans hadn’t won.

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