"Genocidal Ustasha regime still glorified in Croatia"

"Two noteworthy events took place in Croatia during the past month that reflect in a very significant way on the phenomenon of Holocaust distortion, which is so rampant in post-Communist Eastern Europe," Zuroff writes, in an article entitled, "Failure to sincerely and honestly confront Ustasha crimes," and adds:

"One of the events was attended by at least 200,000 people and viewed all over the world by millions of others on television and the internet, while the other was attended by a small select group of prominent guests, was closed to the public and was hardly mentioned in the media."

Zuroff explains that the first was the public reception for the Croatia national football team held on July 16 "upon its triumphant return to Zagreb following its surprising second-place finish in the recent World Cup competition held in Russia," while the other was Israeli President Reuven Rivlin's visit to the site of Croatia's WW2 death camp for Serbs, Jews, and Roma in Jasenovac.

Both, however, are important, if we seek to understand the threat posed by the attempts to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust in the region, and why the efforts to combat this plague have hitherto not been particularly successful, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in his article, cited by Tanjug, and Croatia-based website Index.

"Hoping to avoid any controversy, the organizers of the reception announced beforehand that no politicians or performers would appear, but that is not what happened. Marko Perkovic, probably the most popular singer in Croatia, and better known by his nickname of 'Thompson' (for the British machine gun he carried as a Croatian soldier in the wars of the nineties), went to Zagreb Airport to greet the...