Shalom Mr. Ben Pesach:
I believe when you are ushered through the pearly gates one of the first extolments G-d commends you for will be your heroic support of the mighty, wonderful Serbian people. Your comments on just the below paragraph (in italics) concerning the Nazi pig--Yemach Shemo Vezichro--Franjo Tudjman and the Nazism seething from his words would be appreciated:
Tudjman, a historian and “former army general,” has met accusations of being and incurred politically damaging criticism for statements made in 1971 “claiming that only sixty thousand people had been killed in NDH concentration camps” and also from a book he authored in 1989 that provides estimates of perished Jews and Serbs lower than commonly accepted.21. A related criticism of Tudjman stems from a racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Serb comment made while campaigning: “Thank G-d, my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.”22
A vicious underestimation:
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial, in only four years the Ustasha regime killed 32,000 Jews, 26,000 Romani, and between 330,000 and 390,000 Serbs.18
There were many examples in the 80s and 90s of Ustasha glorifications:
the ubiquitous display of red-and-white checkered armorial shield that had been an emblem of the medieval Croatian state but also of the murderous wartime Ustasha state (which the new leadership failed categorically and publicly to denounce)…It was evident in the rhetoric of the new Croatian constitution, which claimed ‘full state sovereignty’ as the ‘historical right of the Croatian nation’ and symbolically demoted Serbs from their previous status as co-‘owners’ of the Republic.20
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18. Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 2005 ed., s.v. "Croatia."
20. Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, 71.
21. Stokes, "From Nation to Minority: Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia at the Outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars," p. 11; Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 2005 ed., s.v. "Tudjman, Franjo"; Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 2005 ed., s.v. "Croatia, Independent State of."
22. Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 2005 ed., s.v. "Tudjman, Franjo."