CROATIAN PRESIDENT GLORIFIES NAZIS
A speech made more than a decade ago by Stipe Mesic - now Croatia's president - in which he apparently glorified Croatia's World War II pro-Nazi state shocked many across the country on Sunday.
In an audio recording posted at the Index.Hr Web portal on Saturday, a voice that sounds like Mesic's said Croats won twice during the war - when they established the pro-Nazi puppet state in 1941, and when their antifascists crushed the Nazis in 1945.
The portal said Mesic made the speech in the early 1990s, when he was still a member of the late President Franjo Tudjman's nationalist party, which often sought to diminish Croats' World War II crimes.
Mesic's office refused to comment on the recording, but insisted that Mesic's condemnation of the World War II regime is widely known. Although it did not directly confirm that the recording was of Mesic, it said the sentence was "taken out of context."
Mesic has been the most vocal critic among Croatian leaders of Croatia's wartime state, which persecuted hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and antifascist Croats.
He went to Israel on one of his first trips after becoming the president in 2000 to apologize to Jews for the crimes committed against them in Croatia. He also regularly goes to Jasenovac - the site of Croatia's infamous World War II concentration camp - to commemorate the victims.
In Jasenovac last month, Mesic said the World War II regime was "a chronicle of mad, but organized, orgy of killings."
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Mesic, conveniently seems to say whatever it is he believes the world wishes at the time. He changes with the tides, what he has done to Croatia is a travesty and 100 times worse than the alleged crimes Gotovina and Norac and even Glavas have committed. Croatians fought for their independence and now we are walking into another “greater Serbia” by joining the EU. Shame on you Mesic, how do you sleep at night?
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