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Oct 22, 2026
ToniGUEST
So it's basically an invention of the former regime that tried to invent this new symbol.
ToniGUEST
There's the Ustasha symbol with the cross to kind of connect it to the church.
ToniGUEST
So it got used so much that the kids think that this is the original symbol.
ToniGUEST
In the original, those guys hated the church because they were pure nationalists and the symbol instead of a cross was a revolutionary bomb inside.
ToniGUEST
They were like Croatian national revolutionaries.
ToniGUEST
Okay, so you have this long history of, you know, conflating the two and portraying the conflict as the Ustasha is against us.
ToniGUEST
If it's not our secular anti-Catholic crap, then you are Ustasha.
ToniGUEST
That's the play, that's the spiel in
Matthew BannisterHOST
The BBC special correspondent, Allan Little, reported from Bosnia throughout the war and interviewed Biljana Plavšić on many occasions.
Allan LittleCORRESPONDENT
Well, she was born in 1930, so she would've been 11 when Bosnia-Herzegovina was invaded and occupied, and there was a campaign of, uh, mass murder against Serbian people during the Nazi occupation, uh, with the c- active collaboration of the far-right Ustaše Croatian nationalist forces.
Allan LittleCORRESPONDENT
And so for her generation, that was a defining experience, and it's said that she lost members of her family then.
Allan LittleCORRESPONDENT
And the, the, the political uses and the military uses to which that folk memory was put in the 1990s were a very powerful motivating force in the campaigns of violence and vengeance that, uh, so disfigured that country in the 1990s.
Stephen FlurryHOST
This is when Mr.
Stephen FlurryHOST
Flurry said, "Well, this is the start of World War III." When you see what Germany's doing in the Balkans and what Germany got NATO, the United States to do in breaking up Yugoslavia and siding with, with Croatia, who had the, the, uh, what is it, Ustashe, worse than the Nazis, and basically America was running the campaign for them.
Stephen FlurryHOST
You can read that, those details in, in Mr. Flurry's booklet, Germany's Conquest of the Balkans.
Stephen FlurryHOST
But e- even the, the way they set this up, Germany has been systematically pursuing these things.
Dan FinnGUEST
First of all, they never would've been able to do that in the first place 'cause Serbian clubs were banned for European football for several years in the nineties.
Dan FinnGUEST
But if they had, I certainly don't think they would've been presented as the victims of anti-Serbian pogroms by Nazis and Ustaše in, uh, in Western Europe.
Dan FinnGUEST
Uh, but that was the, the response.
Dan FinnGUEST
And this was taken up by the international media, uh, presenting this false narrative of what had happened.
Owen JonesGUEST
The Serbs suffered genocide in World War II.
Owen JonesGUEST
They, they suffered at the hands of the Ustase, the Croatian Na- Nazi collaborators, who the Nazis thought were cut too extreme, 'cause they was just so, they just-
Freddie FelthamHOST
And a lot of them ended up in Australia.
Owen JonesGUEST
That's true.
Owen JonesGUEST
I see.
Owen JonesGUEST
Oh.
Freddie FelthamHOST
The Sta- the St- a lot of the post-Ustase ended-
Owen JonesGUEST
Oh, I see.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
Um, Chernozemski was an assassin for the International Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, which was a nationalist group that advocated for an independent Macedonia led by its ethnic Bulgarian majority, and he'd actually already carried out two hits on former members who tried to leave the organization.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
But he'd been hired by a Croat group called the Ustashe, like an extreme nationalist group, and you can see, you know, they all hate Alexander so much they're sort of buying hitmen from other ethnic groups within the region.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
They hired him to train their own assassins to kill Alexander.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
He brought three of them to France, but ultimately, in what I can imagine was a comedy montage of them like missing shots at bottles on a wall, decided that he was gonna do it himself.
Thomas777GUEST
He didn't even particularly de-emphasize it.
Thomas777GUEST
His background, he'd fought with the partisans against the Ustasha, which is interesting.
Thomas777GUEST
In part, motivated probably by the fact that his brother had been murdered by the Ustasha.
Thomas777GUEST
But he could not be called an anti-fascist.
Thomas777GUEST
And in the 30 years preceding homeland war he was periodically in prison for nationalistic activities um he wrote a history from the croatian perspective of world war ii um whereby uh he essentially said that the croatians of the people had to work within the communist paradigm in order to achieve self-determination and that was his motivation for joining the partisans.
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Thomas777GUEST
For a small country, it had a tremendously outsized impact.
Thomas777GUEST
It was incredibly committed to the Axis cause.
Thomas777GUEST
And a lot of people claim otherwise by conflating support for the Ustasha regime with support for the Axis cause and Adolf Hitler.
ThomasGUEST
He didn't even particularly de-emphasize it.
ThomasGUEST
His background, he'd fought with the partisans against the Ustasha, which is interesting.
ThomasGUEST
In part, motivated probably by the fact that his brother had been murdered by the Ustasha.
ThomasGUEST
But he could not be called an anti-fascist.
ThomasGUEST
And in the 30 years preceding homeland war he was periodically imprisoned for nationalistic activities um he wrote a history from the croatian perspective of world war ii um whereby uh he essentially said that the croatians of the people had to work within the communist paradigm in order to achieve self-determination and that was his motivation for joining the partisans.
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ThomasGUEST
It's like, yeah, they had Germany behind them.
ThomasGUEST
Like, yeah, like, American media basically cast them as, like, the good guys.
ThomasGUEST
But they also, if you go to, you know, like, Ed Vashem, like, they got a whole exhibit, like, permanent exhibit on, like, you know, the crimes of the Ustasha.
Ekrem HuskicGUEST
That's why there was such a meaning shifted towards small city in Yugoslavia.
Ekrem HuskicGUEST
Zrinjski on the other hand, as I said, participated in the age, Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, so the Ustaša-led wartime state, and that's the reason they were prohibited by the, the authorities after World War II.
Ekrem HuskicGUEST
Post World War II, you have Velez being the model club.
Ekrem HuskicGUEST
All of a sudden they established themself as that in Bosnia.
NinaHOST
The Nazi-aligned administration in neighboring Slovenia had pursued its local rebels more energetically and more effectively than had their Italian counterparts, and so many Slovenian partisans had slipped across the border to escape reprisals.
NinaHOST
Now they were joined by some thirteen thousand Serbian Chetniks, Croatian Ustasha, and Slovenian fascists fleeing the advancing Yugoslav army.
NinaHOST
The old part of Trieste is built on the slopes of a hill which rises up towards the Karst Plateau, about a thousand feet above sea level.
NinaHOST
The streets, built narrow and winding to break up the powerful, bitterly cold winds that whip down into the city from the plateau at speeds well over a hundred miles per hour, make a perfect nightmare for street fighting.
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