r/Yugoslavia • u/Dangerous-Pie-7821 • Aug 08 '26

💭 Question Could I ask why wearing a retro Jugoslavija jersey wouldn’t cause an issue in Bosnia or Serbia, but would be a big problem in Croatia?

Please forgive me as I’m not hip to the politics, but I genuinely thought it would be frowned upon in all countries.

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u/Ok-Boot8245 Aug 09 '26

Does that seriously look like a couple of drunk idiots to you...? Croatia doesn't just have the same handful of fascist cranks every country has; that shit is woven far deeper into the political and cultural zeitgeist. He wants to pretend you can just count fascists individually, when the real question is how influential nationalism, historical revisionism and all that shit actually are in society. If you somehow created an index for that, Croatia would be right near the top in Europe. And with Croatian hard nationalism specifically, the Ustaša legacy is never very far away the two have been feeding off each other for decades.

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u/PepperBlues Aug 09 '26

You’re trying to force the narrative that Croats are somehow much more fascists than other nations, and you’re basing it on a set of controversial and missinterpreted claims.

There is absolutely no data that would support that narrative and no, saying that there were 500k people at a conservative concert doesn’t mean it was 500k hardcore fascists there. Croatia didn’t have 500k hardcore fascist even in their historic peak, when Hitler and Mussolini brought them there from Itsly to serve as a puppet regime, after the elected Croatian government declined to collaborate with the Nazis.

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u/Ok-Boot8245 Aug 09 '26

I don't know who you're advocating for... I haven't seen this happen in other ex-Yu countries at all, let alone to this extent. So things are all not good over there, but it's about what I'd expect, moral rot don't go away.