BOJAN ZIZOVIC WRITES
Now it is official - CROATIA IS A PROUSTASIAN STATE
Nostalgia for the NDH has existed in this country since Croatia became independent. And while Germany is ashamed of its shameful past and bans the display of Nazi symbols, Croatia is proud of its shame. The judgment of the High Misdemeanor Court did not change anything significantly. There is no neuralgic point when everything went astray, it simply came spontaneously in Croatia, and the memorial mass for Ante Pavelić and the Ustasha parade at Bleiburg, at Thompson's parties, at football stadiums and
It was the early 90s. The very beginning of the war. Patriotic songs follow one another. They sing out loud, then separately, out loud again… I don’t remember all those videos anymore. But one cut into my memory, as if it had left a scar on my nerve cells, as if it had scraped some synapse with scissors. At first I thought it was a prank, but hardly anyone would have dared to be humorous on public television at the time. So, I saw it then like this: a man with a minivan or a permanent one, I don't understand those details, toothless, sings about a village on some rocky ground that I've never heard of. The video begins with his raspy exclamation: "For home", and then a company appears in the frame and responds: "Ready." The first thing that came to my mind was - where did the minival or permanent come from. Good thing there are no dentists, I kind of understand, but where he finds a man to do it on his head. In the middle of the war, in that dungeon, in a village with about 300 souls, on the front lines of the war, he has a tidy haircut, at least that's what it looked like to me. I imagined him under the hairdresser's hood, with a Kalashnikov on his shoulder, waiting for his hair to heat up properly, for the curls to remain when his curlers were removed.
At that moment, one forgets that this fighter, a singer, uttered an Ustasha shout at the beginning of the song. I watched the video several times and it always surprised me again and again. I would look at the curls for a moment, into the holes between my teeth for a moment, never to realize that Ustasha cry. And now to ask him where he was in the '90s… What does he say, that, among other places, he was under the hood? Hairstyling? Ma, it's out of the question.
All by the way
And so Marko Perković Thompson started his pop career. With the Ustasha call. All according to Croatian pees. Years later, years, not days, months, that shout came to court. Until then, Marko had ripped it to flesh, mixed all the consonants and vowels, put it into circulation as a macro whore, beaten it with steam and steam. But a court is a court. He doesn't care when he judges, and it's not strange for him to do that even after all the actors in a process are dying, so there is no one left to judge. Well, that court, in this case the High Misdemeanor, recently radically changed this country, gave it international recognition, special features, and ranked it among the few uncivilized states that nurture their butchery past. He did this by making the decision to shout "Ready for home" at the beginning of Marko Perković Thompson's song "
I know this is going to be tedious, but one should be honest and quote the court’s reasoning. "On June 3, 2020, a session of all judges of the High Misdemeanor Court of the Republic of Croatia was held in the presence of 20 out of a total of 23 judges. by a majority vote of all the judges of the court, there were conditions for holding a session.
At the session, among other things, under item 4 of the agenda, it was decided on the vagueness and different interpretation of the legal norm in relation to the application of Art. 5. of the Law on Misdemeanors against Public Order and Peace, when the factual description of the misdemeanor refers to the performance of the song 'Bojna Čavoglave', performed by the author in its original form containing the phrase 'Ready for home', especially in the context of the principle of legality and uniformity of court practices with respect to the position expressed in a comparable case.
Having in mind the previous unique case law of the High Misdemeanor Court of the Republic of Croatia in relation to the expression 'Ready for home' when used in different circumstances, which was not called into question, a vote was taken on the following issue: Marko Perković, which is factually described in the indictments of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Šibenik-Knin Police Department, number 511-13-10-17-74 / 2016 of 30 December 2016 and number 511-13-10-17-46 / 16 of 8 August 2016, to be brought under the legal description of the violation from Art. 5. of the Law on Misdemeanors against Public Order and Peace, which reads: Who disturbs public order and peace by performing, reproducing songs, compositions and texts or wearing or displaying symbols, texts, images, drawings in a public place.
After the hearing, with 4 votes in favor, 15 against and 1 abstention, it was decided that the described conduct in a particular case can not be subsumed under the legal description of the violation of Art. 5. of the Law on Misdemeanors against Public Order and Peace. "
June 3
I almost fell asleep, but behind that boredom lies a deceived man. From June 3, the day of the general session of the High Misdemeanor Court, Croatia can celebrate another date in its calendar of holidays, or at least hold a mass on the day it legally became a pro-Ustasha state. If anyone thinks I’m exaggerating, let them plug their ears and keep reading. Well, after all, the Constitutional Court spoke out and said that "Ready for Home" was an Ustasha salute that was not in accordance with the Croatian Constitution, but he would still not interfere. "Based on the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, the judiciary is autonomous and independent, and courts judge on the basis of the Constitution, laws, international treaties and other valid sources of law and on the facts established in each specific procedure," the Constitutional Court stated. In other words,
Judicial practice in us is like a great urgency in the patient, sometimes liquid, sometimes hard. Namely, the same court had already punished another singer for the same shout, and now I jumped in my mouth. However, this last decision remains the one that counts, which plays, which will be the advantage on the weight that relentlessly drags Croatia into the mud. Because now everyone will be able to shout, print, advertise that greeting and justify that he only quoted Marko Perković, as if this folk poet, not a pro-fascist singer, as if he was not banned from performing in many European cities for flirting with fascism.
Where is home?
And well, what's new here? Well actually nothing. Nostalgia for the NDH has existed in this country since Croatia became independent. And while Germany is ashamed of its shameful past and bans the display of Nazi symbols, Croatia is proud of its shame. This verdict did not change anything significantly. There is no neuralgic point when everything went astray, it simply came spontaneously in Croatia, and the memorial mass for Ante Pavelić and the Ustasha parade at Bleiburg, at Thompson's parties, at football stadiums and many other public places.
The job once brought me to a Thompson concert. It was in the Boćarski dom in Pazin. "Battle of Čavoglave" is starting. The man next to me goes crazy, hits his head on an aluminum stock at the entrance to the hall, blood leaks from his forehead, and he still sings with Perkovic, sees nothing of blood, but sings, sings as if he is attacking an enemy visible only to him. He was obviously ready. But I'm not sure he knew where his home was in that state.
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