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WRITTEN BY JURICA PAVIČIĆ J Why Hrvatski tjednik, after dozens of vulgar covers, has only now become 'morally monstrous' Minister Medved and General Lucić are now foaming at the mouth of the Zadar newspaper because of a caricature of a minister in a bear's hair Josip Lucic Josip Lucic Zeljko Puhovski / Cropix Posted: September 05, 2020 9:53 pm Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail I believe that I am the last man in the world who would like to defend Hrvatski tjednik. For me, that Zadar paper was and remains a sediment, the deepest hollow of the political and ideological sewer. For those who have not yet put on rubber gloves and become familiar with this toxic media product, just a brief description. The Croatian weekly regularly publishes affirmative articles about the Ustashas and the Independent State of Croatia. The paper, edited by Ivica Marijačić, enthusiastically publishes interviews with convicted war criminals. These are newspapers that regularly trample on basic, proper humanity. It is a paper that - here is an example - in a multi-page exposition accused a sexually abused minor of being to blame for being raped. If Hrvatski tjednik is such a newspaper, then it is especially such a front page. In recent years, the Zadar weekly has published so many terrible covers that it is difficult to list them. We saw everything on that cover: Tito with bloody vampire teeth, Kolinda with inappropriate sexist epithets, and Pope Bergoglio with the title "Satanist" and "Chetnik". We have, of course, also seen Pupovac holding a severed Croatian head in his arms, a head from which red roto-blood is dripping. I, too, purely as an insignificant disclaimer, was once an episode writer on the cover of Hrvatski tjednik. It was somewhere in the time of the Declaration of Language, I remember that a photo appeared on the cover in a proud and revered society, and a big appeal on the cover called me and the rest of the society to finally "die" (Or "die"? I don't remember well) . It is therefore not difficult to agree that the covers of Hrvatski tjednik - or at least some of them - are "vulgar" and that they are "morally monstrous". That they are "the most shameful picture seen in these 30 years", that they are "inadmissible" and that "by opening conflicts and divisions, they are holding Croatia hostage to Greater Serbia policies". If so, I think so, I thought so a hundred and fifty covers ago, and fifty, and five years ago. This week, however, the society of us who think so has gained a new, unexpected member. Our club was joined by retired general and vice president of the Croatian General Assembly Josip Lucić. Last week, the Zadar paper published (only) another in a bunch of its cartoon, polemical covers. The cover of Hrvatski tjednik appeared on newsstands only a few days after the double celebration / commemoration of Oluja and the victims of Oluja in Knin and Grubori. The cover caricature is a commentary on this new Croatian-Serbian parahistorical detente. It shows Milorad Pupovac in Central Serbian chakshiras and shajkaci giving rhythm to some military drum. Next to him is Plenković in a European tailcoat. Plenković holds a chain in his hand, and there is a teddy bear on the chain dancing to Pupovac's rhythm. In short, "dancing bear". It's just that this "bear" this time has the head of the Minister of Croatian Veterans, Tomo Medved. And so that readers with an IQ of less than 85 (that is, I guess, the target audience) would not miss the point, there is also a signpost in the corner of the drawing where it says "Grubori". Is it a base, huh? Pupovac gives the rhythm, everyone dances the way he plays, and Plenković, as the brains of everything, leads the Bear on a leash. In short, there is nothing in that caricature that is original, at least in traces. The bear on the chain is a general place of cartoon political propaganda, you could find dozens of examples of cartoons with a musician and a beast on a leash, and one Soviet, Cominform one comes to mind: Tito is a bear and he dances on a chain of evil Western capitalists. The political content of the caricature, frankly, is not particularly new either. We no longer even remember how many times we heard Plenković "dancing" as Pupovac dictates, in various variations we listened to the political myth that this country is led from the shadows by the evil mastermind Milorad. We listened to those political constructions from Bulj and Zekanović, from the columnists of the middle-stream media (like Ivica Šola), and from the godfathers on the market. In the last ten years, in short, Hrvatski tjednik published hundreds of covers and caricatures according to which this one with Medved is a lukewarm camel. While so many front pages of the Zadar paper have torn the fundamental humanity, the one in question is just a benign, banal political satire. True: unoriginal, witty and stupid satire - but still just satire. RELATED NEWS Tomo Medved 'HE PASSED THE EXAM' Bear about his driver mentioned in the investigation against Rimac: 'I talked to him, he didn't know ...' 'WE DON'T GIVE IT!' In the General Assembly, horrified by the cover of Hrvatski tjednik: 'The most shameful picture in 30 years!' Then, after so many years and after dozens and dozens of cartoon covers, why has Hrvatski tjednik suddenly become "inadmissible", "vulgar" and "morally monstrous"? Why, after a full ten years of "opening conflicts and divisions", has it only now become unacceptable to open conflicts and divisions, and why is it only now that it suddenly turns Croatia into a "hostage of Greater Serbia policies"? Why was Hrvatski tjednik not a problem before? Why has “opening up conflict and division” not been disgusting before? Let's say, in the time of the tent on the Sava? Was it because "ours" were not in power then? Or because the man from the cartoon - Plenković - played us with privileges and surrounded us with money? Both the current Minister of Defense, Tomo Medved, and the man who defends him - General Lucić - were, in the broadest sense, part of the veteran-parapolitical movement that in 2014. emerged around the veteran tent on the Sava. At that time, the aggressive part of veterans close to the right was doing exactly what Hrvatski tjednik andIvica Marijačić . They attacked the then, according to them, treacherous executive power. They bid with patriotism. They accused the government of making a pact with the Serbs. They threatened to expel the "Yugoslavs". They kept repeating that the war of the 1990s was "relativized", that only black and shameful things (like Grubori) were taken out, that the aggressor was equated and attacked. The tents, in short, "opened conflicts and divisions", and those who found themselves overwhelmed by this demagogic element - like Fred Matić - even then, like Lucić now, repeated that this rage was turning us into "hostages of Greater Serbia politics". Needless to say, the HDZ - which was in opposition at the time - was rubbing its hands. The tent was largely a project of the paraintelligence HDZ wing, Kolinda Grabar Kitarović first went to greet the tent after the presidential victory, and when the HDZ won the parliamentary elections, thanks in large part to the tent, many tent satellites were given political functions. Among them, after all, is the Bear, who moved from the tent to the floor of the ministry in front of which he was protesting. Six years later, the roles have changed a bit. The HDZ is now in power, not in opposition. Now the HDZ - Zekanović, Bartulica and Pauletić will say - "relativizes" the war of the 90s, now the HDZ recognizes black and shameful things, now the HDZ is the one who - as they say? - "equates the attacked and the aggressor". Now the HDZ - indeed, and formally - "makes a pact with the Serbs." The remnants of the right are now attacking the HDZ as they once did the SDP. Now Medved is pursuing a policy because of which his friends so mutilated Fred Matić, and Lucić and the General Assembly are uttering sentences that, horrified by the tent element, were uttered in 2014 by liberal commentators. Really, aren’t “conflicts and divisions” good? Really, Hrvatski tjednik is "morally monstrous"? Well, good afternoon. Nice of you, thanks, we didn't know. Medved and Lucić are now foaming at the mouth of the Zadar newspaper because of a caricature of a minister in bear hair. But both Medved and Lucić should be reminded that the Zadar paper utters only their sentences, perpetuates their political myths, fuels their imaginary taken out of the freezer from 2014. Only it is no longer 2014. It is no longer 2014, and in those six years some happened details. In the meantime, for example, "both fell" and the HDZ came to power. And as we know, in the Croatian General Assembly, Croatian veteran demography and in Croatia as such, double criteria apply. Some when "ours is in power", others when they are "theirs". It’s no longer 2014, and in those six years something else happened. There was a new law on veterans that expanded and petrified veteran privileges, and turned some of them into hereditary feudal laziness for children and tools of personnel supremacy. If the top of the tent movement abruptly changed its mind about some things, then that opinion was generously bought. It was bought with a full plate in which they are not crazy just to spit. There was a new law on veterans that expanded and petrified veteran privileges, and turned some of them into hereditary feudal laziness for children and a tool of personnel supremacy. If the top of the tent movement abruptly changed its mind about some things, then that opinion was generously bought. It was bought with a full plate in which they are not crazy just to spit. There was a new law on veterans that expanded and petrified veteran privileges, and turned some of them into hereditary feudal laziness for children and tools of personnel supremacy. If the top of the tent movement abruptly changed its mind about some things, then that opinion was generously bought. It was bought with a full plate in which they are not crazy just to spit. And - let's just say - they are not the only ones. During the first four years of Plenković's term, the bishops and a significant part of the Church quietly raged against the "Brussels chat" and the "child of the red bourgeoisie." With undisguised contempt, they hissed that Plenković had tricked Istanbul, that he had not let them have a new family law and a stricter abortion. And then came the election, the bishops wagged their tails, left Škora to clean up, slipped with the HDZ like old, cunning spouses, and barely a day after Plenković's new victory removed the HDZ-unfriendly editors of Glas Koncil. Why? We found out why these days. Because, say, of the 20 million kuna of the EU available through the community investment program, 17.7 million was allocated to the Church and church infrastructure. Because the anonymous commission of the ministry devised a scoring system in which the religious need is scored 33 percent more than the needs in education, social affairs and culture. Because the Church - as well as the tent - has finely charged for its "change of mind." Therefore, we can expect another institution to come forward these days and call for an end to "conflict and division". To announce another important actor and condemn the drawings on which the ministers dance like bears. That institution will, of course, be the Catholic Church.