We didn't chose them, they were brough here by foreign occupators, and they never enjoyed mass support in population!
Stop putting gulit on entire Croatian people for their crimes!
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We didn't chose them, they were brough here by foreign occupators, and they never enjoyed mass support in population!
Stop putting gulit on entire Croatian people for their crimes!
Ustaše were Pro-German and Anti-Slavic
Modern Croats are Pro-German and Anti-Slavic.
Not to mention Zlatko Hasanbegovic, Ustasa from recent Croatian Government who said "I am Ustasa"
So If government support Ustasa politicians, if Croats themselves are Pro-Germanic, Anti-Russian... then what is there to think but to compare majority of Croats with Ustasa.
While your point stands that the blame shouldn't be put on the whole of Croatian people, it is ridiculous to designate them as an outside factor.
The Nazis installed them because they were willing to be cooperative, but they didn't create them.
History
Before World War II
In October 1928, after the assassination of leading Croatian politician Stjepan Radić, Croatian Peasant Party President in the Yugoslav Assembly by radical Montenegrin politician Puniša Račić, a youth group named the Croat Youth Movement was founded by Branimir Jelić at the University of Zagreb. A year later Ante Pavelić was invited by the 21-year-old Jelić into the organization as a junior member. A related movement, the Domobranski Pokret—which had been the name of the legal Croatian army in Austria-Hungary—began publication of Hrvatski Domobran, a newspaper dedicated to Croatian national matters. The Ustaše sent Hrvatski Domobran to the United States to garner support for them from Croatian-Americans. The organization around the Domobran tried to engage with and radicalize moderate Croats, using Radić's assassination to stir up emotions within the divided country. By 1929 two divergent Croatian political streams had formed: those who supported Pavelić's view that only violence could secure Croatia's national interests, and the Croatian Peasant Party, led then by Vladko Maček, successor to Stjepan Radić, which had much greater support among Croats.
World War II
The Axis Powers invaded Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941. Vladko Maček, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), which was the most influential party in Croatia at the time, rejected German offers to lead the new government. On 10 April the most senior home-based Ustaša, Slavko Kvaternik, took control of the police in Zagreb and in a radio broadcast that day proclaimed the formation of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH). The name of the state was an attempt to capitalise on the Croat struggle for independence. Maček issued a statement that day, calling on all Croatians to cooperate with the new authorities.
Meanwhile Pavelić and several hundred Ustaše left their camps in Italy for Zagreb, where he declared a new government on 16 April 1941.