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<strong>SNV</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> <strong>#6</strong> / 84<br />
NDH’s only fault was that it collapsed and compared the Ustasha<br />
principles with the Bible.<br />
At the start of the summer of <strong>2015</strong>, a photo went viral on social<br />
networks of high school students from the Prva Gimnazija (First<br />
General Education Secondary School) in Split who posed with<br />
their right arm raised high in the air. Mladen Leovac, a war veteran<br />
from Vukovar and member of the HSP party who used to serve in<br />
the special police forces, commented on his Facebook profile on<br />
the news about a case of poisoning among pupils in Vojvodina<br />
(Serbia) with the following words: “I hope to God that all Serbs<br />
should perish like rats in a barrel...” Many of his friends then congratulated<br />
him, offering ideas on how to make his wish come true.<br />
/1.5. Public Gatherings and Street Actions<br />
Along with the war veterans’ year-long protest in front of the<br />
Ministry of Veterans building, their action of placing gas tanks in<br />
the streets and evoking a coup while they barricaded themselves<br />
inside St. Mark’s church, this year was also marked by several<br />
protests against events that were Serb or anti-fascist in character.<br />
Aside from the already traditional provocations of pro-fascist<br />
parties and veteran associations in Jadovno and Srb, a protest<br />
was held against a round table event entitled “Second War” at<br />
the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka, where members of the<br />
audience were physically attacked. This happened on August 5<br />
while the central state ceremony marking the 20 th anniversary of<br />
Operation Storm was held in Knin. During the day, hate speech<br />
was recorded at several locations in Knin, as was the sale and<br />
public display of the proscribed Ustasha insignia. The celebration<br />
ended with Marko Perković Thompson’s concert and shouts from<br />
the audience “Kill the Serb”.<br />
/1.5.1. Revisionism – rehabilitation of the Ustasha<br />
The City of Zagreb initially refused to register the Society for<br />
research of the triple Jasenovac camp which focuses on revising<br />
and diminishing the established facts, saying the Society’s purpose<br />
contradicted the Constitution. However, following an appeal<br />
on April 27, the registration was granted after all. Among the<br />
founders are Jesuit Vladimir Horvat, co-author of the book “The<br />
Jasenovac Lie Exposed” and Tomislav Vuković, one of the editors<br />
of the Glas Koncila Catholic weekly, whose book “A Different
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