The country’s political class is letting fascists off the hook and allowing history to be distorted. Jelena Prtorić asks: Whose purposes does this serve?
The country’s political class is letting fascists off the hook and allowing history to be distorted. Jelena Prtorić asks: Whose purposes does this serve?
On 5 January Zoran Milanović was elected the new president of Croatia. ‘Let’s be united in (our) differences,’ he declared in his victory speech to a cheering crowd, promising to make his country a more tolerant place. ‘I will not divide the Croatian citizens by [bringing up] the issues that hurt them.’
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