It’s unfortunate that Croatia has decided to whitewash the Ustasha.
Similar events happened with Baltic collaborators as well.
People try to equate this with the Chetniks being rehabilitated, but the Chetniks weren’t loyal Nazi allies the way the left makes them out to be.
The Ustasha were terrible and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, but they were a small group of fanatics put in power by the Germans with very little support among the population. I think they must be referring to the "home army" or Domobrani, who did not share in the Ustasha ideology and many of whom deserted and joined the Partisans as time went by--the home army types were involved in few if any of the crimes of the Ustasha but they are sometimes referred to as if they were Ustasha.
I don't know anything about the pensions but I doubt there could be anywhere close to 10,000 real Ustasha (or their spouses) alive by this time.
The Ustasha were terrible and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, but they were a small group of fanatics put in power by the Germans with very little support among the population. I think they must be referring to the "home army" or Domobrani, who did not share in the Ustasha ideology and many of whom deserted and joined the Partisans as time went by--the home army types were involved in few if any of the crimes of the Ustasha but they are sometimes referred to as if they were Ustasha.
I don't know anything about the pensions but I doubt there could be anywhere close to 10,000 real Ustasha (or their spouses) alive by this time.