I believe it is a crime to make Fascist Salutes in Germany;
Yet, that whole crowd was making them in that one photograph.
So many of the old Axis powers was also the old Austro-Hungarian empire with countries like Slovakia and Hungary. As much as I think the Soviet Union repressed democracy in Hungary in the 1950s and I don’t mean to cast stones at anyone, that country was still a part of that empire.
Germany is watched too closely to give an easy resurrection to the old Nazism, though surely, it is there to an extent with your Skinheads and such.
Croatia seems very far away from the main of Europe and somewhat remote as does a lot of the former Yugoslavia; so it is something to be weary of especially, when that prominent family showed up for the concert.
But as for those deriding the church, I categorically do not do that; so much has been written both for and against such involvement. That would take much research.
You wrote:
“I believe it is a crime to make Fascist Salutes in Germany;”
I think you’re right, and yet it happens all the time in Germany too.
“Yet, that whole crowd was making them in that one photograph.”
I don’t think there is any law against it in Croatia. At least not yet. And the law would probably be ignored.
“Germany is watched too closely to give an easy resurrection to the old Nazism, though surely, it is there to an extent with your Skinheads and such.”
Yes, indeed. It is a festering problem.
“Croatia seems very far away from the main of Europe and somewhat remote as does a lot of the former Yugoslavia; so it is something to be weary of especially, when that prominent family showed up for the concert.”
Croatia is actually much more plugged into Europe than, say, Serbia. This certainly seems to be the case historically. Croatia has always had a lot of historical contacts with Italy, Germany, Austria, and so on.
“But as for those deriding the church, I categorically do not do that; so much has been written both for and against such involvement. That would take much research.”
It is a fascinating topic.