The hard part with the Croats is that most of the Nazi Ustashi were never caught and punished and Croatia was never really de-Nazified, so consequently the old Ustashi never really felt "defeated". They just lived on in the diaspora, continuing to award each other "medals" -- even for doing heinous things like running the death camp at Jasenovac.
Check this out as a piece of historical memorabilia. It is a 1970's Croat Ustasha medal (for sale on eBay) honoring those who served at the Jasenovac deathcamp. It's the equivalent of giving a medal -- in the 1970's -- to the German Nazi soldiers who served at Dachau! If you look below the listing, at least this seller had the guts to say exactly who the Ustashi were and what they did at Jasenovac, but they are still selling this vile stuff! (Sorry for using eBay as an example, but it is rare that you can see so much of this Ustashe memorabilia in one place.)
There is more -- a 1989 medal honoring Nazi Ustashe Ante Pavelic's birth. And if you keep looking, you find Croat Ustashe military badges from the 1990's Croat war and "Pavelic keychains" from the 1990's. They Ustashi never died, they just went underground in the diapora and returned in the late 1980's
So when Zuroff says, "Hey! Quit commemorating Nazis!", Croats just don't get it. They think, "Wait a minute. Those Ustase won us our country, not once but twice! Pavelic was our Patrick Henry!", even if Pavelic and the Ustashi were bloodthirsty Nazis who had hundreds of thousands of non-Croats murdered WWII deathcamps. And it is very sad, because we in the West let this happen -- we helped the bad guys (Ustashi) win, so now these Nazis & neo-Nazis are revered as "national heroes". And by "bad guys", I don't mean "Croats" or "Croatia", but rather the Ustase and their ideology, specifically.
Why wasn’t I flagged to this?