Disgraceful: Croatian tabloid's photo montage depicts President Vucic as giving Nazi salute

Photo: Express

A day after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic repeated that "Jasenovac (Croatian WW2 death camp) is not a myth but a terrible truth" - the Croatian outlet Express chose to present Vucic in a scandalous and extremely inappropriate manner.

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Namely, that news outlet published a photo montage by which they "showed" Serbian President Vucic draped in the Croatian flag, holding his right hand up, alluding to the Nazi salute. And with a clown's nose.

Croatia's Express, reports Objektiv, even published Vucic's childhoof photo - accompanying it with the scandalous statement that he "lied about his family members dying in Jasenovac."

Historian Dejan Ristic told Telegraf.rs that any comment is redundant and that the front page is disgraceful.

"To present a descendant of a genocide survival like this deservse no comment except - it's disgraceful," said Ristic.

Political analyst and sociologist Dejan Vuk Stankovic pointed out that the front page of the Croatian Express is direct evidence of the negative obsession with President Vucic in a large part of the Croatian political media public.

Photo: Express

"The photo montage on the front page is done professionally, it's  politically and in human terms scandalous because the president of another country is literally portrayed as a lunatic. It is a malicious form of dissent. At the same time, it is clear that Croatia is frustrated because Vucic stresses the policy of remembering the Serb victims of Croatian criminals during the Second World War and the wars of the 1990s," said Stankovic.

He added that the culture of memory radically changes the image of Serbs and Croats and calls into question the "black" narrative of Serbs as barbarians and aggressors - on which the aggressive Croatian war and post-war political propaganda rests.

Recently, President Vucic was not allowed to honor the victims of the Jasenovac (WW2 death) camp, and his request to go to Croatia resulted in a campaign in the tabloids in that state.

The president then commented that there is a campaign against him in Croatia that is being orchestrated from the very top of the Croatian government, but that he will always talk about the Serb victims and will not allow the Nazi atrocities to pass as if they never happened.

He said this in response to a journalist's question about dozens of headlines against him in the Croatian press, as well as whether such a campaign will be intensified ahead of Croatia's "Operation Storm" anniversary.

Vucic also noticed that this has been ongoing not for a week, but a year and a half, and that it will not stop.

The president said at the time that he would not allow revisionist history, which, he stressed, involves a huge amount of money, and to the comments of the Croatian media that he should be arrested when he comes to Jasenovac, he replied that it was perfectly fine, but that he would not be silenced, because he will continue to always speak about the anti-fascist and anti-Nazi choice of the Serbian people.

(Telegraf.rs)