This intellectual masterpiece hasn't been spitted out by one of the drunk Schwartz's [leader of Croatian neo-Nazi's] fascists but by the president of the Croatian republic, Dr. Franjo Tudman. This statement wasn't made in a pub at the Zagreb train station, but was published on the pages of the London Financial Times, last Thursday, May 30, exactly on the Croatian statehood day, and recorded by well known journalist Laura Silber, also known as the author of the book about the BBC documentary "Death of Yugoslavia".
After all, the objects of Tudman's morally justified racist rage, "the ideologues of Yugoslav communist regime, children of Yugoslav army officers and the offspring from mixed marriages of Serbs and Croats", are the journalists from Feral Tribune whose trial for the slander of the Croatian president will start in a few weeks in Zagreb.
An interesting character, that Croatian president. The majority of Croats did not need to read his statement to the Financial Times in order to understand that, for a first time since Ante Pavelic [Croatian fascist leader during W.W.II], they are being led to a brighter future by a declared racist; still this statement will be useful for a better understanding of the strategy for national development which is served [to the public] under the title "race and power". Namely, the implementation of the great national task is neither easy nor a theoretical undertaking; the chief executive will have to rewrite more-or-less everything: recent and ancient history, internal and external political reality, and finally the origin and composition of the blood cells of mandatory enemies.
As a descendant of a traditionally civilian family in whose veins flows pure Croatian blood (which fills him with happiness, haemoglobin and shame) the author of this article wonders what really bothers the Croatian leader? What is his problem? They say that Hitler's aunt was a Jew (we won't mention here Pavelic's wife) and that a private hatred and frustration, since it couldn't have been acted out on a psychiatric couch or through sport, was partly built in a global ethnic mission and a grandiose National Program. What are the links between General Tudman, the Yugoslav Peoples Army and mixed marriages?
As far as Feral is concerned, the president has gone back on some of his previous accusations. A few months ago at the session of his party's Central Committee, he said that the journalists and collaborators of this paper were the followers of "Chetnik platoons" [Serb royalist army during W.W.II, committed crimes against Croatian and Muslim civilians] and "Orjunas units" who used to "beat up Croatian people". These Croatian people, who are safe and sound today, demand protection from him and ask in their letters for his help:
"I receive letters, from ordinary citizens and university professors. They ask me: 'Mister President, why does the state allow such lunacy and humiliation of Croatia?'" says Dr. Franjo Tudman in Financial Times. European concern because of the attacks on freedom of press in Croatia he deems "absolutely without basis and totally unacceptable," since "That is not freedom of press. That is not democracy, that is anarchy!" Yes, that is a wolf! That is madness! That is a president!
(In brackets, as appropriate, let us mention that Europe, after all, is something else. On the same page of the Financial Times where the "dossier Croatia" was given a detailed treatment we can also see a paid advertisement of "Kapitol Bank" - "Croatia's first company for managing investment funds". The owner of that company is a young businessman Dejan Kosutic; he founded the bank with the capital provided by his mother Nevenka Tudman [President Tudman's daughter] , private entrepreneur and the owner of a store in Zagreb. The "Kapitol Bank" advertisement in the Financial Times was adorned by the motto: "When investing in the country of the future, seek out those who produce opportunities!"
That is Europe. Free market of people, capital and ideas. Europe doesn't care that Nevenka is a child of a former Yugoslav Peoples Army general [president Franjo Tudman], and Dejan a child from a mixed marriage [Dejan's father, Nevenka's former husband is a Serb].
As far as the domestic affairs are concerned, once everything is put together, Feral's journalists had a pretty lenient treatment: the man who falsely introduced them as "the ideologues of the Yugoslav communist regime", "children of the Yugoslav army officers", and "the offspring from the mixed Croat and Serb marriages", with the obvious implications that these things are horrible in itself, has certain problems with his own pure-Croatian pedigree: he is the former Yugoslav peoples Army officer, father of an officer's child, grandfather of a child from a mixed Croat-Serb marriage and his only bright spot is that his wife is neither Serb nor Jewish [during the 1991 election campaign Dr. Franjo Tudman stated that he was grateful that his wife was neither a Serb nor a Jew]. Although she was a Yugoslav Army officer. Ciao.)