A segment of Melbourne Knights (Croatia) fans are still giving props to Nazism (photos located next to Melbourne Knights stadium in Somers Street, Sunshine North). Note that in 2007 the Melbourne Croatia Social Club hosted the annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial gig, organised by local neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour (Australia) and the (Southern Cross) Hammerskins. The subject of fascist Croatian dictator Ante Pavelić and his veneration by segments of the local Croatian community remains a bone of contention in Melbourne (and elsewhere).
I’m shocked. Shocked!
Commercial construction job, couple years back, working w/ some Croats. Warm day & they’re in their singlets.
“What’s that about?”, asks my Irish mate of the sturm und drang tattoos
“Oh, to do with the war” the reply
“Chetniks, or Ustashe?”, I ask by way of clarification
“Ustashe”
Awkward silence.
Now I’m inclined to discretion, but curiosity has the better of Irish “You know something about this?”
“Yeah. Allied to the Nazis”
Irish just bursts out laughing. And for the rest of the day he’s quizzing me: Why would anybody get a tattoo of a bunch of losers?
Those Croats were alright, just a little naive.
Anyway I figure we’ll be down to Fed Square, & see off the boneheads.
tres jolly jim. lreland is being overrun with third worlders too now, l bet ‘irish’ is getting a great laugh out of that lulz (wonder if his sister has been raped by a cultural improver yet).