Thread by @HCroats

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After 🇭🇷 won the🥉place in #WorldCup2022, 🇭🇷 players celebrated by singing patriotic songs by Marko Perković Thompson, including his iconic '90s song "Bojna Čavoglave" w/ its opening verse "Za dom spremni". Countless anti-🇭🇷 activists labeled 🇭🇷 players & the song as #fascist

THE SUPREME COURT OF CROATIA on the salute "Za dom spremni" of the patriotic song "Bojna Čavoglave" by Marko Perković Thompson: "In the appeal the prosecutor claims that the defendant [Thompson] knowingly and intentionally encouraged the audience to participate in the performance

of that salute in the manner in which that salute was performed as official salute of the totalitarian regime of the Independent State of Croatia. However, at the same time the prosecutor ignores the fact that in this specific case it is about the defendant's authored song

performed during a legally organized concert, and what follows from the submission by Croatian Composers' Society on the 29th of May 2018 - Croatian Composers Society's registered song.
In addition, the prosecutor ignores the fact that this salute in the context of the creation

of the song - during the Homeland War [Serbian aggression on Croatia – HOC], a 'just, legitimate, defensive and liberating [war]' - is being perceived beyond/without totalitarian or racist context. It is widely known that this song, with its incriminating opening verse, had been

performed on daily basis during the defense of our country in the Homeland War, precisely encouraging and calling for the defense of the homeland, without any connection with the totalitarian regime of some 50 years ago.

Taking into account everything pointed out ... it has not been proven that the disputed salute, which is an integral part of the lyrics of 'Bojna Čavoglave' song, had been performed by the defendant in an explicit connection [!!] with the Ustasha symbols".

Many thanks to Marko Perković Tompson's lawyer and Croatian patriot @hrsummerstorm
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