Austrian Writer Peter Handke: Send my award to the Serbs

ERPKIM ^ | June 23, 2006 | By D. Sekulic

[Dragonfly]

FYI, a recent interview with Peter Handke:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/magazine/02wwln_q4.html?ex=1309492800&en=a0b71334b5bf11a5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Bokababe]

Thanks, Dragonfly!

Interesting that Handke describes himself as a classical writer and criticizes those who attempt to make political statements with their work.

[G. Stolyarov II]

No city council has the right to deny a private organization the ability to award money to *whomever it pleases* for *whatever reasons.* The council's decision amounted to a restriction of the freedom of association between Handke and the Berlin Ensemble -- a coercive deprivation of economic opportunities and justly-earned rewards from a person solely on the basis of that person's political views. Such blatant censorship would not occur in today's United States -- and this case serves as a clear illustration of how much freer we are here in the U. S. compared to Germany.

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[Diocletian]

Tudjman was worse than a Communist - basically he was a neo-Nazi.

Utterly false. Tudjman was a great man, a great Roman Catholic, and a hero.

[Diocletian]

Too much crap, too much propaganda, on this thread.

[Bokababe]

"Utterly false. Tudjman was a great man, a great Roman Catholic, and a hero."

Are you serious?

Do you think that thanking God that your wife is neither Serb nor Jew is what makes a great Roman Catholic and "a hero?

I would think ministering to the poor, the dejected, and being humiliated for it by the world for it would be a much closer model to "a Roman Catholic hero" -- and that far better describes Handke than Tudjman.

But then again, what do I know? I am only the "heretic" that Tudjman thanked God that his wife wasn't!

[getoffmylawn]

He was a politician.

[montyspython]

Yes, a shifty one at that.

[Diocletian]

When he said that "Thank God my wife was neither a Serb nor a Jew" he meant that he was neither a communist nor a fascist because Tito had a Serbian wife and Pavelic had a Jewish wife.

And now you know the context of his statement.

[Diocletian]

Yes he was, and a great one at that.

[Diocletian]

I disagree. He managed to pull off what no others could for almost 900 years, and with the odds so stacked against him.

[Bokababe]

"He managed to pull off what no others could for almost 900 years, and with the odds so stacked against him."

Yes, he did -- by inviting back all the symbols of genocidal WWII Nazi Croatia... the flag, the money, and the exiled war criminals who were installed into positions of power. And then by restoring the same alliance with Germany that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies the last time around. And then adding to that list of victims with Operation Storm, killing and driving out thousands of unarmed, innocent Serb civilian victims from the Krajina.

If you call that being "a good Catholic", then I think God would be more pleased with "a tree worshipper"!

I feel sorry for the Croat Catholic with a soul (my cousin was one), who now has to deal with the fact that "the Father of his Country" was a murderous, goose-stepping, Neo-Nazi war criminal. How can anything ever be right when it was founded on something so wrong and evil?

Germany, with Tudjman's help, resurrected Croatia for its own purposes. You can revel in that only because "the bill for German services" has not yet been presented. Wait until it is. And then will Croatia join Germany against the US as it has two World Wars before? Probably!

[eleni121]

You mean there are actually those who admire a pro-Nazi fascist Ustashas like Tudjman still around and post here?

He was responsible for the massacreing of thousands of fellow Christian Serbs...he is a beastly monster and God (or Satan) only knows where his soul lies writhing.

[Bokababe]

"You mean there are actually those who admire a pro-Nazi fascist Ustashas like Tudjman still around and post here?"

Apparently so. Took me by surprise. Most Croats I know today want to crawl into a hole at the mere mention of his name.

[FormerLib]

You mean there are actually those who admire a pro-Nazi fascist Ustashas like Tudjman still around and post here?

You can't expect the mods to be able to catch every Stormfront poster.

[Diocletian]

The flag predates NDH and isn't the same one used by NDH. The "kuna" has been used as currency in Croatia since the 15th century, also predating NDH.

Nothing wrong with allying with Germany since it isn't the Nazi state but an American ally and a Western democracy.

As for "Krajina", there is no such place considering that the Vojna Krajina was disbanded in 1881 and that it always had a Croatian majority, and Knin was never part of "Krajina" anyway.

How could Tudjman be a "neo-nazi" when he himself fought the Axis as an antifascist partizan?

Your knowledge of history sucks.

[Diocletian]

Sorry, but he's a hero who saved his nation from communism directed from Belgrade.

[Diocletian]

The only Croats who don't like Tudjman are communists and Soros employees.

[Diocletian]

Speaking about yourself? The FR Serbs can vouch for me. But all you seem to have are ad hominem attacks....

[Bokababe]

How could Tudjman be a "neo-nazi" when he himself fought the Axis as an antifascist partizan?

Tito wanted to win the civil war, so when Nazi Germany started falling apart, Tito offered all the ex-Croat Nazi Ustasha the chance to join him and the Partisans. I have no doubt that Tudjman was one of those who took up that offer.

So you admit that Tudjman fought FOR COMMUNISM during WWII? Even Milosevic didn't do that! LOL!