Outstanding piece by Stella Jatras - thanks Doctor13 for posting this.
The Croatians literally got away with murder while the fingers of blame kept pointing to the Serbs. This point cannot be emphasized enough.
The Croatian Ustashe and their Bosnian Muslim “brothers in arms” NEVER would have had the means or the guts, either in WWII Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia or in 1990’s Yugoslavia, to have committed their crimes against humanity without Germany’s blessing.
Croatia and Muslim “Bosnia” then, can be viewed as a post WWI Austria-Hungary. Except Austria-Hungary actually contributed some good and positive things to the world.
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The Croatian soldiers were also known for their natty neckwear, which was called hrrvat (which is Croatian for "Croat) or hravat, named after them: cravat.