Croatia: Bleiburg Massacres Victims Still Hostages Of Communist Ideology

You’re doing great work.

With estimates of number of participants in Bleiburg commemmorations this year ranging from 30,000 up to 50,000 vs. Jasenovac numbers a mere fraction of that, what is undeniable is that Croatians recognize truth from fiction. The Partisan Communist’s modus operandi of the last 7 decades was to deny, obscure and illegitimize Croatian attempts to shed light on what occurred at Bleiburg Field in Austria and the subsequent “Way of the Cross” death marches after the end of the war in May of 1945, for which Partisans are responsible. Concurrently, for the last 7 decades Tito and his Partisan communists pushed forward an exagerrated, unsubstantiated, ideologized fiction of Jasenovac casualties( see http://kamenjar.com/igor-vukic-u-bujici-vladajuci-ce-biti-posramljeni-govorom-u-jasenovcu-istina-je-drugacija/ ) but slowly the truth will out. Those unfortunate enough to be “liberated” by those Partisans, those “antifascists” those “brotherhood and unity” standard bearers, if they survived, began speaking the truth of their experiences and began relating their stories. Thankfully, there are hundreds of documented eyewitness accounts by survivors, by British soldiers, by Slovenians, even by Partisan victimizers etc. that speak to the veracity of Croatian claims that mass killings, ad hoc executions and torturous death marches took place. Of course, much more can and needs to be done in order to recover, identify and ultimately bring a semblance of justice to the victims and their families. And an important note:
When it was impossible for Croatian consciousness to have a voice, when Croatians within Yugoslavia were being threatened, persecuted, tortured and imprisoned under the bloody communist regime of Tito and his cronies, then it was left up to the diaspora to speak the truth. It was primarily the Croatian political emigres who fled immediately after WWII(former Ustasa/ Domobrans and NDH supporters) who organized and began advocating for justice for those victims of communism, and they did so bravely! At a time when it would have been much safer for them to assimilate into the cultures of their respective adopted countries – they chose to step up and be counted. They chose, at considerable risk to themselves and their families left behind in Croatia, to be the voices in the wilderness – to organize themselves into political/cultural/religious associations, that worked in tandem to inform/ educate /promote the idea of Croatia as an independent nation and Croatians as honest, hardworking and productive citizens. Of course, both these and other goals, were continually undermined by the Yugoslav propaganda machine which continued to misinform and falsify the historical record in order to promote their communist agenda. These emigres were largely responsible for highlighting the Croatian perspective on historical events surrounding WWII and calling attention to the plight of Croatians in Yugoslavia.
“The Bleiburg tragedy especially serves as a political jumping-board because it has not been closed, it has left many questions unanswered, especially those to do with murder and extermination of innocent people and why Tito’s communists decided to treat the Home Guards the same as they treated the Ustashi, those responsible for the running of the Holocaust concentration camps. Most Ustashi leaders had fled to South America after WWII, were not among the masses of civilians and soldiers murdered at Bleiburg – who, in this terrible way, were made to carry the full burden and pay for all the crimes committed by the Ustashi regime. The victims of Bleiburg paid with their lives without knowing what it was that they had done!”
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A few things: firstly, you contend that Ustase were running “Holocaust concentration camps”; to which camps are you referring, and can you provide your references/sources list? I am eager to read the substantiation of your facts, that Jasenovac? or other? concentration camps existed and were run soley by Ustase as extermination sites…for whom? To my knowledge, there were no mass executions and certainly none of the magnitude as 800,000 claimed by “experts” to be the number killed in Jasenovac between 1941 – 1945 (see Drustvo za Iztrazivanje Trostrukog Logora Jasenovac). Now, before some suggest that even one victim is too many, I agree, but in reality, accuracy as to number of victims does matter and speaks to the duration, intent, and degree that war crimes or post war crimes may or may not have been committed. Remember that Jasenovac was used by Tito after 1945 as a communist internment camp, so the possibility exists that whatever bodies were found there may have again been victims of communist regime portrayed as victims of ustase.
Secondly, you contend that since most of the Ustase leadership fled to South America after WWII and thereby escaped the Partisans and their brand of ‘justice’, that the people who were victims of the Partisans were, implicitly, not the ones who “deserved” to be their victims?????”They paid for crimes of the Ustasa regime???? Well, firstly, what were those crimes? Please enlighten your readership as to what crimes you KNOW the Ustase committed as opposed to the crimes the communists alleged the Ustase committed. Secondly, no one deserved the fate that those poor souls met at the hands of the Partisans/antifascists – NO ONE – not even ONE civilian, not even ONE Domobran, not even ONE Ustasa, period. Thirdly, by puzzling as to why Tito’s communists chose to treat Domobrani as they did Ustase- who you add were responsible for running Holocaust extermination camps- you are differentiating between the victims and my question to you is WHY? Why are you categorizing them into sub-groups of civilians, Domobrani, Ustase and then differentiating between Ustase soldiers and Ustase leadership? Are you seeking some “antifascist” justification for the unjustifiable? Is this yet another “antifascist” spin in order gain political leverage? According to you, you do not find a preponderance of Ustasa leadership among the victims! Based on what evidence? I was not aware that forensic analysis of any of the victims had been done and that it was evidenced that only a minority of the Ustase leadership had been identified and accounted for!( Please cite your sources.)
Indeed, the victims of Bleiburg did pay with their lives, but unlike your conclusion, I contend that they knew exactly what they had done! They were the people, the citizens of NDH, they were the supporters of NDH, they were the soldiers of NDH, they were the leadership(if you will) of NDH and that was their one and only crime. They desired, realized, defended and in the hundreds of thousands, died for Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska and that alone was reason enough for their massacre at the hands of Tito’s antifascists. Just try to imagine the masses of Croatians numbering in the hundreds of thousands, fleeing their Partisan “liberators”, fleeing their Antifascist” brothers” who were freeing them from the bonds of ‘Nazism’,freeing them from ‘Fascism’ at the hands of a ‘puppet Ustasa regime’, bringing them a better tomorrow, a more just society…..try to imagine any scenario where the ones being liberated are desperately, in fear for their lives, fleeing from their liberators! ( Judge for yourselves -take a look at pictures of Zagreb on the day the” Antifascist liberators” entered the city.) The reality was that those who were fleeing the country were rightfully hoping to escape with their lives and would have been successful if the British had not opted to send them back into the hands of their communist executioners.
“I came here for the people who were killed at the end of a war. This is a tragic, horrible event, which puts a stain on a just fight and one should not run from it, nor do I run from it. I am here as Croatia’s prime minister and statesman,” Croatia’s Prime Minister said before laying a wreath at the site.
Much more than a stain, the post-war mass slaughter of Croatians fleeing the Partisans is a critical and irreversible reality from which there can be no political recovery. You just go ahead, Mr. Prime Minister and attempt to prop up the deteriorating communist illusion that the Partisan fight was a just fight. Hopefully you and your ilk will soon be out on your ears and if the honorable opposition doesn’t stand firmly on the side of the victims of communist aggression this time….. well, the writing might just be on the wall for them as well.
Za Dom Spremni!

May their families (victims) find healing and peace in our day and age.

Thanks Ina. I lost my grandfather around this time. We have no idea where his remains were dumped. He was taken from a family of 6 children and a wife (my grandma). My dad was only 3 at the time. They were left beyond poor in Hercegovina. Grand dad was also not in an army and was slaughtered for no reason by Tito’s Partisans. Their hate knew no bounds. Today their supporters still will not acknowledge this evil.
For anyone interested, the book Operation Slaughterhouse by John Prcela, has a number of horrific eyewitness accounts of these tragic events. It was published in 1970 .
One of the most devastating accounts I heard is when they found hundred of bodies in one of the mass graves and the remains of a child clutching a crucifix were found. Devastating.
What did this little boy do wrong? These poor people were buried alive in an open pit and died of asphyxiation or eventually of thirst and hunger.
There are many similarities to their deaths as what the Reds were doing to Ukrainians and others in the Soviet Union.
Hopefully one day their stories will be told to a wider audience and remembered like we remember the Katyn Forest victims, the Armenian genocide victims, and others….