The Workers Front party, a member of the parliamentary We Can! platform, on Friday condemned President Zoran Milanovic's recent statement about antifascism, describing it as an untruth and dangerous relativisation that contributes to growing historical revisionism.

“Milanovic’s statement that ‘not everyone can be an antifascist’, to which he added that ‘most people are Home Guards, which is all right’, is an untruth and dangerous relativisation that contributes to growing revisionism. The people of Croatia, both Croats and Serbs, took part in the (World War II) National Liberation Movement in large numbers, and to falsify that means to spit on the graves of those who with their participation in that movement did Croatia proud,” the party said in a statement.

It notes that it is true that a large number of people were members of the Home Guards, the regular army of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), which was a quisling state and an occupied territory, under the conclusions of the Nuremberg trials at which members of the Nazi regime, the NDH’s sponsor, were convicted.

“We condemn this statement just as we condemn his statement on the (WWII) Gata massacre which was motivated either by complete igorance or by malevolent relativisation and revisionism. We also cannot ignore President Milanovic’s other recent statements which contain elements of sexism and ad hominem attacks and which have been wholeheartedly supported by the Right, which says the most about Milanovic and his statements,” the party said.

The Workers Front notes that it did not support Milanovic in the second round of presidential elections because it did not see any significant difference between him and former president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.