Domovina Urednistvo
According to the Calvert Journal, earlier this week Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announced a possible ban on all totalitarian symbols, including the red star.
Experts, said the article, were quick to voice concern after Monday’s announcement, arguing that the move carries particular risk with regard to the red star — the star served as the emblem of the Communist-led Yugoslav Partisan army, which fought the Axis powers in the Second World War and took power in Yugoslavia in 1945.
“We are aware of the sensitivity aroused by the symbol, however, such symbols were approved in the past, at institutional and government level”, said Plenković.
He pointed out different rulings issued by the courts related to the symbols of totalitarian systems and announced that the government would establish a committee to consider the issue in a calm and rational way. The goal is to adopt an acceptable legal solution, in order to determine the position of the society towards the symbols of totalitarian regimes, said Plenković.
So far, there are absolutely no details about how a possible law on banning the symbols of totalitarian regimes would look like, whether their usage would be considered to be a crime or a misdemeanor, and who will draft the proposal.
Sources say that the law should identify a five-pointed star as a symbol of communism, but they do note that it is also a symbol of antifascist struggle and that its ban would spark a revolt.
