ACTION AGAINST THE EXHIBITION “SERBIAN WOMAN” IN VUKOVAR: Dinamo fans plastered the city with photographs of Chetniks and JNA soldiers!

The fan group of the Croatian football club Dinamo, Bad Blue Boys (BBB) from Vukovar, plastered large photographs of Chetniks and JNA members from the time of the last war in that city.

The photographs were pasted on the building of the Joint Council of Municipalities, the body of Serbs in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and Western Syrmia.

They also placed banners that read “Ko o čemu – Srbi o herojima” (Who is talking about what – Serbs about heroes) and, an even larger one, “Vlada RH ili RSK!?” (Government of the Republic of Croatia or RSK!?)

In this way, they reacted to the announced opening, planned for tonight, of the exhibition “Serbian Woman, Heroine of the Great War” in Vukovar, organized by the Serbian Cultural Center Vukovar, the Joint Council of Municipalities, and the General Consulate of the Republic of Serbia, on the occasion of Armistice Day in World War I.

The opening of the exhibition is uncertain; the decision will be made by the competent authorities of the Serbian national minority in Croatia, after the Mayor of Vukovar requested its postponement, and the Minister of Culture Nina Obuljen Koržinek also spoke about the unacceptability of opening such an exhibition. For her, the exhibition is unacceptable at this moment, as she stated, not because of the content, but because of the impression.

And, on the Facebook page of the Bad Blue Boys fan group, it was announced that “it is difficult to fathom why such an exhibition in Vukovar right now at this time and why go back so deep into the past when there is so much material and so many Serbian heroes from some not so distant wars”…

Regarding the recent incident in Split, when a group of masked men, accompanied by Ustaša chants, prevented the holding of a Folklore Evening within the Days of Serbian Culture, the BBB group writes on Facebook: “This is not about some circle dance, but a cunningly conceived provocation.”

It is difficult, they add, to believe that Serbs in Croatia will live better when the exhibition reminds them of the heroes from the First World War, which seems like it “was yesterday” compared to the Homeland War, whose heroes and values are systematically suppressed.

“It is difficult and sad to see that there are those who do not see how this is not about some circle dance from a Cultural and Artistic Society, but a cunningly conceived provocation, and considering the events and the current situation on the other side of the eastern border, it would very likely be better and more useful to deal with culture there, it would be appropriate (maybe, just maybe, considering the tradition – it would be really difficult).

It is difficult, they say, to discern whether such decisions and moves are made by the Government of the Republic of Croatia or the RSK.

“Perhaps next year, along with Armistice Day, which marks the end of the Great War, the Vidovdan assassination, with which the same proud celebrators started it, should also be marked. Something like a friendly exhibition of the character and work of the hero Gavrilo Princip. Or maybe the Government should mark the victorious pilgrimage for team building, to Corfu, for example,” the post on the official page of the Bad Blue Boys – Vukovar states.

It is difficult, they state, “to understand that there are those who renounce their own name, history, and culture, and in such a way that they contradictorily promote the very culture that wanted to destroy ours, however, we are still here, there are still Croats.”

“Long live Dinamo and mother Croatia,” the Dinamo fans said.