Aleksandar Vulin (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)
Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin in the evening on June 6 said that Croatia had taken the wrong side in both world wars.
“The Croatian Foreign Ministry can lie and make insults, but it cannot deny that the Croats unmistakably took the wrong side in both world wars and that they would have stayed there had not been for the victorious Serbs, who were generous enough or naive enough to take them out of prison camps and place in the winning team,” it is said in a Vulin’s response to an earlier statement of the Croatian Foreign Ministry.
Vulin further said he understood Croatia’s anger over Serbia’s rejection to be a part of the anti-Russian frenzy, adding that he would also be among those who “more rejoice dead Russians than alive Ukrainians,” had his grandfather been killed “as a member of the Black Legion (an Ustasha unit in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II) in the Battle of Stalingrad.
On June 6, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said that Minister Vulin “is having trouble interpreting the most significant global and historical events in the 20th century.” The Croatian Ministry stressed that “what we are seeing in Ukraine today is what Serbia, led by the political regime of Slobodan Milosevic, unsuccessfully tried to do” in the early ‘90s with its aggression on Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
“In addition, like many active politicians in Serbia, Minister Vulin was also politically involved in the evil policy of the Slobodan Milosevic regime, which has left behind numerous victims and much destruction across Croatia, BiH and Kosovo,” the Croatian Ministry said in the statement.
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