
My open letter to FIFA and CAS regarding Simunic case „In the Independent State of Croatia there exists only one greeting: For the Homeland — Ready!“
Yesterday, I read in the Croatian press that Simunic’s lawyer managed to “prove“ to you that „For the Homeland, ready!“ was not a fascists greeting. The attorney was right: the Italian fascist greetings would have been “Viva il Duce!” (Long live the Leader). Simunic had given the Ustasha salute. (http://www.croatiaweek.com/simunic-in-brazil-fifa-give-up-proving-za-dom-spremni-is-fascist-salute/) The greeting used by Simunic was the only official greeting of the Independent State of Croatia (“NDH”), which was devoted to finalizing a triple genocide during WWII. indeed, between 1941 and 1945, the NDH succeeded in exterminating several hundred thousands Serbs, Jews and Roma people. Every order to arrest innocent people and deport them to death camps (that oddly were more











