Today 10 February in Italy it is a day to remember the Foibe massacres committed by Yugoslav partisans to innocent citizens, whose only fault was being Italian.

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  1. Wow, for absolutely no reason whatsoever those crazed yugoslavs all of a sudden one day started killing poor Italians who did nothing wrong whatsoever…

  2. The Italian historian, Raoul Pupo estimates 3,000 to 4,000 total victims, across all areas of former Yugoslavia and Italy from 1943 to 1945,[8] with the primary target being military and repressive forces of the Fascist regime, and civilians associated with the regime, including Slavic collaborators

    For your reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foibe_massacres

  5. However much people Yugoslav partisans killed was not enough, they assimilated Ustaše and Četniks which is why, even today, there is so much hatred on all sides. Parents bring their children up under the symbols and ideologies of Pavelić and Draža. Not to mention the rise of muslim extremists in Bosnia, where people go to Al Quaida to be trained by them.

  6. Sorry mate, but that’s just objectively misinformation. The partisans murdered specifically selected individuals who supported or collaborated with the Mussolini. There were over a million Italians in Friuli and Istria. If the partisans wanted to commit a genocide, why did they stop at 5000?

    Those Italians who had no connection to the regime were given an option to pack up and leave, and that’s a damn generous option considering they had opressed and murdered the Slovene and Croatian minority for 20 years and then also invaded Yugoslavia and killed 10% of Slovene population alone.

    The foibe killings were a revange for the genocide of Slovenes and targeted those responsible for it and their families (which i condemn). Another important thing to point out is that during the killings some 10 000 Slovene collaborators were killed as well. That’s twice as much people dead as on Italian side. So clearly it wasn’t an ethnically driven massacre, like you try portray. It was a mad revange driven by partisans, many of whom lost everything to the Italian invaders and many of whom lived their entire life under the Mussolini regime.

    And ironically, in retrospect this might have been a sensible thing to do, since after the war, the Italians refused to extradict their war criminals responsible for some 10% of Slovenia being dead.

  7. It would be definitely something to remember, if it wasn’t for the fact that the fascists gloss over the crimes that we did in Yugoslavia and the former territories of Istria and Dalmazia.

    It’s not like Yugoslavs woke up one day and decided to murder innocent civilians out of the blue.

  10. Can’t wait for the “On this day, June 6th 1944, innocent German beachgoers were massacred by the invading Allied troops at Normandy” post

  12. The main current issue is that Croatia in particular (Slovenia a bit less, but as well), are still minimising the happening through their national and in particular through their local politicians (regional and city level). They are minimising the ethnic cleansing of 300k Italians, innocent people, from their ancestral lands through a well though out plan by Tito, Kardelj and Djilas, carried out by the later 2. Apart from the Istria Region that has been doing a bit of work in this regard, places like Fiume-Rijeka, the Croatian islands and Zadar are still in open and politically incomprehensible denial, when not censoring of the topic. Up to a couple of years ago the Fiume-Rijeka administration (SDP party since 1991) had been brutally and actively trying to censor the happenings, the violences, the killings of innocents (even minors), the killing of all the anti-fascists, liberals and democratic leftists in town between May the 2nd 1945 and the consequent months. The illegal (even by Yugoslav law) cancellation and violent destruction of almost all bilingual signs during the 1953-54 Trieste crisis, carried out by the Communist party.

    In the wake of this violence and state-organised terrorism, many places on the Slovenian/Croatian coast lost 90+% of their population in a matter of 4-5 years. The main cities Fiume-Rijeka and Zara lost respectively 87% and 96% of the local population in the few years following the war. In Fiume almost a thousand innocent citizens (out of circa 50 thousands), got summarily killed during the first weeks of occupation (I’m not using the word occupation randomly it is the word used in official documents by Yugoslav authorities between 1945 and 47).

    It is a European disgrace that still nowadays local politicians do not allow the two sides to build understanding and compassion through such censoring and hiding of what is well established by historians and would only need a sincere apology and some symbolic actions to preserve the presence of this millennium-old culture locally (before it disappears in assimilation – and it is quickly disappearing under such policies). They rather play the ultra-nationalist drum, out of ideological reasons. This is not a good thing for Europe, and it’s part of the more extensive Balkan nationalist problem, albeit a less prominent and more historically localised part of it.

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