I am asking this sub since I couldn’t find anything on google nor do I know much about the Croatian culture and politics.
I am currently in Croatia and I see a lot of male teenagers wearing the German NeoNazi brand “Thor Steinar” hoodie, not shirts or anything except the pictured hoodie. Do they actually know what they are wearing and consider themselves right wing extremists or are they just plain ignorant of the meaning?
I am asking this sub since I couldn’t find anything on google nor do I know much about the Croatian culture and politics

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  5. Looks hi-quality, but they skimped out on those rope endings (should be encapsulated). Therefore, I would skip this one

    I know a guy buying those, he thinks he’s badass for wearing proto-nazi swag. He’s an idiot, tho.

  6. Usually wearing these is connected with being affiliated with soccer fans, which are usually right leaning, or have entire far-right divisions. Ofc some of the guys wearing them are just there because of the trend set up by these guys. Also a lot of shops that have these kinds of clothing were run by people affliated by the aformentioned.

    So yeah the trend of wearing these was usually propagated by older right wing men, but usually in younger kids it mostly has little political connotations and they are wearing it to appear cool.

    I am speaking from experience hanging out with a lot of that kind of people that wear these on everyday basis and hanging out for some time with genuine skinheads and neonazis.

  8. Maybe the far-left, or whatever other extremist shit you support, should make cooler outfits then. Because let’s be real here, you don’t really care about the “extremist” part do you? You just care about the “right” part.

    I’d wear it and I vote left (even far-left, green, etc. in some cases). Simply looks good and after all it’s a piece of clothing.

    Take your shitty America social politics back to America.

  9. Very popular in ultras (football fans) culture here, not just the hoodie but the whole brand in general is quite popular. I have a couple vintage shirts and some cargo pants from them too and I like them very much. Thor Steinar has very “masculine” designs which makes it very popular among people who try to appear as such. The brand gained popularity after a member of Torcida got onto the pitch with a bat wearing the exact hoodie in the picture so I guess younger people saw the brand and thought it was cool.

  11. ” I am asking this sub since I couldn’t find anything on google nor do I know much about the Croatian culture and politics ” – so you are quite ignorant?

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    Probably people dont know who the maker is, looks like an average hoodie.

  14. I would say that most people who wear Thor Steinar don’t exactly know why the brand is popular among neonazis and hard right wingers, but they wear it because all their other fuckhead friends wear it.

    But yeah, a lot of teenagers in Croatia are right wingers and borderline neonazis.

    And some of them know exactly why they wear this shit.

  15. Dubai based company…probably 90% of people dont know this fact. Btw. I have cca 10 hoodies and have no admiration for neonazis/ultras… Just cool looking hoodies

  17. Not everyone who wears TS apparel is neonazi nor the brand is neonazi. Stubborn branding and marketing idiots? Yes.
    But no, most people/kids who wear it in Croatia do not wear it because of political beliefs. I know more nazis that wear Adidas exclusively than this lol

  19. Yes, I would say that anyone who wears this has a faint idea what it stands for. Most are adolescents who want to look tough, but some are outright nazis.

  21. I would say they are not so ignorant of the meaning, but this is mainstream enough so that you look “normal” but then again it is very obvious to the people you want to attract and hang out with. Like if you were to dress in obvious SS uniform, that would attract much negative attention, but this, this is vanila Nazi. I know that many people will say, nah no way this is something deliberate, but I wouldn’t be so sure.

  22. Kids in Croatia also wear NASA and various rock band shirts, without any knowledge (or very little) of what NASA is, and/or what type of music that particular band plays. They either like the design, or they try to copy their peers. As others have said, Steinar is popular among football fans here.

  27. I would say min. 70-80% approx. know what they are buying and as i know its not cheap, so definitely if you are buying it you have some knowledge what or who stays behind the brand.

  32. I think they’re well aware that they’re wearing a piece of apparel. I also think that you’re not aware of the fact that a piece of apparel does not have a political agenda and that you’re being ridiculous. By that logic, you have a lot of boycotting to do. Here’s a list of a few well known brands that had ties with the Nazis:
    Adidas, Puma, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Hugo Boss, Porsche, Daimler, Kodak, Bosch (despite them painting themselves as a resistance now, they employed slaves and reaped rewards from that regime) just to name a few. Oh and there’s also this:
    [https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/7/](https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/7/)

    and this:
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust)

    Good luck. It seems like you’re the type of person that’s constantly bored and bothered by some irrelevant bullshit anyway.

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