Croatophobia (Croatian kroatofobija or hrvatofobija) means a sentiment of hostility, hatred and aversion towards Croats, Croatia or Croatian culture, or it's minorisation or demonisation. The term is used in a non-clinical sense, and is non-existent in the English language. Croatophobia is deeply rooted in some variants of Serbian national ideology, as a result of historical events and ideas behind Greater Serbia.

History

The term croatophobia (kroatofobija) which appeared in the Croatian daily newspaper Vjesnik [897] first in an article in 1999, but in a later article published on June 18 2005, caught attention of the BBC Media monitor which later translated and commented on this article on June 21 2005. The article was critial of the British resistance of acepting Croatia into the EU. The term croatophobia even though not a widely used term, it is a better descriptor of the fear and hatred that exists rather than the term Anti-Croatian sentiment.

Examples of Alleged Croatophobia

According to those who use the term, Croatophobia can range from individual hatred to institutionalised persecution. Examples of alleged Croatophobia are:

the current Croatian state is a successor of the WWII Nazi Croatian puppet state of NDH

the attrocties commited by the Ustasha regime were hyper inhuman

Croats are right-wing ultra nationalists, exclusive, full of hate against non-Croats

Croats have Ustasha qualities, anything Croatian could be replaced by the Ustasha prefix ie. ustasha house, ustasha child...

Croats have a unsettling thirst for killing people

Croatians maintain a strong agression/genocidal instinct, with claims that genocide as part of their DNA makeup because of the death camps maintained by the Croatian Ustasha regime, and the history of violence and murders perpetrated by the Croats

Croats are untrustworthy, violent, manevolent traitors, a subversive element in society

Croats bask in the nazi ideology i.e. Nazi-Slavs

Blind followers of center-right German goverments and policies, as they were on the "wrong side" of WWI and WWII

Croats are bombers/terrorists

Using fictional accounts as fact (ie. Ante Pavelić maintained a basket or jar containing human eyeballs at his desk side, that were gouged out of Serbian women, that Croatian soldiers during the War of Independence fashioned rosaries made from fingers cut from small children)

That the Catholic Church supports and is part of the Croatian nazi ambition, and many Croats are also called by the term clerofascists

The first irrational fear or Croats was recorded during the 30-year War, when German Protestant chrurches had a prayer: "God save us from hunger, Croats and plague!", and according to history is was a common prayer of that era. This prayer was created after the attrocties commited by Croatian troops as part of the Habsburg army.

With the development of Serbian nationalism, Croatophobia gained momentum in Serbian nationalist political circles. These ideas were also extended by the influential Serbian historian, academician Vasilije Krestić, the foremost Serbian authority on Croatian-Serbian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. In his book "Genocidom do velike Hrvatske" (Greater Croatia through genocide) he paints a picture of Croatians as pathological haters of Serbs, always jealous of their achievements, ready to wipe out the Serbian population out of existence at every opportune moment. Vasilije Krestić aslo states that the genocide of the Serbian people was carefuly prepared by the Croatians for six centuries.

Croatophobia was extensively used by the Serbian government controlled media and nationalist politicians in Yugoslavia, and it was extensively used before and during the Croato-Serbian armed conflit in the 1990's.

Examples

Examples of denial of Croatian history and language (in serbian)

Vasilije Krestić: Through genocide to a greater Croatia

[898] Read the commentaries after the article started by user bigel: I have no idea why Croatia isn't yet in the EU. They certainly qualify -- they can be psychotic, genocidal, Nazi Jewkillers with the best of them -- and proved it in WW2. While I'm not a big fan of the Serbs either, I would not have been upset if they had conquered Zagreb back in '91 and leveled the city..... and continued

Ustashas are marching again!

TODAY'S CROATIA IS A CARBON COPY OF ITS NAZI PREDECESSOR

Radical Double Blackmail

Emperor's Clothes Articles on Yugoslavia In 1991 the Croatian secessionists set up a state modeled on the Croatian Ustashi state during World War II. What were those World War II Ustashi like?

Worst Monsters according to the article the Croatian nazis outdid their German nazi conterparts and the Italian fascists

References

Commentary faults UK policy of discouraging rapid Croatian accession to EU