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The slogan Srbe na vrbe! (Serbian: Србе на врбе), meaning Hang Serbs from the willow trees! is hate speech calling for the extermination of Serbs. The slogan was first used by the Slovenian Marko Natlačen in 1914, at the beginning of the war of Austria-Hungary against Serbia, .^[1]

It was popularized before WWII by Mile Budak, the chief architect of the Ustaše ideology against Serbs. In present-day Croatia, Croatian neo-Nazis, extreme nationalists and people who oppose return of Serbian refugees often use the slogan. Graffiti with the phrase is common, and has appeared in 2004 and 2006.^[2][3][4]

There is a similar slogan in the hate speech of the Ukrainian nationalists towards Russians which sounds as "москаляку на гiлляку" ("moskalyaku na gillyaku") and means "[hang] the Muscovite on the bough".

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