Thompson's concert in Zagreb was also attended by SDS president Janez Janša and his wife Urška Bačovnik Janša. A photo of the couple was posted on his Facebook profile by Croatian TV presenter Velimir Bujanec. Janša's participation in the concert of a musician who is associated with the Ustasha movement sparked a series of negative reactions.
This is no ordinary concert. And Thompson is no ordinary singer. He is a long-standing symbol of the Croatian far right. At his concerts, everyone is 'ready for home', flags of the Independent State of Croatia, the puppet state of Nazi Germany, and more and more images that should remain in history are flying. And in this mass of people, united by the idea that caused Europe to bleed a good 80 years ago, there is also Janez Janša, in the company of the pro-Ustasha TV presenter Velimir Bujanec (who was photographed wearing a Nazi German uniform years ago), the March 8 Institute warned on Facebook. Of course, politicians know what they are doing. Where they are going. Who they are taking pictures with. Janša did not find himself at this concert by chance. He feels at home in this crowd, among these symbols, in this company. The idea of a xenophobic, supremacist Croatia appeals to him, and he would like to have it at home too. Because he is clearly – ready.
The concentration camp, which was run by the Ustasha regime during the war, was particularly brutal even by the standards of World War II. The Ustasha tortured and slaughtered their victims there, and they even had a special knife for this, the so-called srbosjek. What exactly Ustashaism has to do with patriotism is not clear, especially when we know that the Ustasha ceded Dalmatia to the Italians during the war, the left was harsh about Janša's participation in the concert. In their opinion, this is a disgrace for Slovenia. A visit to Thompson's concert, where the Ustasha salute is shouted in the songs, is another step in a series of relativizing the horrors of World War II and the completely anti-state and, in fact, unpatriotic stance of the Slovenian far right, led by Janez Janša.
