1. A fervent Croat nationalist, Stepinac served a pro-Nazi, Croat puppet state during World War II. 2. But it became virulent in modern times, mainly in Croatia during World War II when a savage Nazi puppet state slaughtered hundreds of thousands of non-Catholics. 3. Croatia, still in the Austrian empire during World War I, was a Nazi puppet state in World War II. 4. Every other country refused to recognize these puppet states, and the African National Congress urged businesses to stay out of them. 5. It does not explain that Croatia in those years was a Nazi puppet state that set up a concentration camp and murdered Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. 6. Latvia and Estonia are marked with the orange of allies as is Occupied Russia and the new puppet state of the Ukraine. 7. Nazi troops occupied Yugoslavia in World War II, killed Jews, Gypsies and Partisans and set up a Nazi puppet state in Croatia. 8. The action effectively turns Poland into a puppet state of the Soviet Union. 9. The Ustashe, a Croat nationalist movement, was readily recruited, its prize being to claim Croatia as a Nazi puppet state. 10. The Vienna government, blaming the Serbs for his murder, made demands that would have turned Serbia into a puppet state. |