Zagreb - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković says in his message on the occasion of Croatia's Antifascist Struggle Day, observed on Saturday, that all who have given their lives for Croatia deserve permanent gratitude.
Wishing all the best on the occasion of this holiday, commemorated on 22 June, Jandroković says in his note that the establishment of the First Sisak Partisan Detachment in Brezovica Forest, ushered in organised and resolute resistance of Croatia to Fascism and Nazism during the Second World War.
"Croatia's anti-Fascism played an extremely significant role in efforts that led to Europe's victory against those gloomy ideologies which perpetrated horrendous atrocities."
The values of this anti-Fascism are part of the tenets of our Constitution and the 2005 parliamentary declaration on anti-Fascism, thus being an unavoidable part of the present-day Croatia's political identity, Jandroković wrote in his message, released on Saturday.
Leaving the totalitarian Communist regime (in the early 1990s), Croatia opted for being a part the European Union, a community that bequeath and promotes the values of peace, freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law, he added.
Being aware of our unequivocally opposition to totalitarian systems and our victory in the (1992-1995) Homeland War which enabled us to live in a country of such values, we feel permanent gratitude to all who have given their lives for Croatia in the whole history, Jandroković wrote in his message.