From the perspective of young nationalist artists, poets, and novelists struggling to be published in cultural journals; radical students battling against an oppressive Yugoslav state; Catholic intellectuals watching with dismay as their nation collapsed into the mire of secularism and degeneracy; and workers’ unions and syndicates battling against the inequity of the “Jewish” capitalist system, the Ustasha regime could look very different. The tenth of April 1941 represented liberation not just from the “prison” of Yugoslavia in which the Croatian nation had been incarcerated, but from its liberal democratic capitalist ideals too. National revolution would be joined by cultural revolution.

R. Yeomans, Visions of Annihilation