Ustaše

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The Ustaše (pronounced [ûstaʃe]; anglicised as Ustasha or Ustashe) was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945. It was formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret). From its inception and before the Second World War, the organization engaged in a series of terrorist activities against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It collaborated with IMRO to assassinate King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in 1934. During World War II in Yugoslavia, the Ustaše went on to perpetrate the Holocaust and genocide against its Jewish, Serb and Roma populations, killing hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma, as well as Muslim and Croat political dissidents. The ideology of the movement combined aspects of Clerical fascism (particularly derived from Roman Catholicism) and Croatian ultranationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia. The movement advocated a racially...

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