Talk:Croatian Home Guard

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[edit] Reference to Croatian Legion

The Croat legion has nothing to do with the home gaurd or Ustasha militia - they are an elite standalone unit specifically recruited for the Eastern front. Have thus removed reference to it. Also, unaware of any home gaurd being used in Serbia, they were specifically used in local areas. iruka 13:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Yugoslavia

This article was clearly written by a non croat, serb sympathiser. it continually refers to Croatia as Yugoslavia, when in fact during WW2, Croatia was not under Yugoslav rule. Also it does not mention any battles tha may have been fought, just negatives —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.159.2.32 (talk) 23:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reference to Chetniks

The equating of rehabilitating the chetniks to that of the home gaurd is flawed on a number or accounts and provides a false equivalence. Namely:

• The WW2 chetniks were largely the Serbian version of the Ustasha - a militia that committed war crimes as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign;
• The home guard was a professional army (although poorly motoivated one), that did not take part in the excesses of the regime (largely b/c the regime did not trust them), and were largely an ineffective force devoid of political ideology;
• There was no controversy with granting of pensions to the home gaurd, b/c they are untarnished with war crimes - whereas with the chetniks, they are tarnished by war crimes in both WW2 & the 1990's wars.

Accordingly, have removed offending passage. iruka 13:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)