On November 4, 2025, an article entitled Medojević: Contemporary Croatia built on the foundations of the genocidal NDH, and every state based on hatred cannot survive was published on the pages of the Borba web portal,  in which statements from the official X profile of Nebojša Medojević, president of the Montenegrin opposition party Movement for Change,  which does not participate in the government of Montenegro,  are transmitted.

Although it is a marginal party that won a small number of votes in the 2023 parliamentary elections (1993 votes or 0.66%), the views of party president Medojević on the Republic of Croatia were presented in the context of commenting on the recent incident in Split on November 3, 2025, which we have already written about in part. Therefore, we believe that, despite the limited political influence of the party and Medojevic himself, his claims need to be verified because they spread through the media space and contribute to the creation of a negative perception of Croatia.

 

Figure 1: Screenshot of the cover of the article in question on the pages of the Borba web portal.

In that article, the following claim is disputed: 

Ad. 1. "Modern Croatia was built on the foundations of the genocidal state of the Independent State of Croatia. Any state built on hatred and genocide is doomed to failure. It's only a matter of time"

Ad. 1. The Republic of Croatia is a sovereign and democratic state founded on the fundamental values of freedom, equality, respect for human rights, the rule of law, a democratic multi-party system and all those other values that represent the highest values of the constitutional order of the Republic of Croatia. The key source bases of the Republic of Croatia can be found in the basic document, i.e. the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia:

Therefore, from the aforementioned text of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, it is clear that the Republic of Croatia has deep historical roots that are based on the thousand-year-old state autonomy of the Croatian people. The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia clearly and unambiguously states the continuity of Croatian statehood. The historical and state-building continuity of Croatia was confirmed in the decisions of the National Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Croatia (ZAVNOH) in 1943, in the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia from 1990 and in the "victory of the Croatian people and Croatian defenders in the just, legitimate, defensive and liberating Homeland War (1991 - 1995). by which the Croatian people expressed their determination and readiness for the establishment and preservation of the Republic of Croatia as an independent and independent, sovereign and democratic state." Consequently, the claim that modern Croatia was founded on the hatred and genocidal foundations of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) is not true and is a historically unfounded accusation.

The claim that modern Croatia was founded on the hatred and genocidal foundations of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) stems from a long-term and systematic series of disinformation that, since the 1990s, has been constantly used to discredit and demonize the Republic of Croatia through the deliberate linking of the modern Croatian state with the Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia, despite clear historical facts that completely deny these claims. One in a series of examples of the methodology of disinformation campaigns and linking Croatia with the Ustasha regime can be found in the article Radenko Radojčić: Statement, which conveys his statement as an established collaborator of the Yugoslav secret services and the creator of numerous untruths placed in the Croatian and foreign public information space during and after the Homeland War.. The statement in question mentions, among other things, the explosion of a mine device near the Jewish Community in Zagreb in 1991, which, according to Radojčić's testimony, was part of an intelligence operation that tried to falsely link Croatia to the Ustasha, anti-Semitism and the legacy of the Independent State of Croatia in front of the international community.  Therefore, the above statement is malicious and inaccurate and leads readers to wrong conclusions.