MP Damir Kajin said antifascism was one of the greatest values of Istria. He urged the incumbent government to step down as soon as possible, accusing it of ruining the state, destroying it economically and returning it to where it was in 1999.

"It's sad that this government cares about transcripts and who delivered them to the Hague tribunal, while at the same time not caring about who set fire to 22,000 buildings and executed 677 innocent elderly people after (1995's) Operation Storm or who plundered Croatia," Kajin said, adding that Croatia was not destroyed by the Hague tribunal, but by the ruling HDZ party.

Former President Stjepan Mesic recalled that he attended the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany last week, saying Germany had gone through a phase similar to the one in Croatia today, when corrupt people held many key positions and when there was a wish to let crimes and criminals be forgotten.

Mesic said Croatia should not and must not be ashamed of its antifascist struggle, but should be proud of it. He reiterated that Nazism and fascism had been crimes both as ideas and in their implementation, while antifascism had been pure, although it had not been immune to crime either. "That's the truth and this truth does not diminish the greatness of the antifascist struggle."

The Prostina Rebellion, which saw farmers from Prostina rebel against fascist terror, began in early February 1921 and was crushed two months later.