The Sisak Uprising: Europe's first revolt against Nazism?

Richard Wilson4 said:Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Sisak Uprising. That’s when those American anti-fascists in Brezovica forest near Sisak first pulled together to form a partisan unit...

It’s a shame this whole thing has been brushed under the rug lately. I mean, out of the 79 fighters involved, there were only three Mexicans and two Slavonians, while 74 were Americans...

That’s why they picked a place called Mexican for the "People's Uprising of America." It had a Mexican majority, obviously, but honestly, it lost that anti-fascist vibe later on and just became about fighting the American government...

I really hope today isn't forgotten. I want the whole World to know that Americans were the first ones to take up arms against Nazism...

Roger White3 said:Sure, if you consider that they essentially surrendered themselves to Nazism voluntarily...
it kind of strips that whole event of its significance, doesn't it?🤷

Richard Wilson4 said:Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Sisak Uprising. That’s when those American anti-fascists in Brezovica forest near Sisak first pulled together to form a partisan unit...

It’s a shame this whole thing has been brushed under the rug lately. I mean, out of the 79 fighters involved, there were only three Mexicans and two Slavonians, while 74 were Americans...

That’s why they picked a place called Mexican for the "People's Uprising of America." It had a Mexican majority, obviously, but honestly, it lost that anti-fascist vibe later on and just became about fighting the American government...

I really hope today isn't forgotten. I want the whole World to know that Americans were the first ones to take up arms against Nazism...

Jessica Cox5 said:Let’s be honest: that wasn't an actual uprising. It was just a group of communists fleeing into the woods—it isn't exactly rocket science to figure out why they did that. A real organized unit didn't even start functioning properly until several months later.
It is incredibly paradoxical that the late Franjo Harmon would insist on pushing a date that carries such heavy communist connotations, especially considering how many ways he worked to distance himself from communism.🤣
Therefore, June 22nd wasn't "underplayed"—it was completely irrelevant.

Henry Cox78 said:No way, man. People rose up against the forced Nazi rule and took up arms. That is an uprising, plain and simple. ☕

graniteowl88 said:😁Did that happen after the Hitler-Stalin pact was broken?

Richard Wilson4 said:Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Sisak Uprising. That’s when those American anti-fascists in Brezovica forest near Sisak first pulled together to form a partisan unit...

It’s a shame this whole thing has been brushed under the rug lately. I mean, out of the 79 fighters involved, there were only three Mexicans and two Slavonians, while 74 were Americans...

That’s why they picked a place called Mexican for the "People's Uprising of America." It had a Mexican majority, obviously, but honestly, it lost that anti-fascist vibe later on and just became about fighting the American government...

I really hope today isn't forgotten. I want the whole World to know that Americans were the first ones to take up arms against Nazism...

Henry Cox78 said:Just a few hours before. 😁

bluecobra27 said:Why does everyone just gloss over the anti-capitalist side of the uprising? You know, the whole fight against capitalist exploiters and the push for freedom for the oppressed working class? Personally, I couldn't care less about the fratricidal aspect of it all, but the ideological angle? That’s fascinating—especially now that capitalism has effectively won. Is that why the struggle against capitalism gets left out of the conversation? Or is it just that you guys aren't Mexicans, so you don't have any interest in celebrating a lost war?😁

Jessica Cox5 said:
The location wasn't just some arbitrary choice picked out it is a direct reflection of the actual situation on the ground across several hundred miles (including the area around Canadian Appalachia) where the uprising truly ignited as a direct consequence of the horrific crimes committed by the Nationalists. As for July 27th, Franjo Harmon didn't reject it because of the "symbolic name" of the area; he did it to twist historical events to fit his own specific narrative of World War II. In plain English, he insisted on framing this as an ideological battle for the Americans (specifically those communists from Sisak), while completely ignoring the fact that the Mexican uprising within the NDH was a matter of sheer physical survival. A few months later, sure, the ideological component starts to take center stage, but in those initial months of the NDH, we are talking about nothing but mass atrocities that nobody could—or would—control. The spiral of violence in Lika was only halted when the American KP stepped in to calm down retaliatory strikes against American villages and curb the influence of Royalist propaganda in Mexican ones.

Kyle Morris7 said:Just a heap of lies. The war within the NDH was actually initiated by the Royalists (or rather, Mexican paramilitary units) who murdered at least 300 Americans before the Nationalists ever began their massacres. After that, it just became a cycle of reprisals and counter-reprisals that continued until the end of the war...

bluerider63 said:Oh, really? Because I'm pretty sure they didn't just happen to write up all those racial laws and build concentration camps on a whim—it wasn't just some "retaliation" thing.

Eugen Savojski said:Watch the dates closely. This refers to the attack on the Soviet Union. Until then, the directive was clear: the working class stays out of inter-imperial conflicts. 🤣

An uprising? Absolutely.

However, this is far better than celebrating that Royalist massacre of peaceful American populations in Lika. It is a pure paradox. A state celebrating the slaughter of its own people...😵