Christmas Stars: We Do Not Celebrate Communism in Croatia 

Paul, you have chosen the worst thing to play dumb about.

So tell me Paul ..If one of the Christmas decorations look like swastika would it also be weird to remove it ?

Like the star on Heineken or Lone Star Beer...the star on Xmas decoration has no connection with communism...end of story.

Communism back in the late 1940s and the early 1950s was horrible here, no wonder the people have traumas with symbols that remotely remind them of it.

dragi Paul, baš si našao prjatelja i portal kojem ćeš slati takve vijesti. 🤦‍♂

Index aka the worst news page in Croatia

the local government in small communities has learned long ago that it is necessary to implement the will of the big ones /since the time of Venice, Austria, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia../ The mayors and officials were great Italians, germanophiles, royalists, communists, and today they are great Croats and Catholicks. This leaves a lot of room for the ordinary people to have fun at their expense

It's not the humor that gets me, it's the delivery of it. Haven't laughed so much this week.

You have a pleasant voice and your British accent sounds so good to my Finnish ears.

Babić is a hard line bolshevik

If you had as much shite as we had with this star in Yuga , you would understand . The fact that you just see a star and we feel pain in our hearts , should be enough for you to stay out of it ! Playing dumb in this situation is revolting. Whatever you may think of us , we know the difference between twinkle twinkle little star and this one .

in my workplace during my younger years I was referred to as the 'crazy croat' now I understand why! My place of work was in the centre of manchester, close to umist which I imagine you know Paul cheers

As a classicist, I would like to explain what the significance of the star is, and why the communists adopted it and why the Catholics hate it. The star, the so-called pentagram, the five tip star, is the symbol of the planet Venus. Venus was also called Aphrodite, Ishtar, Asherah, Astarte, Astaroth, Isis, Zarathustra. The "morning star" and the "evening star." "I am the morning and the evening star, I am the rising and the setting star, I am upper and I am lower Egypt, I am Pharaoh." Venus is the brightest object in the sky except for the sun and the moon, in certain times of the year, much brighter than the Sirius star. The ancient people of course did not know the difference between the planets and the stars. The word planet comes from the Greek planetai which means " wondering star." So religion including Christianity is in reality and adaptation of what we call astral theology, the belief that the planets and the stars are in some way divine. This is what we call "esoteric" knowledge, or knowledge that is hidden, with the story the people are told is a personification or anthropomorphization. So Moses sees the burning bush, the burning bush being of course the milky way galaxy which appears on certain nights like a bush on fire. If you believe that the earth is still, and not moving, and that the planets and the stars including the sun and the moon actually orbit around the Earth, rather than the other way around, as we know today, because you are under the false impression that the earth is at the center of the universe as the ancients believed, and you note the location of Venus in relation to the earth around different nights, Venus, in relation to the earth, rotates in a pattern that forms a pentagram. It revolves around the Earth from our perspective in the precise geometric pattern of a five tip star. In fact, because of this rotation, many of the things on the earth have the five star pattern because we evolved with this particular influence of the planet which obviously has an influence on everything that lives. If you cut an apple horizontally and you look at the core you will notice a star. This is something called "sacred geometry", and you can google it simply by putting in sacred geometry of Venus and see for yourself. The communists knew this of course. Imagine you discover that all of the religious oppression, the brainwashing, the abuse of other ethnic groups for being a slightly different kind of Christian, or the barbarity of the invading armies of the caliphate for their version of yet another personified religion of star worship, if you were that communist, would you not be angry? Would you not believe that the chuch is a vile institution that has lied to the people? Because of this reality, the church began to associate the star with Lucifer or Satan, since of course Venus is that star, lux+ferro, "the light bringer" since it often appears in the morning before the sun. In other words, in order to disguise further anyone from looking into the importance of the symbolism lest they discover the truth, the church vilified that symbol as a symbol of the devil. Which made it a perfect symbol for the communists to appropriate with the hope that it serves as a symbol of their desire to liberate humanity from the oppression of magic and lies and psychological manipulation. While the communist project may be an abysmal failure, I stand in solidarity with the Croatian partisans, all the anti-fascists, and Death to Fascism, Freedom to the People!

Yea, Croats really don't like Communism 😄

Dear Paul, I understand that you as not native,don't know and can't understand what did Croats survived under comunism and "star",you probably are not aware that because British Crown, Croatian refugies where turned back to communist wearing star on their uniform, which since May 1945 till the end of 1951 killed 460.000 Croats. Matika Babić,your friend is known to be colaborator of Serbian Inteligence, known as someone who hate free Croatia and important part of Soroš sponsored media. I'm sorry you stuck in this situation,but Croats remember. Everything. No decent Croatian patriot will ever alow him self to be in 5 meters from Matija Babić and neocommunist like him.

Uuuu.. ipak si mi sada malo manje drag!😢 Matija Babic je državni neprijatelj no1 koji je javno priznao Soroševu financijsku potporu pri osnivanju indexa!

Awesome story, narrated perfectly! Visiting in May and looking forward to the next video! Amazing bookshelf, btw.

Kako bi rekao Mao Ce Tung 😅 " everybody sees what they want to see " In Communist Yougoslavia people were not allowed to believe in God , go to church or celebrate Christmas especially if they were teachers or similar leading possitions . Tito wanted to be God 😅 and for some people he was .

Hats off for being yourself!

Kao i u seriji "Naše malo misto" Miiljenka Smoje, to je oduvijek tako. 😂

Well , is not always 5 pointed star . Subtle point ! Only native Croats can understand. Croatian sense of humor is , remove all communist simbols . We piss ourselves of laughter while we do it ! In the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, a silver star with 14 undulating rays marks the location traditionally claimed to be that of Jesus' birth. In European textiles a common 8 -pointed star design is known as the Holy Star of Bethlehem.

Divided people on every issue important and foolish . Paying tributes and worshipping symbols instead of working on solving real problems is of no benefit..however it represents our present political ,religious and educational systems ... Divided we fall.

that's because Matija Babić is ex-yu lover

Croatia liberated itself in 1941 against royalist Serb Yugoslavia who throughout the 20 past years has forbidden our culture, our music, our checkered flags, our glorious history while inventing one that served their purposes, killed our president in 1928, neutralized our political freedom and voice, repressed us violently and killed many of our folks, etc... Than some German with a weird moustache offered us weapons and tanks to revolt, and as former warriors of central powers we gladly accepted.

Kinda none of my business, but Paul, you might want to get your fasting insulin checked... 😊

My friends fat my friends father in law won’t drink Heineken because of the communist star !

Ako ti je prijatelj m.b. jano je kpji su tvoji stavovi. Zašto ne probaš u UK propagirati rusiju i komunističku ikonografiju?

Very funny video.

You like opening pandora's box, don't you Paul! 😂 just keep in mind that you can't close it.. The Balkans are a weird place, beautiful and ugly at the same time, that's why some things are better to be left alone for sure.

Dear Paul, if you are reading the comments here...don't go for these first white field coat of arms and suspicious "patria" nickname comments. Croatia prospered greatly in the Jugoslavia. It wasnt even communism, it was socialism. As with most things, it had some good and bad stuff which normal people realise.

Sir Paul, Thank you for everything ,you have done for my Homeland! One day wi will meet It's my wissh!

Looking at the comments reminds me of “what have the Romans ever done for us?” sketch (with the usual triggered fascists/neo z). Funny stuff.

Also, do not use the word partisan, it has other connotations in Croatia.

Nice move, Paul. Going against what we stand for and against Croatian nationalism won't win you any favors here, Croats can't pull it off, why should you? In my eyes you have become persona non grata.

Crazy right wingers

Communism in Yugoslavia almost succeeded, and many people here in Croatia celebrate those years

As a person who lives in Croatia, we love Tito and we look at him like a hero because he has liberated us from both nazis and fascists. Tito is the only one who could have held Communist/Socialist Yugoslavia together and stable. Of course, some people don't like communism, but mostly we like it. Majority of people don't even know the valutes of communism and think of it as just one of these brutal totalitarian regimes.