Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic might be everyone’s favourite world leader right now, but there was time when she was accused of supporting Nazis in March 2018. It’s not the first time. On July 2016, Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was pictured posing for a photo during her Canada trip, which showed a symbol of her country’s wartime pro-Nazi regime.  

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He office had shrugged off the incident, stating there was nothing questionable about it.

She was accused off posing with a flag bearing the coat of arms used by Ustasha regime during World War II. The same regime persecuted and killed thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and anti-fascists.

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Meanwhile, in March 2018, during a visit to Buenos Aires, she had said ‘after WWII many Croatians sought and found indeed in Argentina the space of freedom where they were able to prove their patriotism’.

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Her phrase was condemned by anti-Nazi groups for praising country’s immigrants to Argentina which included many officials of World War II pro-Nazi regime.

Critics said her remarks, ‘constitute a blanket whitewash of some of the worst criminals of WWII’.

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Croatian immigrants to Argentina included Ustasha leader Ante pavelic, secret police chief Eugen Dido Kvaternik and commander of their most notorious camp Dinko Sakic. Sakic was extradited from Argentina to Croatia in 1998 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He died in prison in 2006.

7 facts you should know about her

1) She was born April 29, 1968 in Rijeka, Croatia to Dubravka and Branko Grabar.

2) She is Croatia’s youngster president and also its first female president.

3) She is a rockstar academician as well, with a master’s degree in International Relations from Faculty of Political Science at University of Zagreb. She spent a semester in the US after entering a student exchange program and graduated from Los Alamos High School in 1986.

4) She is also a Fulbright Scholar receiving the Luksic Fellowship for Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkings University.

5) She speaks English, Spanish, Croatian, and Portuguese, and also understands Italian, French and German.

6) She is married to former Presidential candidate Jakov Kitarovic since 1996 and has two children.

7) She is a practising Roman Catholic but still supports LGBT rights and is pro-abortion. She signed the Paris agreement in 2016. However, she opposed same-sex marriage.