The concert of the Montenegrin choir was cancelled. We can: We are appalled by the intolerance of defenders

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IN KORČULA, the 80th anniversary of the city's liberation from the fascists is being celebrated on Saturday, and veterans' associations have announced a protest over a concert in the Summer Cinema.
The organizer of the event, the Association of Anti-Fascists of the City of Korčula, invited the Montenegrin amateur choir KIC Pop Choir to the celebration. This bothered the Association of Croatian Volunteers of the Homeland War (UHDDR), which sent an open letter demanding the members of the choir to cancel their performance.
The We Can party sent a reaction to the pressures of the veterans' associations, and we are transcribing it in its entirety:
"We are appalled by bigotry"
"We are appalled by the expressed intolerance, pressures and open letters of the veterans' associations from Korčula, which culminated yesterday in the postponement of the performance of the amateur Montenegrin choir on commemorating a day we should all be proud of, the Day of the Liberation of Korčula from Fascism. The pressures brought the obviously desired result, but the which takes us back 30 years.
As a reminder, UHDDR Korčula and UHVDR Čara have long since reacted against the performance of the choir "KIC Pop Choir" from Montenegro at the upcoming Saturday celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Korčula, first sending an open letter in which they state, among other things, that they strongly oppose their performance in Korčula "since they come from a country that joined the Serbian aggression against Croatia in 1991", and "whose initials glorify Yugoslav unitarism".
"The concert, burdened with additional pressures, was cancelled"
At the same time, they announced a protest rally at the event and asked the choir to cancel the performance, considering that a choir from Croatia must perform.
Two days ago, the situation culminated when, during the formal registration of the public gathering, the MUP asked the organizer, - an application for work. "KIC pop choir" is an amateur and unpaid choir, and in the past, Korčula, just like many other cities in Croatia, has on numerous occasions hosted numerous amateur groups from other countries of the region and the world, for whose performances applications for work were not required or required.
It is clear that the application for work cannot be presented in such a short period of time, so the concert, burdened with additional pressures, was cancelled.
"The sad result is the peak of the intolerance of certain groups"
This sad result is the culmination of the intolerance of certain groups that continuously return us to decades-old conflicts, but also the strengthening of extreme right-wing tendencies, which do not like it any other way, and at the same time do not respect their own anti-fascist past.
The liberation of Korčula from the German Nazi occupation in the Second World War was one of the most important and turning events for our city and island, which won the freedom and territorial belonging of Korčula in Croatia. Our island partisans fought and died for this freedom, as well as for Korcula to be open and hospitable. The defenders of the Homeland War also fought for this same freedom.
Today, eighty years after the liberation of Korčula and almost 30 years after the victory in the Homeland War, Korčula is an open, hospitable and touristic town.
"It is terrifying and unacceptable"
Such messages, that the singing choir from Montenegro is not welcome in Korčula, send the message that neither the workers from Montenegro nor the guests are welcome. It is terrifying and unacceptable that in democratic Croatia these kinds of antagonisms and pressures are carried out on the basis of another citizenship, and it is even worse and more dangerous when such pressures and antagonisms bear fruit.
The main actors of inciting discord and hatred are certainly not amateur choirs from Montenegro."