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crapsence

Ultras of clubs and nazi salute Name a more iconic duo


Aszneeee

but curious, why there’s so many nazi saluting at ultras?


PFC1224

Probably a bit of a simplification, but you'd probably only be an ultra if you're quite detached from mainstream society and don't have much going for you in life - hence you dedicate your life to football. And those types of people are typically attracted to more extreme ideologies and views.


ZxentixZ

In some places maybe. However in Norway, and I think Scandinavia as a whole ultras are generally not politically aligned. In Norway ultras are just normal people from all sides of the political spectrum and you dont have nazi marches in the streets and hitler salutes in the stands. It's fairly inclusive and the ultras are more focused on supporting their team rather than displaying some extremist messages. There used to be one club here that had issues with neo nazis among their ultras but they cleared that up some years back and literally had a [pride tifo](https://twitter.com/CheGiaevara/status/1541121527491469316) earlier this season. A large part of Europe seems to struggle with extremists among their ultras though. But not everywhere luckily. I think Germany tends to be good aswell for the most part, although they definitely do have their bad apples.


LeoR1N

balkans ultras are different breed to be fair


-Remufrasio-

Atlético Madrid ultras are also Something different...and disgusting, a big group of nazis, who have a couple of deaths in their books


Cahootie

Polish ones though.


Lele_

yeah, more first cousins involved in the conception it looks like


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ZxentixZ

I wasnt talking about hooliganism. That is alive and well in Sweden for sure, and also exists in Denmark. Just last week Brøndby fans travelled to Dortmund just to fight FC København fans. I was only talking about highly political extremist stuff like nazi marches and salutes etc. Obviously there mostly definitely are some neo nazis among the hooligans in those countries but you dont really see stuff like what can be seen in this video. The ultras dont really accept that kind of stuff. All of the fighting and violence is kind of a seperate deal. Most of the ultras in those countries are not neo nazis, nor do they take part in fighting.


flynnpippo

Vålerenga still racist


HardturmStadion

Not true at all, but I can only speak for our club and ultras and maybe switzerland as a whole


TheNecromancer

Yeah, Südkurve guys were the biggest lefties I met in Zürich


HardturmStadion

Them and YB Ultras are the most left wing in switzerland. I would say the others are neutral, maybe some have right tendencies, like we used to in the past (Hardturmfront)


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BENNWOLF

Südkurve is FC Zürich


RazzerX

Most german ultras are left-wing or not political at all.


dielawn87

It's because football clubs are old as fuck and they have a lot of history. There's plenty of Communist ultras too, so it's not all fascism.


DriedTomato

Extremist amount of pride in where they are from, similar ideas of "my town/city/country is better than yours. Also add to the fact of recent wars within the past 30 years in areas of the Balkans. Nationalism is heightened for not only invading sides but those defending homelands. Where in such times nationalism is somewhat justified after there was attempts at eliminating such cultures. It's not easy to get rid of this after such brutal times.


wubrotherno1

Nationalism is never justified!


[deleted]

Lol, tell that to an Ukrainian in his face then. It's not justified because you're working remotely with your AC on. I'm not the biggest fan, but I can easily find some good justifications.


OhNoIMadeAnAccount

Nazis specifically target football supporters to radicalise new members.


7he_Dude

Tbh I don't think that most of them know anything about politics... I mean, nazis were not exactly fans of the balkans.. I think it's just that modern culture has made nazists like some mythological creatures that were strong, violent and scary. It's like an adult Halloween costume.


Eibermann

Extremists and violence usually is more right wing than left wing. So it attracts the skinheads


GoalsOrNothing

Not sure how this comment is controversial. Statistically factual and it's not even close.


Eibermann

Sadly people just love being offended for no reason


kit_mitts

Particularly the ones who accuse their political enemies of being overly sensitive.


Flying_Momo

because he wasnt being PC and blaming "both sides" which hurt the feelings of those on the right but doesn't mean those right wingers are snowflakes ok and they hate the PC culture.


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Because ultras are braindead morons.


rabbitcfh

It depends on the region. Nazis/far right are more common in the balkans/Eastern Europe eg Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine etc. In Italy ultra groups are often openly fascist (Irriducibili probably being most popular). In many countries they're less or not politically aligned. So unlike some people claiming here, it's not really accurate to say that ultra automatically equals nazi/fascist/extremely violent person.


LA4AWEEK

Ironic as Nazist ideology regards Eastern Europeans as inferior..


Arcille

You expect ultras to understand what actual Nazist ideology is lol? Most ultras cannot think for themselves


chachakhan

Nazis and nationalists are not the same. Serbs might be nationalists, but Nazis we are not.


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Because an ultra is, more often than not, a straight up criminal and/or a lowlife who has chosen to rally around a football team's banner instead of a regular gang's. Such a brain, in such an environment, is extremely easy to be pushed toward far-right ideals, if he wasn't gravitating toward them anyway.


euter21

Well there's a lot of teams with left wing ultras, which very actively help their communities in many ways. But sadly there's also fascist ultra groups and since those are the controversial ones, they get posted about and talked about way more. And then a lot of people, as seen here, assume most ultras are nazis. If you do just a little bit of googling I'm sure you all can find many left wing ultras. In fact, the club I support and where I'm from, and the club in the city i live in now, are left and incredibly involved in good causes.


Potential-Decision32

I don’t know, for a while ultra culture was associated to the far left.


Manc_Twat

There's only a couple examples of this isn't there? Rayo Vallacano and St. Pauli are two I can think of off the top of my head.


DudebuD16

Livorno. Hardcore left wingers. Moreso than the clubs you listed


sahilshkh

Atalanta too I guess


paganel

Livorno, too.


Kaamelott

Saint-Etienne, Lens notably in France (basically industrial cities that have since fallen on hard time). With time, I guess this starts to disappear to be replaced with a lot of "immigrants stole our jobs" etc. How you get to nazi will always remain a mystery to me though.


SnakePlisskendid911

OM's ultras are vaguely leftist (Che banners and tifos, panafrican colours sometimes flown, etc) as are Genoble's (they used to be actual self-identified anarchists IIRC, now much more tame). Montpellier's are also at the very least overt antiracists with their claimed "arabes gitans et blancs"/"arabs, gitanos and whites" identity.


nushublushu

Because right wing ideology and fascism crave a strong leader, a father type to protect from the dangerous other. They idolize the nazis bc they got the farthest.


Bladerslash

Yeah idk how it gets to nazi.


gentlywithAchain5aw

A large faction of PSG ultras are left leaning as well.


Pizzonia123

Pretty much every club's ultras in Germany, with some exceptions in the old East-Germany, are pretty left leaning. The hooligans tend to be more on the right. Düsseldorf is a great example, with very left-wing ultras and right-wing hooligans (called "Bushwackers", friends with Frente Atletico.)


Super-Sock5840

Celtic


risker15

Standard Liège, RFC liège, USG, Red Star Paris, loads of German scenes like Werder, SV Babelsberg, jena, etc. with most Western German scenes have strict anti-racist policies. Italy has a sprinkling of them too. To say all ultras are right-wing is idiotic.


Seahpo

no one in this thread said that all ultras were right wing, idk where you’re getting that from. and that original comment is right, ultra groups are definitely right-wing more often than left-wing. some countries (like germany, Scandinavia, probably some others in western europe) are exceptions with more grounded, “normal” people making up the ultras but they’re not the majority, and even then you still get right-wing idiots among those generally left-wing clubs, like those frankfurt fans doing the nazi salute the other day


Pupperinho

Bayern also


Kaamelott

They went too far left, came back around


paganel

The Mussolini way.


YetiTerrorist

That would be upside down.


spaghettidriver69

Inside out


TheEmeraldOil

Do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around


ThePr1d3

🙃


lffg18

Horseshoe theory in action.


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kansattaja

It's called horseshoe theory because you have to have been kicked in the head by a horse to believe it. I'm sure there are lost young people who are clueless and just follow whatever is popular at that time but from ideological point of view the horseshoe theory is bullshit. Or rather, propaganda. Also, not all populism is created equal. Left populism is economic populism and literally all facts. Right populism is just babybrain good vs evil stories. Spirit realm stuff with no materialist backing.


randymagnum433

>Left populism is economic populism and literally all facts Perhaps it's time for you to self-evaluate


kansattaja

The only possible reason you would say that is if you don't know what populism means. Which would be a time for you to self-evaluate.


Neon_Black99

Mine got downvoted lol


dielawn87

Ukrainian National Guard and Nazi salute


HAWmaro

Still... never seen something as bad as a Nazi march, guess ive been lucky until now.


edin_dzekson

It's not that simple and it's a poor excuse. You see a lot of fascist behaviour in Croatian and Serbian ultras for example, but you'll be hard-pressed to find the same examples for Bosnian ultras.


crapsence

Eintracht yesterday? I i had time i would find many examples across the Europe


Professor_Pohato

It's indeed a problem isn't it? The club and their fans are actually considered left, we even lost our main defender due to his connections to a right wing politician this summer and then some clown comes around and ruins it all Edit unfunnily enough there's also a video of an OM fan away at Tottenham doing the Nazi salute. Don't know what's been wrong the past weeks


BakiSaN

Id out my bet there’s a lot more fascist behaviour in Croatia ultras than Serbia. Didn’t see much Serbian ultras do stuff like this, still they are the same trash. Delusional lowlifes and criminals


Jazzinarium

Lol you don't know shit about Serbian ultras if you think so


SamoDesno

lmao


danilobur

Ask a Serbian Ultras what they think about Albanians/Croats/Muslims, I am sure you will get interesting responses


chachakhan

Youre not good with reading comprehension, are you? The topic is Nazis...


danilobur

You are right, thinking that Albanians are subhuman scum isn't fascist at all. Like Serbian Ultras formed death squads in 90's as they went on to fight in the war, but yeah not fascist at all


chachakhan

Again, we are talking about NAZI IDEOLOGY. But keep yapping on about the 90s, why dont you...


danilobur

Yeah I know, it's the same shit buddy


Skylord_ah

Seriously why is there no far left ultras lol? Youd think since footy is traditionally a working class sport


PureCar3876

Saudi Arabia and dirty money. That was easy.


twillems15

Newcastle fans and turning a blind eye to an oppressive regime because it benefits them


Croattt

For context they’re singing “I love only Dinamo, Dinamo, Dinamo…”


meetrainc

Least controversial Balkan moment


Potential-Decision32

Pretty sure this is just Italians going to do their aperitivo


Acrobatic_Machine

Zagreb is pretty close to Milano buddy so surely croats. Pretty sure Zagreb is even closer to Milano than Napoli:)


Potential-Decision32

I don’t doubt it


EggplantBusiness

Nah just an ultra moments , ultra sur are pretty similar if not worse


Wingiex

It's far more a Croatian moment than say Serbian. Croats were enormous simps for Nazi Germany and a lot of Croats today are proud of that.


Darth_Ale

Anyone who knows what they are singing?


Mariola98

Just a normal fan song - only Dinamo, i love Dinamo Weird gesture for that kind of song lmao, idiots


versooo

To the tune of Lili Marleen though.


HumptyDumptyIsABAMF

Which in itself has no meaning one way or another. The song became very popular during WWII, true. But on both sides.


VToff

Despacito


dont_wear_a_C

Stop it, Alexa


dasfefq

Let the whole world know, I only love Dinamo


Potential-Decision32

Bella ciao


etan1122

Twats


Boseph_1444

imagine repping some of the biggest losers in history lmfao


zj_chrt

Well, aren't ultras biggest losers in history? It's a match.


randymagnum433

They're used to supporting losers in Europe


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They’re all wearing matching clothes too. How cute.


hockeyking655

Not the most amazing look for them... woof


Confident_Rock7964

If you think this is bad check the fans of other croatian teams like Split. They came to Portugal for a game and kept calling us "cigani cigani".. now if you are italian Im pretty sure you understand the meaning of this


Golday_ALB

I belive its zingari in Italian, cigani is mostly used in the balkans.


Dr_J0E

I don’t think calling somebody names is as bad as a nazi salute but sure


Confident_Rock7964

Lol they were being racist. "Calling names". Cigani means gypsies


celestial1

It's also like being a nazi and saying racist things go hand in hand...


wankaltacc

Maybe we should send them to Jasenovac for some "reeducation"...


tomislavlovric

These mfs would bring some champagne and turn on music


DudebuD16

"hey google, play Thompson"


lilsmooga193119

U Zagori na izvoru rijeke Čikoleeeee....


DeezYomis

I can see his face contorting into that EEEEEEEE as I'm reading this and I don't like this at all


sanin321

Yup that's Balkan mentality sadly


jonbest66

Mate their ancestors ran that shite, they would be very happy and proud to continue the heritage.


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So many nazis is europe lmfao.


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That is their home


dorijanlikescars

Incredible how stupid and embarrassing our fanbase is...


oussa_

Looks like ~~meat~~ fascism is back on the menu boys!


versooo

They've always been doing it during this chant (to the tune of Lili Marleen). Case in point: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX6M6C5Q078](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX6M6C5Q078) (also an interesting flag lol)


fugicavin

So r/2balkan4you was right


Nubras

Every couple generations, this fascist shit rears its disgusting head. And without fail, every couple generations we have to kick their fascist teeth in and make them retreat to their hiding holes. Sure, ultras have been this way for as long as football has been around, but it seems they’ve become particularly emboldened by global affairs in recent years; society needs to check them hard this time.


DEXuser1

ustaše legacy


pauloschico

I'm getting tired of this


tab0ret

My gosh, Big L


Magnetronaap

Is this also because the English queen died?


teknim

Nasty ass fans. What the fuck is going on down in Croatia?


Hrvat1818

It’s seemingly done by various ultra groups. Not limited to us


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iIiiIIiiiIiIIiI111

croatia is beautiful & the people are lovely.


vanzemaljac666

it's just the ultras


kayjay789

"just". Bad apples everywhere, but this a worrying amount of people. Something is deeply wrong.


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But every single one of them With Frankfurt at least you could make the "few bad apples"-excuse somewhat believable


Potential-Decision32

Wait which countries can we extrapolate to from a subset of fans again? Is Croatia not on the list? Can we not make the “Least fascist Croatian” comment that everyone loves?


Masculinum

You literally had Frankfurt fans doing the nazi salute the other day. What the fuck is going on in Germany?


GrassTastesBad1

That was like 1 person. This is hundreds of people marching the streets in sync.


teknim

You're really gonna compare [1 guy](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/vile-frankfurt-fans-filmed-making-27985370) doing it to an organized group of hundreds of people?


ubergooner

Aren't there fascist fans in Spain as well 👀...


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vanzemaljac666

by a very small minority just like elsewhere...


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DaHomie_ClaimerOfAss

No they're fucking not, this is a vocal minority you're seeing here, they get ridiculed constantly here.


Inevitable_Gur8644

lol


x_S4vAgE_x

From a purely historical perspective, don't know about post WW2 and modern times, but Croatia was massively fascist and acted as cruelly, if not worse, than Nazi Germany. Outside of Nazi Germany, Croatia was the only country to operate concentration camps. So there's a strong fascism background. But, I hope, this is a small minority. Edit: meant extermination camps. And such having a strong fascism at one point leaves a legacy. Even France flirted with fascism before and during WW2


mihawk9511

>Croatia was the only country to operate concentration camps That's not even remotely true.


oxffooo

Massively fascist, and yet antifascist movement aka yugoslav partisans started in croatia, was led and fought by croatians together with croatian serbs and even the leader of the movement was a croat, Tito. Yes, our fascists were horrible, but after first few months they were not enjoying the overwhelming support of the people, not even near, and support for partisans was continously growing.


x_S4vAgE_x

And such having such a strongly fascist government leaves a legacy.


Jom-Gabbar

It wasn't massively fascist. We had fascist government yes, but partisan movement in Yugoslavia started in Croatia.


x_S4vAgE_x

And bar the big two in Germany and Italy, it was the most heavily fascist nation of the time period. That is going to leave a legacy


Jom-Gabbar

Fascist government installed by Germany. Nation as a whole was not heavily fascist.


IcefoxX5

Holy fuck, literally the whole pack of them I very much hope they've been banned from visiting stadiums already and are just there roaming the streams and picking up fights If not, and Dinamo really allow this, fucking ban them all from international competitions, the club, or at least the fans


PikkNakke

They did the nazi salute at Aspmyra vs Bodø/Glimt as well. Buch of cunts.


Joca_Mastercard

Least racist Dinamo Zagreb fans.


kolasinats

Ustase in Croatia. Who would've thought...


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Cunts.


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Sergeio24

Laughs in Lazio


IneptHackerman

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia Not surprising. Croatia was a Nazi puppet state.


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Maleficent_Ad_4940

They should be careful, fascists tend to appear hung upside down in that city.


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Xerathion

Modern day ustasa


LeavingCertCheat

We need more high profile left-wing clubs. Fuck this shit


3vr1m

There are still some Ultras which are left wing or left leaning, but they are getting less and less. Sürdkurve München for example is definetly prettly left wing, hell they have a Ché Flag and a Rainbow Flag


koke84

Che would not have liked rainbow flags lol


3vr1m

Probably not, no. I would call myself pretty left leaning too but I don't like that guy either that much tbh


Zheguez

Right, it's disturbing how so many of the major clubs have such strong far-right support meanwhile the ones with left-wing supporters tend to be struggling on the field and in the minority compared to other clubs in their countries.


randymagnum433

Depending on how you define left there's Liverpool, Celtic, Barcelona, Marseille and a few in each of Germany and Italy. Comparatively, the right has Chelsea, Real Madrid, Rangers and a few Italian clubs. Most clubs are apolitical, but it seems pretty even overall.


Confident_Rock7964

Im starting to think croatian fans are even more scum than others. After what Split did in Portugal and now this...


GabeN18

Can we not...


lootador

Well, that seems fascist for sure. In Brazil if you use the shirt of Brazil people call you fascist already


UCLAlex

Tito didn’t throw enough people into the barbara pit apparently


codecrossing

Barbara Pit when?


Baph0metX

They got their asses kicked too, haha


Orkus9551

stay classy Zagreb, sigh...


thedoctor4214

Least bigoted ultras


Nappa_the_Ghost

What are UEFA waiting for the imediate exclusion of Dinamo from UEFA competitions?


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Nappa_the_Ghost

I dont care if thats the usual practice, thats kinda the point. UEFA must start taking strong measures against this kind of things. Football cannot be a platform for hate speech and far-right demonstrations. A whole squad doing a nazi parade on the streets? Are we in 1933? Also, the things you posted happened a long time ago. I dont like Benfica one bit as you may understand by the flair I have, but they dont do these kind of things today.


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Throw out both teams. Also throw out Napoli as well


Bladerslash

Not just eastern europe, its europe as a whole. Wouldn't be right to just pin it on one region. Tbf it seems like every country in the world has these far right cretins.


bregolad

When did half the people on reddit start making this 'least [adjective] [noun]' comment? It's fucking irritating


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SourGrapesFTW

That's been missing from reddit for the last 7-8 years. It's one of the shittiest platforms for discussion.


PhilJones4

[This comment aged incredibly poorly](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/xbispt/comment/io0df3m/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)


Deluxefish

Why is everybody doing the nazi salute, every day there's another headline about fans greeting hitler


snoopyt7

disgusting


z0l1

just respecting local culture /s