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Ustashi, n. pl.|uːˈstɑːʃɪ| (Also taken as sing. with pl. -s.) Also -chi, -ci, -sha, -ša, -še, -si. [a. Serbo-Croatian Ustaše pl., Ustaša sing., insurgent rebel.] (Members of) a party and separatist movement of Croatians; the soldiers and supporters of the autonomous Croatian régime between 1941 and 1944: as sing., a member or supporter of the Croatian separatist movement. Also attrib.
1932Times 8 Oct. 11/6 The Ustasi move in small groups from village to village and organize their adherents, train them in shooting, and disappear as suddenly as they came. 1943C. Hollingworth German just behind Me xiii. 258 There are also the terrorist societies such as the Croat Ustashi. 1946A. M. Hyamson Dict. Internat. Affairs 334 Ustaci, The, the party of Croatian Fascists who, under Pavelitch and subject to the overriding veto of Germany and Italy, governed Croatia after its conquest in 1941 by Germany. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment ii. i. 217 The Arab troops in this region were..reinforced by..Croat Ustachis. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches iii. iii. 334 The independent State of Croatia..was a kingdom, but its King, the Italian Duke of Spoleto, had wisely omitted to take up his appointment and power was in the hands of Ante Pavelić and his Ustaše, supported by the Wehrmacht. Ibid., Orthodox churches were..burned down with the screaming congregation inside them (an Ustaše speciality, this). 1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender iii. i. 210 There are five or six divisions of Cetnics and Ustachi..the Serb and Croat Quislings. 1972Guardian 28 Jan. 11/2 If Ustashi activists..planted a bomb on board the Yugoslav airliner..it will be their biggest outrage since the war. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 24–30 Aug. 1405/1 Frequent statements that the Ustasha exists in Australia and that the croatian community..condones terrorist acts. 1976New Yorker 22 Mar. 64/2 Two Croatian nationalists—members of Ustaša, the party that ran an ‘autonomous’ Croatian state for the Nazis during the Second World War, killed hundreds of thousands of other Yugoslavs, and operates now as a secret terrorist society—tortured and then murdered the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden. 1976J. Colville Footprints in Time xxxvii. 213 The fanatic Croat Ustasi. 1978‘G. Vaughan’ Belgrade Drop vii. 46 The caves where the Ustaše, the Croat fascists whose fanaticism in Hitler's cause had rivalled that of the SS, had butchered the Partisans. 1980Listener 28 Feb. 265/3 The Ustashas were Croat Fascist collaborators. |