Kajin said he was dissatisfied with the announced amendments, claiming that fascism and communism were not the same although many innocent people had been killed in the name of communism. He said that such changes to the Criminal Code would be "a crude falsification" of history.
Kajin said that it seemed that the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) wanted to curry favour with its most loyal followers by equating communism and fascism.
Last Friday the government instructed the Justice Ministry to draft and submit within eight days amendments to the Criminal Code banning the promotion and glorification of totalitarian ideologies.
Expressing his disagreement with such changes, Kajin said that the World War Two Partisan resistance movement led by Josip Broz Tito deserved credit for reintegrating Istria, Rijeka, Zadar and Medjimurje to Croatia and establishing the country's present-day borders.