He who kills other people's children has no children

"I love you and I am proud of you. And if I had to choose whether to die with you or live with these scarecrows, I would choose death. Because a long time ago, in the other world, there is a wonderful verse by a great poet that says In Navarre dying of shame. If we Croats didn't have this dignity and if we didn't have this love, we would die of shame, but these people here have nothing to die for because they have neither dignity nor love.

If the generals had a family, if the generals had children, if the generals had loved ones, then they would never live in this building. But generals have no children, I assure you, because he who kills other people's children has no children. Because he who makes other people's mothers cry has no mother. Because he who destroys other people's homes has no home. And they must know that there is no mother, no children, no home for them on this earth. He will die in the wasteland of his dead heart. Their children will be ashamed of them, because they were not their fathers. Their wives will be ashamed of them, because they were the murderers of other people's children. Their families will be ashamed of them, because they destroyed other people's families.

We are standing here, dear citizens of Zagreb, do you know in front of which building? In front of the "Croatian Workforce", built so that Croatian students and the poor could get an education, so that Croatia would progress, so that Croatia would be a modern nation. That building was built by the bravest and poorest Croats to make Croatia worthy of Europe. And who is in it now, the remnants of communism, the killers of the Croatian people! They have the nerve to occupy our sacred buildings, our endowments, and talk about their property in Croatia. They threaten us to take what is theirs. They tell us that when they leave, they will leave behind desolation. And we know that they will only return with what they will steal, because they never had anything else. Everything they have, everything they eat, everything they drink, everything they wear is yours. You pay for it, you work for it, you suffer for it. They say they will steal, and I ask these gentlemen, where did they acquire the wealth that Croatia has been acquiring for a thousand years. Let them tell us where their cities are that are thousands of years old, where their castles are, where their palaces are, where their treasures are that we have here and that they threaten to destroy. Let them destroy their own, but it's easy for them, they don't need to destroy because they don't have any of that.

What they want, remember well, they want us to be equal to themselves, they want us to be wild like them, they want us to have nothing like them, they want us to be murderers like them, they want us to have no morals like them, they want us to sit in other people's homes and in other people's cities like them. We don't need that. We have our homeland, we have our cities, we have our culture, we have our nation. Let them get out of here!

Please, please, what kind of people are they, if we may talk about people at all, who sit in other people's houses, who warm themselves on other people's fireplaces, who live in other people's buildings, who enjoy other people's money and other people's bread, and dare to kill those who they give that. They would have died a long time ago if they had even a trace of man in them. They would die of shame, they would die of humiliation, they would die of what every honest man dies of when he has made a mistake. But demons move through history as if they were immortal. But let them not forget that the death that has come to them is definitive. What died in Moscow will die here, what dies with the Russian generals will die here. My colleague said, there will always be one feather left and someone will always say: no. The Croatian people will remain, we will remain here with hundreds, with thousands of pens, to show how much and how we have done throughout this history, to survive, to be human, to never agree to become moral scarecrows like those who claim to us that they protect us. Who are they protecting us from in our homeland? From U.S. Let them leave us alone, we will manage better than them.' Let them leave us alone, we will secure our freedom, our independence and our dignity.

And finally, you mothers and you women, who came here in a unique gathering that has ever been held in Europe, you once again show that in the depths of your heart, Croatia is the one that is educated and the one that is not educated, the one that is masculine and the one that is feminine, imbued with the same magnificent principle of love and dignity. And that's why I started with the fact that I love you and that's why I started with the fact that I'd rather die with you than live with them. And I know, I know for sure that I will live in this love and with this love, in this dignity and with this dignity even when I am gone, and that is my joy and that is my strength, like all of you.

And let that strength, let that love and let that courage guide Croatia, the armed and the unarmed, because we who are not armed are no less brave, no less proud, no less in love with our homeland.

If we do not have weapons, we have the strength of what is there, the strength of our love, the strength of our dignity, the strength of our willingness to die if we cannot live as people. And that's what we don't give! That's why I'm not afraid.

Croatia is alive, was alive and will live! Cheers!"