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title: Yugoslav People's Army leaflet 'Ustaški zlikovci!' calling on Croatian forces to surrender (Dubrovnik area, 1991)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yugoslav-army-leaflet-ustasha-criminals-surrender-1991/
description: Typewritten-style leaflet in dark type on cream paper, headed 'USTAŠKI ZLIKOVCI!' (Ustasha villains). Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime Yugoslav Army leaflet that addresses Croatian fighters as 'Ustasha villains' and threatens to deal with them 'mercilessly', shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Yugoslav People's Army leaflet 'Ustaški zlikovci!', 1991 Yugoslavia leaflet: Typewritten-style leaflet in dark type on cream](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/yugoslav-army-leaflet-ustasha-criminals-surrender-1991.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/yugoslav-army-leaflet-ustasha-criminals-surrender-1991.jpg)

# Yugoslav People's Army leaflet 'Ustaški zlikovci!' calling on Croatian forces to surrender (Dubrovnik area, 1991)

Typewritten-style leaflet in dark type on cream paper, headed 'USTAŠKI ZLIKOVCI!' (Ustasha villains). It says the readers have done enough evil to both the Serb and the Croat people and deserve to be dealt with without mercy, offers a 'last chance' to save their lives by surrendering to JNA units, and states that those who do not surrender will be regarded as criminals and tried. The tells are the opening label, which applies a 1941 to 1945 regime's name to the readers, and the two-way offer: surrender and live, or be treated as criminals.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Serbian) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Serbian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
USTAŠKI ZLIKOVCI!

Dosta ste zla učinili i srpskom i hrvatskom narodu, zbog čega ste zaslužili da se sa vama nemilosrdno obračunamo.

Da bi se izbegle dalje žrtve i materijalna razaranja, dajemo vam poslednju šansu da sačuvate vaše živote i da se predate jedinicama JNA.

U tom slučaju spasićete vaše živote!

Ukoliko se ne predate smatraćemo vas zločincima i tako će vam se suditi.

Komandant
Operativne grupe
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
USTASHA VILLAINS!

You have done enough evil to both the Serb and the Croat people, for which you have deserved that we deal with you mercilessly.

To avoid further casualties and material destruction, we give you a last chance to save your lives and to surrender to JNA units.

In that case you will save your lives!

If you do not surrender we will regard you as criminals and you will be tried accordingly.

Commander
of the Operational Group

(Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.)
```

Read from a 543 px photograph; the page continues below the frame after 'Operativne grupe' (name and date not visible). Line-end hyphenation removed.

[← Yugoslav People's Army leaflet 'Građanima Dubrovnika i Dubrovačke župe' (Dubrovnik, 1991)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yugoslav-army-leaflet-citizens-of-dubrovnik-1991/) [Proclamation 'Građani grada Zagreba!' by Boris Buzančić calling for volunteers to the National Protection units (Zagreb, 1991) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zagreb-buzancic-proglas-national-protection-1991/)

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