Abstract: This article is based on the evolution of the Ustasha anthem. The text deals with the transformation of a folk song into an Ustasha battle song, which was later sung as the second official anthem in the Independent State of Croatia. The author demonstrates the theories about the genesis of the song in the first part of the text, and points out its presumable origin. For this purpose, statements from Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian songbooks and anthologies from the 19th and the early 20th centuries are used. The myths surrounding the birth of th...
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