After Croatia’s President stated on Sunday that Croats contributed the most to the antifascist struggle in Europe, the Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency said on Monday that all leaders present at the meeting where she said that are well aware that the WWII Independent State of Croatia was a satellite country of Nazi Germany.

“The Croatian people, proportionate to their population, contributed the most to the antifascist struggle in Europe in which more than half a million Croatian citizens actively took part,” Croatia’s Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said as she attended a commemoration marking the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II in Warsaw on Sunday.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik reacted the next day.

“All the heads of state who gathered in Poland yesterday know that the Independent State of Croatia was a satellite country of fascist Germany, and that within that framework the biggest atrocities in World War II were committed against Serbs, Jews, the Roma and other antifascists,” Dodik said.

He said that there were Croats as well involved in the battle against fascism in former Yugoslavia, but that the number of them is smaller than the Croatian President stated.

“It is a historic fact that it was the Serbs who raised the rebellion and are those who carried the antifascist movement in the Independent State of Croatia as well,” he said.

“Whatever the Croatian President might have said, it cannot change the historic fact that Serbs were one of the people who suffered the most on the territory of former Yugoslavia and Europe in their battle against fascism and nazism, and that truth was verified internationally,” he said.