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Marko Perkovi Thompson is a Croatian musician and has been the lead singer of the band Thompson since 1991. He is known for promoting extreme nationalist and controversial attitudes and is often linked with glorifying NaziUstasha regime that ruled Croatia during WW2. His performance has sparked reactions in Croatia and abroad and had been banned in some states.

Marko Perkovi was born in 1966 in avoglave to Marija and Ante. He rarely saw his father, who worked as a Gastarbeiter in Germany and rarely came home. He finished high school in Split. In 1991, Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, prompting the Croatian War of Independence. He joined the Croatian National Guard where he was given the American Thompson gun, which became the nickname given to him by his battlefield comrades.

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