Peter Cvjetanovic

Peter Cvjetanovic (also known as Peter Cytanovic; born 1996) is a former American white supremacist known for being photographed while demonstrating with other white nationalists including Neo-Nazis, Proud Boys and Ku Klux Klan members on the Grounds of University of Virginia at the Unite the Right rally in 2017. in 1996. He studied history and political science A photograph of Cvjetanovic and Teddy Joseph Von Nukem holding tiki torches at the Unite the Right rally became the image most commonly used to represent the 2017 right-wing protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. A Boston Globe opinion piece by media studies professor Aniko Bodroghkozy described Cvjetanovic as sporting a "Hitler Youth haircut" in the photograph.

Cvjetanovic resigned as a driver Earlier, the university declined to terminate his employment, despite public pressure to do so, citing Cvjetanovic's right to freedom of expression. In a 2017 interview, Cvjetanovic discussed his decision to resign, citing that students might not "appreciate" him as their chauffeur.

During a 2017 interview on local television about his role in the rally, Cvjetanovic denied being racist, but also spoke of "the slow replacement of white heritage in the United States" and described Confederate general Robert E. Lee as someone that he "wanted to honour [for] what he stood for during his time." Cvjetanovic described the far-left and Antifa as "just as dangerous, if not more dangerous than the right wing could ever be."

By 2019 Cvjetanovic, who reported receiving five credible death threats after the photograph went viral on social media, In an interview with the university's student newspaper that year he said he had never been a neo-Nazi, and did not understand what the term white nationalist meant when he described himself as one.

He is one of eight people featured in Charlotte McDonald-Gibson's 2022 book Far Out: Encounters with Extremists. During an interview for the Pop Culture Crisis podcast he stated that he had "been charged with intimidation for Charlottesville."

Career Cvjetanovic enlisted in the Nevada National Guard in 2019, as Specialist but was discharged in 2021, after background checks highlighted his extremism. Since 2019, he has struggled to find employment due to his infamy.