These structures were commissioned by former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito in the 1960s and 70s to commemorate sites where WWII battles took place, or where concentration camps stood.
The monument above is the
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Monument to the Revolution in Podgarić, Berek, Croatia. Built in 1967 and designed by Dušan Džamonja, the memorial pays tribute to the people of Moslavina during the Second World War.
A famous one, and still very visited, the ‘stone flower’ monument to detainees of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, designed by Bogdan Bogdanović and unveiled in 1966. It is thought that around 100,000 Serbs, Jews and gypsies were killed at the extermination camp during WWII
Three concrete fists at Bubanj Memorial Park in Niš, Serbia. The memorial, which was designed by sculptor Ivan Sabolić and unveiled in 1963, commemorates the shooting and execution of more than 10,000 local people during the Second World War:
The National Liberation Fight in Maribor, Slovenia, pays tribute to people killed by the Nazis during World War II for rising up against occupation. The spherical bronze sculpture was created by local artist Slavko Tihec and erected in 1975:
Interrupted Flight, a monument to Serbian, Jewish and Roma men and boys murdered on 20 and 21 October 1941 in Kragujevac, Serbia:
The National Liberation War Monument, also known as the Martyr’s Monument. This memorial in Pristina, Kosovo, honours fighters who fell during the liberation of the region in WWII:
The Monument to Hanged Patriots in Vranjske Njive, Montenegro:
These are just a few monuments, because there are actually a LOT of them:
but I couldn’t explain things better than in this article. (Ye I’m a lazy fuck but honestly this article is so good and anything I could add to this would be dog shit)
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