Yugoslavia Forgotten Monuments
- By Ina
- Architecture
Yugoslavia died down in 1992, after this crucial moment most of the monuments that once represented important battles have lost their sense of wonder and visitors stopped coming to see them. Their significance from decades ago has been forgotten.
In the 1960s and 70s the Yugoslavian president, Josip Broz Tito commemorated the sites where WWII battles took place. The monuments representing the confidence and strength of the Socialist Republic were designed by different sculptors and architects.
Kosmaj monument is dedicated to the soldiers of the “Kosmaj Partisan detachment” from World War II. Podgaric is the monument of revolution, it has been sculpted in 1967 by Dusan Dzamonja. In memory of the Workers Battalion Resistance that fought and died on this field during the Battle of Kadinjaa in 1941 was build Kandinjaa monument. Petrova Gora is the monument dedicated to the men and women that set up a central military hospital for the resistance here. Throughout the mountain range there was a system of underground chambers and log cabins that was never discovered by any of the armed forces of the Axis powers. The hospital remained in operation until May 1945. Nis monument is about three fists of different sizes depict men’s, women’s and children’s hands reaching skyward trying to defy the enemy. This abandoned sculptures are waiting for the people to see their significance and to be visited again.
