List Of Yugoslav World War II Monuments And Memorials In Croatia
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List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia represent monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day
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in
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between 1945 and 1991. It does not include busts or other statues of individuals ( see bottom).


History

The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the
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. Yugoslav president
Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...
commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including
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, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović, Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number was built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites. After the
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and during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s, World War II monuments and memorials were targeted and destroyed by vandals while the new
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n government did nothing to prevent them. It is thought that around 3000 antifascist memorials have been destroyed in Croatia since 1991 while some others were removed. Today, the remaining memorial sites are visited by mostly local antifascist organisations and World War II veterans. In recent times, some demolished monuments were rebuilt.


List


See also

*People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Montenegro *List of World War II monuments and memorials in North Macedonia *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia *List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia *List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials


References

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