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The authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established many World War II
Spomenik Database - An exploration of Yugoslav-era WWII monuments
25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future
{{Authority control Yugoslav culture Propaganda in Yugoslavia
The authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established many World War II memorials
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during its existence. Several memorial sites were established between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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 1970s dedicated to World War II battles, and Nazi concentration camp
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sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja
Dušan Džamonja ( sr, Душан Џамоња, ; 31 January 1928 – 14 January 2009) was a Yugoslav sculptor of Serbian ancestry.
Education and career
Džamonja was born in 1928 in Strumica, former Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1 ...
, Vojin Bakić, Miodrag Živković, Jordan and Iskra Grabul, and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović and Gradimir Medaković. After Tito's death, a small number were built, and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites, and since the Yugoslav Wars and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the sites are mostly abandoned.
In Slovenia, World War II Veteran Organisation and its branches yearly hold many commemorative events in regard with the subject of the monuments and people remember the fallen on the Day of the Dead.
On August 28, 2018, author Donald Niebyl published a book titled ''Spomenik Monument Database'', the first-ever English-language guidebook on the WWII monuments of Yugoslavia, after conducting several years of intensive research.
For the list of World War II monuments in each republic of the Former Yugoslavia, see:
*List of World War II monuments and memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina
List of World War II monuments and memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina includes Yugoslav monuments and memorials build on the territory of the present day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History
The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial si ...
*List of World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia
List of Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials in Croatia represent monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Croatia in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1991. It does not include busts or other statues of individuals ( se ...
*List of World War II monuments and memorials in Montenegro
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*List of World War II monuments and memorials in North Macedonia
The list of World War II monuments and memorials in North Macedonia represents monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day North Macedonia during the times of Communist Yugoslavia.
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*List of World War II monuments and memorials in Serbia
This is a list of monuments and memorials dedicated to the National Liberation Movement, its fighters and its victims in the World War II in Yugoslavia, built on the territory of the present day Serbia, including those in the autonomous provinc ...
*List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia
List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia represent Yugoslav monuments and memorials built on the territory of the present day Slovenia.
History
The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, th ...
See also
*People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments {{short description, None
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* World War II memorials and cemeteries in the Netherlands
*Canadian war memorials
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Further reading
*External links
Spomenik Database - An exploration of Yugoslav-era WWII monuments
25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future
{{Authority control Yugoslav culture Propaganda in Yugoslavia