Futuristic monuments

Such futuristic monuments you can see almost the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia. These monuments were built by order of former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito in 1960 and 1970 to commemorate the battles of World War II. In the past they enjoyed huge popularity, but because of the change of generations now they have become almost nobody wants. Tito could not erect statues or busts of the generals, because he did not want to give preference to any ethnic group, because he decided to build these things & quot ;, - said Belgian Kempeners (Jan Kempenaers), who is studying at the School of Art in Ghent.

Monuments are made of reinforced concrete, steel and granite. Once very popular, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Yugoslav wars they were abandoned and forgotten. When Kempeners told locals that he photographs they took him for a madman.





Monument in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia, was designed by Janez Lenassi (Janez Lenassi) and built in 1965. It honors the memory of Slovenian soldiers who died in World War II.



The monument in the Petrova Gora in Croatia designed Warrior Bakic (Vojin Bakić), it was erected in 1982. The monument commemorates the residents of Kordun and Banovina, who died during the Second World War. It was dismantled in 2011.



The memorial complex "Susanyar" in Bosnia and Herzegovina was built in memory of the thousands of people killed by the Germans during the Orthodox holiday Elijah's Day in 1941.



Monument "Krusevo Macedonium" Macedonia is dedicated to the Ilinden uprising in 1903 - then the Macedonian population was against the Ottoman Empire.



This monument in the Serbian town of Nis, was built in 1963 in memory of the 10,000 local residents who were killed in World War II. Three clenched fist were designed by the sculptor Ivan Sabolichem (Ivan Sabolić).



This monument is dedicated to the soldiers who liberated from the Nazis Croatian town of Knin.



The author of the monument in memory of the Battle of the Sutjeska, the bloodiest battle of the Second World War on the territory of the former Yugoslavia - the sculptor Miodrag Zivkovic (Miodrag Živković).



Kossuth Monument commemorates the fallen in World War II and the war in Croatia (1991-1995).



The memorial complex in memory of the victims Kadinyache honors in the battle for Kadinyachu.



The author of the monument, which was built in 1949 in memory of the fallen soldiers of the Yugoslav Front - Warrior Bakic (Vojin Bakić).



This sculpture was designed in 1973 by Bogdan Bogdanovic (Bogdan Bogdanovic). It is dedicated to mining in Kosovo.



Monument to Cosman in Serbia was built in memory of kosmayskih partisans of World War II.



Monument in memory of the victory of Yugoslavia in World War II is in Korenica, on the border between Croatia and Bosnia. According to reports, he had already been dismantled.



Source: inosmi.ru