Even though places named after Tito were all renamed at the end of the last millennium, a number of squares, roads, and streets have retained the names of the former Yugoslav leader. Is it, from today’s perspective, nostalgia, shame, or a part of history we can’t simply erase?
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The episode is just the latest example of America’s presence in the region, which dates back to World War II and particularly socialist Yugoslavia, which, some say, wouldn’t have survived without American loans, grants, and barters.
Built for the 1984 Olympic Winter Games, used as a makeshift military installation during the Siege of Sarajevo, and left to decay in the decades hence, the skeleton of the bobsled and luge track at Mt. Trebević is now a tourist attraction for war trippers and ruin porn addicts.
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