Where the Streets Have Tito’s Name
After Yugoslavia’s dissolution, a large number of places named after Tito were renamed, beginning with cities bearing his name’s adjective.
After Yugoslavia’s dissolution, a large number of places named after Tito were renamed, beginning with cities bearing his name’s adjective.
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.
Belgrade Mayor has proposed that Tito’s grave be relocated from the House of Flowers to Kumrovec.
Post-Yugoslav literature is burdened with collective memory, but it also has the ability to look in the mirror of history. If something good has come from all the terrible events that happened in ex-Yugoslavia and to it, it is that [they] have provoked an interest in the literature of my region.
A visit to cemeteries in the former Yugoslavia.
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