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07/09/2026

The Kočevje Assembly, formally the Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation, met in Kočevje on the 1st of October 1943, immediately after Italy's capitulation where a large liberated territory was created in southern Slovenia. It was convened by the Executive Committee of the Liberation Front (Izvršni odbor OF), which organized elections across liberated and accessible areas in September 1943. Interestingly, voting rights were extended to men and women aged 17 and older. More than 600 representatives assembled to give the Partisan resistance a broadly representative political authority rather than merely a military organization. The Assembly elected a 120-member Slovene National Liberation Committee (SNOO) as the supreme representative and legislative body, affirmed the principle of a united Slovenia entering a new federal Yugoslavia as an equal nation. It therefore represented a crucial step toward Slovenian statehood and parliamentary government within federal Yugoslavia. The Assembly met in the large hall of Kočevje's Sokolski dom (as seen in the above photo), today called Šeškov Dom and home to the Pokrajinski Muzej Kočevje. It was commissioned by the local Sokol Society and opened in 1938, designed by the civil engineer Gustav Trenz of Novo Mesto. For the 1943 assembly, the hall was specially decorated and at Boris Kidrič's suggestion the famous words of Ivan Cankar, “NAROD SI BO PISAL SODBO SAM” (“The nation will write its own judgment”), were placed above the stage. Three weeks after the Assembly, the Germany Army occupied Kočevje, at which point they angrily shot bullets at the defiant slogan above the stage, damage which still exists and can be seen to the present day. The other painted slogans on either side of the stage were destroyed during WWII, but were restored during the Yugoslav-era.

06/09/2026

Here is a photo we took a few years back of the Town Hall or Spomen-Dom center and complex which commemorates the first assembly of the National Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Montenegro and Boka which occurred near this location in 1943. This is located at a complex in the city center of Kolašin, Montenegro. The unique pointed roof shape of this immense concrete building is meant to be reminiscent of the unique Dinaric roof style of traditional mountain dwellings in this mountain region. The imagery of this building was co-opted by Marvel creators for the 2022 TV series "She Hulk", where it was repurposed as a prison for super-villains. However, it's author, architect Marko Mušič, was never consulted or credited through that process.
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🎨🏗️🏛️ This complex was created in 1975 by Slovene architect Marko Mušič, also, helping Mušič on this project was his famous architect father Marjan.
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05/09/2026

After narrowly escaping capture a few months before during the Battle of Sutjeska in June of 1943, Josip Broz Tito and his Partisan Army were heading north, eventually arriving at the small waterfall-rich landscape of Jajce by the autumn of 1943. While camped in Jajce that September, Tito heard the news of Italy's capitulation. In light of this encouraging info, Tito felt that this was the perfect opportunity to convene a second AVNOJ session there at Jajce, where the Partisans had settled in. As such, on November 29th, 1943, the 2nd AVNOJ Session began in Jajce, all with Tito watching over. The building selected to host this large event was the old "Sokol" Society building (constructed in 1934 by architect Momir Korunović). Sitting along the banks of the Pliva River on the south edge of town. The building was most likely chosen not only b/c it was sufficiently large, but also, sitting on the edge of town, it would be an unlikely target in the event any air attacks. This session at Jajce, which was attended by delegates from across the Yugoslav region, lasted three days and was presided over by the president of the KPJ, famous politician Ivan Ribar, who had also convened over the first session at Bihać. During this session, it was declared that AVNOJ was the exclusive and sole legislative and executive body of a federally organized Yugoslavia and that it no longer recognizes the Karađorđević royal family as the country's legitimate government, as well as declaring that Yugoslavia will be established on democratic principles and all republics of the federation will stand as equals. These actions were effectively the birth of a federal Yugoslavia. In 1953, the 2nd AVNOJ building was established as a museum (as seen in the above Yugoslav-era photo) and its main hall was preserved as a memorial space. It remains like this up to the present day.

04/09/2026

In November 1942 during WWII, the Partisans captured Bihać and secured control over a large part of western Bosnia, Dalmatia and Lika, which they called the Bihać Republic. On the 26th of that month, a pan-Yugoslav Anti-Fascist Council was convened and the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) was established in the town at the initiative of Tito and the Yugoslav Communist Party. Tito personally attended this council session. At this founding session, the AVNOJ adopted the principle of a multi-ethnic federal state as the basis for the country's future government. However, the Bihać session did not yet proclaim a new Yugoslav state or abolish the authority of the royal government-in-exile; those more radical constitutional decisions came at the Second Session in Jajce a year later. The building within which this event was held in was an annex of the convent of the "Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ", the annex serving as a cultural center and was built by architect Stjepan Podhorski in 1939, funded by Bihać emigrants in the United States. To honor the 10th anniversary of this first session, the building was established as a museum in 1952 to commemorate the 1st session of the AVNOJ (as seen in the above photo). The session hall exhibit was recreated and set up to be exactly how it was during that event in November of 1942. The museum complex was significantly damaged during the conflicts of the Bosnian War. However, in 2014 the museum was rehabilitated with ~200,000 euros. It continues to operate up to the present day.

03/09/2026

Here we see a view of the complex which commemorates the soldiers and veterans who fought and fell during the 1941 "Battle of Kadinjača", where Partisans of the Worker's Battalion struggled against German forces in the defense of the city of Užice. The Worker's Battalion fought to the bitter end in a effort to allow precious time for Tito and the Partisan leadership (along with civilians) to escape the town before it fell to the enemy. This monument complex is located at the Kadinjača Spomen-Park complex in the mountains just north of Užice, Serbia...
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📷📷📷 This photo was taken by the photographer HIISHII with ...thanks so much! Amazing photo! Check out their hiishiixserbia project!
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🎨🏗️🏛️This memorial complex was created in 1979 by Belgrade sculptor Miodrag Živković.
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02/09/2026

Roughly 30km northeast of Kumanovo is the Prohor Pčinjski Monastery, just over the border into what is present-day Serbia in the Kozjačija mountain region. It was here within this monastery that the 1st Session of ASNOM (Anti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia) was held. This secret wartime event, brought together amidst Axis occupation, was organized by the Macedonian Partisans and served as a constitutive state-building assembly that laid the legal and political foundations for the subsequent Macedonian communist republic within Yugoslavia, as well as granting civil rights to the people of this new republic. Convened on August 2, 1944 (a date that symbolically marked 41 years since the famous Ilinden Uprising of 1903 against the Ottomans), the 1st ASNOM is considered one of the most vital milestones in the nation’s history. In the years after the end of WWII, the room at Prohor Pčinjski Monastery where the 1st Session of ASNOM had taken place was preserved and turned into a memorial room for tourists to visit, being staged and arranged exactly as it was on that day in 1944 (as seen in the above 1970s photo). This was a hugely popular attraction and pilgrimage site (being given almost sacred status), with mass celebrations being held here every August 2nd during the Yugoslav-era. However, in 1998, during the process of Yugoslavia's disintegration, the monastery's historic ASNOM Memorial Room was dismantled and all of its exhibits removed under the direction of Serbian authorities and the Serbian Orthodox Church. As a result, a new ASMON Museum was constructed in 2004 just south in the MK town of Pelince, created by famous architect Georgi Konstantinovski. An exact duplicate of the Memorial Hall was created inside this new museum.

01/09/2026

Here we see a photo of the that is known as the "Unknown Soldier", that is located in the town of Gjilan/Gnjilane, which is roughly 1hr driving southeast of the city of Prishtina. The cubist-like bronze depicts a stylized figure standing tall while holding a fallen fighter in its arms, a symbol of brotherhood and never leaving comrades behind. While originally occupying a central spot in the towns center, it was moved to a less prominent location several years ago. It continues to exist in good condition.
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🎨🏛️🏗️ This work was created in 1963 by Belgrade artist Ante Gržetić.
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📸📸📸 This photo was taken by 伏見明堂... thanks so much!
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31/08/2026

Here we see a photo of an immense that is installed in the turbine room of the Đerdap Hydroelectric Dam on the Danube River just northwest of Kladovo, . The huge work no doubt stands as an evocative to the many workers from both Yugoslavia and Romania who worked on the construction of this enormous civic infrastructure project, which, when it was opened in 1972, it was the largest dam on the Danube and the 10th largest hydro plant in the world. Titled "The Power of the Danube", it is composed of dynamic spinning turbines, radiating electric waves, streaming flows, all cast upon a red background, the sculpture stands roughly 30m tall and, i would venture, is most likely the largest relief sculpture in Serbia. It continues to exist intact and in good condition up to the present day.
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🎨🏛️📸 This sculpture was unveiled with the opening of the dam in 1972 and was created by Croatian sculptor Frane Dellale!
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📸📸📸 This photo was taken by Serbian Adventures... thanks so much!
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30/08/2026

Here is a photo I took a few years back of the neglected which commemorates local fighters and , as well as civilian victims, who perished during the People's Liberation Struggle (1941-1945) against fascist occupation and oppression. Comprised of a series of connected metal tubes, this is located at the spomenik park complex in Bratunac, BiH, near the banks of the Drina River .
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🎨🏗️🏛️ This work was created in 1978 by Sarajevo sculptor Petar Krstić.
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29/08/2026

Here we see a recent photo of the that is dedicated to the deadly raids that occurred here in Čurug, Serbia (in the Bačka region of Vojvodina) in January of 1942, where innocent civilians (Serbs, Jews, Roma, among others) were forced out onto the ice of the Tisa River by fascist Hungarian forces, at which point the ice was shot out from underneath of these victims, resulting in them drowning and freezing to death. The monument is located next to the river where this atrocity occurred, on an embankment called "Treča Rampa". The bronze sculpture depicts ghostly elongated forms, almost as if they were rising up from their watery graves to the next realm. The monument exists in good condition.
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🏛️🏗️🎨 This work was created in 1985 by Vojvodina sculptor Jovan Soldatović.
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📸📸📸 This photo comes from the Tourist Organization of the Municipality of Žabalj.
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