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I Traveled 5000km Through The Balkans Looking For Futuristic Communist Monuments
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I Traveled 5000km Through The Balkans Looking For Futuristic Communist Monuments

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I drove more than 5000 kilometers through Ex-Yugoslavia and which is now Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Slovenia looking for Spomeniks.

Spomenik, which literally means Monument, were built in the 60s-70s under former Yugoslavian president Tito’s regime in homage to the communist resistance to the nazi occupation, they commemorate sites of important WWII battles or where concentration camps stood.

In the 80s, these monuments attracted millions of visitors per year but when Yugoslovia burst, many of them suffered from local wars and almost 30 years after the country dissolved, some are parts of official memorials, some are more or less maintained and others are totally abandoned.

Here is what’s left of 10 of these pieces of history.

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    Jonk

    Jonk

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    Passionate photographer, I travel the world looking for abandoned places. I visited more than eight hundreds of them in almost 40 countries on 4 continents. You will find some of the pictures I brought back from these travels clicking the links in my bio.

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    Jonk

    Jonk

    Author, Community member

    Passionate photographer, I travel the world looking for abandoned places. I visited more than eight hundreds of them in almost 40 countries on 4 continents. You will find some of the pictures I brought back from these travels clicking the links in my bio.

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    Vladimir
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You've missed Buzludzha monument in Bulgaria. Google it :)

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    Vladimir
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    7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You've missed Buzludzha monument in Bulgaria. Google it :)

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