THE TOMB OF NATIONAL HEROES IN BELGRADE VANDALIZED

THE TOMB OF NATIONAL HEROES IN BELGRADE VANDALIZED

Vandals from Serbian Action, ultranationalist and clerical fascist movement, on Sunday damaged The Tomb of National Heroes in Belgrade. Graffiti in red paint covering the memorial, the slogan include "Death to the Commune", the famous fascist slogan of the Serbian Volunteer Corps, authoritarian movement led by anti-communist and anti-Semitic politician Dimitrije Ljotic.

It is not the first time The National Heroes Tomb has been attacked. In the 1990s it was painted with anti-communist slogans and the National Heroes busts was even pulled off once.

The Tomb of National Heroes was built between 1948 and 1950, underneath the Bulwarks of the Fortress, on the Great Sava Promenade. On the occasion of its ceremonial foundation in 1948, as the event of the March 27 festival commemorations, the relics of two national heroes - Ivo Lola Ribar and Ivan Milutinovic - were moved there. The relics of Đuro Đaković were transferred to the tomb in 1949 and Mosa Pijade was buried there in 1957.

NKPJ condemned the vandalism as anti-civilization, fascist and anti-Labor deed.  Monument will never be the same again" and will bear those battle scars for the future.

The ideas of communism are powerful enough to outlast any damage done by a fascist vandal.

Belgrade, December 9, 2019