Three decades after the "Storm" and the fall of Krajina, many exiles never actually left that column. How was it and how is it today? It is the title theme of the new "Time"
Another one of our summer ones is coming up anniversary, those who mourn somewhere and celebrate elsewhere. This time it will be worse than the previous ones, because the force of the calendar and the flow of time says that this anniversary is round. The thirties.
"Vreme" in the summer double issue that arrives on Thursday (July 31) brings stories of its own journalists sa border region roots.
"Serbian brothers, victory is ours!"
In an exhaustive article, colleague Davor Lukač remembers his last day in Knin:
"I jumped out of bed, woke up my parents, told them to get dressed quickly and hide in the bathroom in the middle of the apartment because it's the safest there. Then I turned on a Croatian station - Franjo Tudjman was just sending a message to Serbs to stay in their houses, because the 'Storm' operation had started. At that moment, it was 5.02:XNUMX a.m., the cannonade started and the electricity went out, so I didn't listen to Tudjman's message until the end."
He also remembers well the column in which tanks and mopeds, self-propelled tractors and motocultivators, tractors and tow trucks moved together, carts attached to luxury 'Mercedes', 'jugići' or 'tamići' with boys who had matured overnight at the wheel, old women in black crammed into tractor and truck trailers in the merciless August sun.
"A drunken reservist sitting on a tank 'armed' with two buckets of wine shouts: 'Serb brothers, victory is ours.' He thought he was acting towards Zadar," writes Lukacs.
Forever in the column
There is also a text by Filip Mirilović, who was born in Kotor, two years after his parents, together with others, were expelled from Krajina. It says that Krajine "remembers" actually through the memories of others.
"Individual members of my extended family never left the refugee column. Even today, thirty years later, they live in the memories of life until 1995. Everything that happened later is completely irrelevant because their lives stopped in the morning hours of August 5, somewhere among all those tractors, on the way to the Serbs in Lika, when in all that chaos they were still hoping for a temporary exile and a soon return home," he writes.
"Years passed, and they failed to build their lives in Serbia. On the other hand, they also refused to return. In this way, for decades they were trapped somewhere between the past and the present. Some of them never set foot in Croatia again, not even in passing."
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We are also reminded of Philip Schwarm's documentary "The Fall of Krajina", probably the best testimony of those days:
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