Yugoslav Spanish fighters

28.December 2020 Marco Fernandez

For whom the bell tolled

In a world without ideology, the story of 1800 Yugoslavs who, because of their ideals, voluntarily went to Spain to fight against fascism sounds almost incomprehensible. Each of those fates would be a novel in itself. For many Spanish fighters, the real pain began only when the republic was defeated and Spain was ruled by Franco. Those who survived enjoyed the reputation of the "Spanish elite" in socialist Yugoslavia. From this year, their descendants, as a sign of gratitude, can receive citizenship from Spain

My new year

28.December 2015 Ivan Ivanji

Salivation of fear

I remember seventy-five New Years celebrations. Here I will mention some, which seem more significant to me than others: when I poured lead with my father and threw it into the water, which in our country today is called spitting fear, when I watched lice flee from the dying, dramatized "The Pit" by Ivan Goran Kovačić , watched Peka Dapčević and Milovan Đilas, danced the waltz with his wife on the streets of Vienna

Liberation of Belgrade

14.October 2009 Philip Schwarm

Our tragic, glorious and great days

Belgrade today marks the anniversary of its liberation from German occupation in the Second World War, on the day when, on October 20, 1944, several days of heavy fighting ended. On this occasion, we bring from the archive a text by Filip Švarm, who, through documents and testimonies, reconstructs the day when partisan and Soviet units entered the city — but also the moment when the political order of the entire country changed