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The Uncomfortable Significance of Socialist Heritage

After the colapse of Yugoslavia in early 1990s, these monuments were completely abandoned, and their symbolic meanings suppressed and obliterated. Modes of public commemoration towards post WWII heritage have changed drastically and new ways to publicly deal with the old memorials tended to de-ideologize them, thus trying as well to erase the collective memory of post WWII period as explicit manifestation of the former political system and ideology. During the period between 1990 - 2000 almost the half of the total number of antifascist monuments were destroyed. However, during the recent decade a slow process of antifascist monument renovation started but only around 100 monuments have been restored, i.e. 3% of the total number. However, the existing inventory list of antifascist monuments has been made without clearly defined criteria of valorisation and many of these monuments are still not listed.

antifascist heritage, memory, socialism, conservation

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