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Belgrade – The Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesi, sent an official proposal to the Commission for Monuments and Names of Squares and Streets of the city.
Source: Tanjug
Photo: Depositphotos, guffoto
It is proposed that monuments be erected in Belgrade to three former mayors: Milo Savi, Vlado Ilija and Branko Pei.
“I had the special honor and pleasure of, as a Belgrade citizen and deputy mayor, to make an official proposal to erect monuments to the three most famous and best mayors of the 20th century in Belgrade,” Vesi told Tanjug.
He expressed his hope that the City Assembly will accept his initiative and that Belgrade will receive monuments to Milo Savi, who was mayor in 1929 and 1930, Vlado Ilija, who was mayor from 1935 to 1939, and Branko Pei, who was mayor between 1964 and 1974.
Each of those mayors, Vesi noted, contributed in their own way to the development of Belgrade, adding that it was time to get rid of those people without whom the city today would not be what it is.
Vesi recalled that Sava was one of the richest industrialists in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who opened the “Trepa” mine, developed the Kneza Miloa street, invested in the “Dedinje” court complex, that is, he was responsible for the expansion of the city towards Senjak and Dedinje, and communal reforms and allowed the financial stabilization of the budget of the city of Belgrade.
He added that Sava was remembered for indebting his private companies to give the city of Belgrade a more favorable loan than it had until then, and that in his time Belgrade began to prosper, to coexist with other cities of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and become a modern European city. .
“Considering that Dedinje and Senjak are connected to Savia, that is, the expansion of the city in that direction, I suggested that he get a monument at the corner of Kneeza Aleksandra Karaorevi Boulevard and Putnika vojvode Boulevard,” Vesi said.
Speaking of Vlado Ilija, he claimed that he was a man whose fate, sadly, was very tragic.
Or he was mayor of Belgrade from 1935 to 1939 and in his time Belgrade became the industrial center of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and for the first time managed to be more important in terms of industrial importance than Zagreb and some other cities as well as the most populated city of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Weight.
In Ilija’s time, Vesi recalled, two bridges were built: the Branko Bridge, which was then called the King Alexander Bridge, and the Panevaki Bridge, which was later called the King Peter Bridge.
Among other things, he claimed that the New Belgrade embankment began in Ilija’s time, that Belgrade and Zemun were connected by tram, and that he planned to build a Morava in New Belgrade to build workers’ apartments for approximately half a million people.
He added that Ili was one of the richest Yugoslavs, owner of dozens of factories, mostly textiles, which were mainly concentrated around Venizelosova Street.
Workers in their factories were surrounded in the 1930s, so mothers had a place to drop off their children in factories, Vesi said.
He added that Ili built workers’ apartments for his employees and that, as the mayor of Belgrade, he gave Belgrade the land on which the zoo stands today, built it, and bought animals, including the alligator Muja, which still lives today.
“In this way he showed how much he loved his city. Unfortunately, after the Second World War he was convicted, all his assets were confiscated. He was sentenced to prison for no reason, just because he was rich and was considered a political opponent and then he would die in severe misery. But the memory of the government of Ilia remains and in this way we want to redeem ourselves and apologize for everything that happened to him in the city he loved so much and in which he invested so much, “said Vesi.
He recalled that the court had rehabilitated Ilia and that now was the time for him to get his monument in Belgrade, which, he added, would be located on Venizelosova Street, near the part of the city he was building.
When it comes to Branko Pei, Vesi said that he is undoubtedly the most successful mayor of Belgrade, if you look at the post-liberation period, adding that in her time, a woman from Belgrade, Gazela, built a road through Belgrade, the Hotel Yugoslavia.
Pei, Vesi noted, contributed a lot to Belgrade’s change and it slowly became a modern and orderly European capital.
His monument, Vesi added, will be erected in the pedestrian zone in front of the Zemun municipality.
“What these three mayors have in common, except perhaps less for Pei, is that their contemporaries really didn’t understand them. There was a lot of fabrication, for example Pei had to give a statement to the police because Gazelle has six tapes because he was considered a Today, if there were 16 tapes, it would not be enough to not talk about what the newspaper articles were like when the Belgrade woman was built, in which they said black widow and black building in the white city, “said Vesi.
He added that only when many decades passed after his death did citizens understand what kind of visionaries they were, how much they loved their city and how much they were invested, and they knew all that to make Belgrade develop.
“I am happy that I have been given the honor to propose that they obtain monuments, but these are monuments that, when erected, will be monuments for all the citizens of Belgrade, thanks to these people for what they did for the city and proof of that, as a society, sometimes we even meet with the threat of thanking someone who did something for us because today Belgrade would not be the way it is if it weren’t for these great and honorable people ”, Vesi concluded.
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