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The Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) announced on Tuesday evening that the “Leviathan” movement had written “Burn in Hell” at the Tomb of the People’s Heroes in Kalemegdan, Belgrade.
The SKOJ statement says that this was done on the night of December 21-22, and that this is the fourth time in a year that the monument has been attacked by right-wing extremists.
“So far the perpetrators of this heinous act have not been found,” recalls SKOJ.
SKOJ called on all anti-fascists and patriots to join the “People’s Guards” and the organization for the protection of the Tomb of the People’s Heroes.
The tomb of the popular heroes in Kalemegdan, which was declared a cultural monument by decision of the Belgrade City Assembly in 1983, is located on the walkway under the walls of the Belgrade Fortress. It was built in 1948 and has the inscription “Death to fascism – freedom for the people”.
In that tomb were buried: Ivan Milutinović (1901-1944), member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PCY, member of the General Staff of the NOV and POJ, lieutenant general of the NOVJ and national hero Đuro Đaković (1886-1929), union worker and organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the PCY, Ivo Lola Ribar (1916-1943), secretary of the Central Committee of the SKOJ, president of the USAOJ, member of the General Staff of the NOV and POJ and national heroine, and Mosha Pijade (1890-1957) , revolutionary, sociopolitical worker and national heroine.
The remains of Ivo Lola Ribar and Ivan Milutinović were transferred to that grave on March 27, 1948, the remains of Đuro Đaković on the twentieth anniversary of his death, April 25, 1949, while Moša Pijade was buried there in March. from 1957.
The busts of Ivo Lola Ribar, Ivan Milutinović and Đuro Đaković were made in 1949 by the academic painter and sculptor Stevan Bodnarov, and the bust of Moša Pijada by the academic sculptor Slavoljub Stanković in 1959.
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