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For eight decades, there is a unique monument in the town of Morava, dedicated to the people of all religions who suffered in the period from 1912 to 1918, showing that all victims are equal, regardless of the God they believe in. As a token of appreciation from the US Embassy in Serbia, a new video was made as part of the “You are the world” campaign, which is dedicated to Čačak and this unusual building.
“Here lie the remains of 920 soldiers, about 650 are Serbs and about 260 are Czech, German and Austrian. Above the monument, the ossuary and the eternal house in the monument are the symbols of four denominations: the Orthodox and Catholic cross, the Islamic crescent and the Star of David, “said Lela Pavlović, director of the Historical Archive in Čačak, for the RINA agency.
In 1934, the people of Čačak showed that they respect the heroes who died for their freedom, not forgetting the enemy victims.
“It is a monument against war, a monument that must reconcile those people who were blood enemies for no important reason and unite them, at least in death,” historian Milos Timotijevic told RINU.
The idea of erecting the monument was started by the women of Čačak, only eight years after the end of the Great War, and the monument was discovered by the envoy of King Oskar Časki.
“On December 31, 1934, Čačak received eight representatives from the embassies of all the parties to the conflict who came to pay their respects to the victims,” said Lela Pavlović.
This monument was desecrated only once, at the beginning of World War II, when the Germans ordered the removal of the Star of David and the Islamic crescent from the monument. Both signs were renovated only in 2007 inside the Nadežda Petrović Memorial, when the monument was restored to its original appearance.
The people of Čačak still light a candle in this place in memory of the victims of all wars and warriors who died, each for their homeland.
(Kurir.rs/RINA)
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