Near the center of town in Priština, the capital of Kosovo, there stands a monument that consists of three 70-foot high blades of concrete soaring into the sky, leaning away from one another but fused together by slim extenders, almost like afterthoughts, about four-fifths of the way up. It was built in 1961 to commemorate the antifascist fighters during World War II, and its three blades symbolized the three predominant ethnicities of the region: Albanian, Serb, and Montenegrin. It was one of the many spomeniks built by Tito's government across the country in an effort to literally concretize an image of the postwar "brotherhood and unity" that the future of Yugoslavia represented.
Brotherhood and Unity
Brotherhood and Unity
Brotherhood and Unity
Near the center of town in Priština, the capital of Kosovo, there stands a monument that consists of three 70-foot high blades of concrete soaring into the sky, leaning away from one another but fused together by slim extenders, almost like afterthoughts, about four-fifths of the way up. It was built in 1961 to commemorate the antifascist fighters during World War II, and its three blades symbolized the three predominant ethnicities of the region: Albanian, Serb, and Montenegrin. It was one of the many spomeniks built by Tito's government across the country in an effort to literally concretize an image of the postwar "brotherhood and unity" that the future of Yugoslavia represented.