August 2014

Memory of this photo

I've often been asked, "What's that Star Wars thing in the back?". I first encountered these structures during a summer spent in the Balkans (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, etc.). Their official name is "Spomenik." This term refers to the many monuments erected in the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia during Tito's era. Most of these monuments, with their brutalist architecture, celebrated the patriotic war of the Yugoslav troops against the Nazi invaders.

It is written "I must not be dressed like a whore"