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15th May 2011

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Former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito commissioned sculptures in the 1960s and 70s to mark sites of WWII battles and concentration camps. Although these sites stopped being maintained due to the fall of the Soviet Union, piles of steel and concrete don’t just disappear, in fact the state of their disrepair could be argued to add to the bizarre and striking appearance of them. (via Slate Political Gabfest)

Former Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito commissioned sculptures in the 1960s and 70s to mark sites of WWII battles and concentration camps. Although these sites stopped being maintained due to the fall of the Soviet Union, piles of steel and concrete don’t just disappear, in fact the state of their disrepair could be argued to add to the bizarre and striking appearance of them.

(via Slate Political Gabfest)

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    I visited one of these outside of Belgrade a few summers ago. They are really striking memorials to a place that fought...
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