Nemanja Kalezić

On the spot: Esphigmen, Sveta Gora

Since the corona virus pandemic, the inevitable question that the monk on duty at the entrance to the monastery will ask you is - have you been vaccinated... If you want to take coffee to them, you must make sure that it is in packaging that does not have a barcode printed on it, and in the conversation with the monks you can hear the story of how the pope takes on his true, reptilian form during the night and nervously walks around the Vatican palaces thinking of how to expel the true Orthodox from Esphygmen. The circumstances in which this community lives are difficult, there is no electricity, there is only one generator that supplies electricity to a lathe for cutting wood logs, and the vehicle fleet mainly consists of ancient jeeps that the Greek army received from its Anglo-Saxon allies more than half a century ago...

Nemanja Kalezić

From a fan's perspective

After the defeat

Last week we were outclassed by Olympiakos. It is neither the first nor the last time. But for the first time I watched a beloved club that has no identity. We Gravers turned out to be shit, we didn't stand up against evil and preserve the image of a club that doesn't make our lives happier, but certainly makes it more fulfilling

Nemanja Kalezić

The culture of memory

Battle for the Bride of the Adriatic

At certain moments, the scouts of the dual monarchy, who used balloons in Lepetani, seaplanes from Kumbor or were deployed on fortified observation posts, such as Radoštak, which from 1346 meters above sea level offered an ideal view of a good part of the bay, thought that the fortifications would not withstand such furious fire from Lovćen

Nemanja Kalezić

Culture of Memory: “The Seagull”

The turbulent life of a famous ship

When was the future "ship of peace" built? How did he change names and purpose? What and who did he serve in the years of the Second World War? How was the fire put out on it while the airstrikes were still going on? And then extracted from the bottom of the sea, in the post-war years, in an incredible multi-month undertaking? Who did he host among the world's statesmen? And how, in the 1990s, did it deteriorate, was sent away from Tivat with sadness, and then (was it) saved again? What is happening with him today?

Nemanja Kalezić

A culture of memory: Youth societies in the 19th century

The lifeblood of every society

The article "Overview of the State" by Jevrem Grujić was printed in Zemun in 1849 because censorship banned it in Serbia. The words dedicated to "inner liberation" are still very relevant today, and it is not at all in favor of today's "mature" generations that today's youth have to repeat them as if we are not 170 years away from the time of their origin. In short: "For internal liberation, our people must be presented: What is it as a nation, what rights should it have? - What is the government, why and by whom, and what are its limits? Tell it precisely: What does it mean for a people to live in a state and invite them to live like that too"

Nemanja Kalezić

The culture of memory

Female students in Serbia

The first girls to graduate from universities in Belgrade were Leposava Bošković and Kruna Dragojlović, both of whom graduated in 1891. By the way, Belgrade University was founded in 1905, and female students ceased to be an exception because they were formally enabled to study regularly. Before the First World War, girls made up ten percent of the student population, which was close to the European average

Nemanja Kalezić

A culture of memory: The 1962 student demonstrations over the assassination of Patrice Lumumba

Do you remember Tshombe?

During the day, the approach to the Belgian embassy was blocked. Already at 17 p.m., large groups of demonstrators, mostly students, approached the embassy, broke through the cordon of the law enforcement authorities and, after provocations by the Belgian embassy staff, attacked the very building of the diplomatic mission. Only with the arrival of new reinforcements did the forces of order establish control over the disturbances in which more than 80 people were lightly and seriously injured.

Nemanja Kalezić

The culture of memory

More than a hundred years of a form of hybrid warfare

What was written in the leaflets that different armies littered the areas of Serbia and the former Yugoslavia from 1914 to 1999? What were they used for and what effect did they have on the morale of soldiers and civilians? Finally, why the promises made in those leaflets were regularly false

Nemanja Kalezić

The culture of memory

Newspapers from "trench hair 150 meters from Bulgaria"

No matter how foreign handwritten periodicals seem to today's generations, they played a big role in preserving the morale of the participants of the First World War, especially since the initiative rarely came from the competent authorities, but the actors themselves started the papers in order not to cut short the hours of leisure and indulge in those gloomy times. It illustrates in the best way what was on their mind, what emotions prevailed and how they tried to forget about everyday life.

Nemanja Kalezić

The culture of memory

Media image of Serbia in the First World War

How and where Serbian newspapers were published from 1914 to 1918, what they wrote about and what they didn't keep silent about, what problems they had and how they solved them and, especially, why small ads were so important

Nemanja Kalezić

Steam in garlic

Nemanja Kalezić

Schooling during the First World War

Education as a pledge of a better future for society

In order not to idealize the past, we should be aware that even the ruling elite at that time was prone to corruption, nepotism and abuse of political power, but they still understood that they had to make sure that future generations were provided with education, as one of the important prerequisites for their descendants to have a more fulfilling and beautiful life and lighter. By the term "ruling elite" today we mean the will of one man, and this is one of the many causes of this state of affairs in society, which must always rest on education.

Nemanja Kalezić