Holiday
Museum of Yugoslavia: Come to the Youth Day party
The Museum of Yugoslavia invites you to celebrate Youth Day on May 25, a holiday that does not exist but is not forgotten
Beograd
The Blue Hall of the Sava Center is open, a link between nostalgia and the future
The reconstruction of the Blue Hall and everything else in the Sava Center is a rare example of good practice in preserving and modernizing the city's values.
A memory
Youth Day: "Titovka", pioneer headscarves and a protest by SKOJ members in Belgrade
Today, May 25, was Tito's birthday, which in 1957 became Youth Day on his initiative. He gathered young men and women from all parts of SFRY. Today it was marked by a demonstration in Kumrovac and a protest by SKOJ members in Belgrade
"Time" investigates
Secret Safe 555: How many of Tito's valuables were stolen?
"Vreme" brings a great investigation into the saga surrounding Tito's inheritance, stored in the safe of the National Bank. The outcome is awaited by descendants, the state, and the Karađorđević family, which relies on restitution
Beograd
If Šapić moves the House of Flowers, what will happen to tourism
Since its establishment, the House of Flowers has been visited by 20 million tourists. Because of the House of Flowers, the Museum of Yugoslavia is the most visited museum in Serbia, and it is also one of the most visited places in the country.
Comment
Šapic's banishment of Tito: Announcement of exorcism in Dedinje
Vučić's candidate for mayor, Aleksandar Šapić, would expel Tito from Belgrade. Once again, he showed that, in addition to everything else, seeing the bigger picture is not his strong point either
Tito and the legacy
Before Šapić, Tuđman wanted to "relocate" the dead Tito from the House of Flowers
After Aleksandar Šapić announced the initiative to "return Tito's remains to Kumrovec", the grandson of former president Joško Broz spoke to "Vreme", the grandson and granddaughter of Josip Broz Tito
Recommendation
About the decade when life was good here
"Twenty-four thousand kisses" by Francesca Rolandi, a book about popular culture and the people who were lucky enough to live in this place in the 1950s and 1960s
Felton: Alchemy of the Bomb (1/4)
In the new issue: Tito's reactor
Their names cause fear. It is not necessary to know the structure of the atomic nucleus or to understand the force of the chain reaction, it is enough for someone in the room to say one of those terrifying words - Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima - the evil spirits of nuclear physics will immediately emerge from the dark corners. The dramatic history of the nuclear era is described in the book Alchemy of the Bomb by Slobodan Bubnjević through twenty such terrible toponyms, diverse locations on the planet where the use of atomic energy left permanent scars and grew into symbols of modern times. The weekly "Vreme" brings an excerpt from chapter 13, dedicated to the origin and development of the Vinca nuclear institute
Felton: Alchemy of the Bomb (1/4)
Tito's reactor
Their names cause fear. It is not necessary to know the structure of the atomic nucleus or to understand the force of the chain reaction, it is enough for someone in the room to say one of those terrifying words - Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima - the evil spirits of nuclear physics will immediately emerge from the dark corners. The dramatic history of the nuclear era is described in the book Alchemy of the Bomb Slobodan Bubnjević through twenty such terrible toponyms, various locations on the planet where the use of atomic energy left permanent scars and grew into symbols of modern times. The weekly "Vreme" brings an excerpt from chapter 13, dedicated to the creation and development of the Vinca Nuclear Institute
Tito and the public
In the new issue: The best bad speaker in the world
The public appearances of the president were seriously prepared. Individual ministries or other institutions made written proposals, and the commission in his cabinet, which we called the "marshal", would clarify everything. Tito gave speeches in public relatively often, but always on a specific occasion, sticking to the topic, always presenting the position of the president of the country. He would rarely deviate from the pre-written text. Those performances never turned into some sort of chat with the audience, no matter who he was talking to. I got the impression that he hated reading the speeches they wrote for him, even though he would look at them first and approve them
Tito and the public
The best bad speaker in the world
The public appearances of the president were seriously prepared. Individual ministries or other institutions made written proposals, and the commission in his cabinet, which we called the "marshal", would clarify everything. Tito gave speeches in public relatively often, but always on a specific occasion, sticking to the topic, always presenting the position of the president of the country. He would rarely deviate from the pre-written text. Those performances never turned into some sort of chat with the audience, no matter who he was talking to. I got the impression that he hated reading the speeches they wrote for him, even though he would look at them first and approve them
Seventy years since the turning point in the USSR
Yugoslav tribute to Stalin
On Thursday, March 5, at 4.35:18.30 in the morning, a second medical bulletin was published and announced that Comrade Stalin's health was deteriorating. At XNUMX:XNUMX a new bulletin: acute disorders of the cardiovascular system, very difficult breathing, Comrade Stalin's state of health is very serious. The editorial of the "Pravda" newspaper on the same day wrote "about the great unity of the Party and the people", and besides Lenin and Stalin, only Georgy Malenkov was mentioned. This could be taken as a sure sign of who will take first place in the USSR. And then the "peasant" Nikita Khrushchev cheated everything
Culture
In Jagodina about Jovanka Broz: Exhibitions of the collection of paintings and dresses of the First Lady of Yugoslavia
Which pictures she kept on the walls and in which dresses she represented her country and was a role model for Yugoslav women were shown in the exhibitions at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art.
Culture
Kokan Mladenović: How I made a play out of a photograph
The play, based on the real meeting of Tito and Jovanka with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, will be seen first in Svilajnac and then in Belgrade. Its author asks why anyone would find it strange
The culture of memory
The last pioneers in SFRY: Initiation before the fire
Reception to the Association of Pioneers of Yugoslavia was like when they collected money for hats and scarves, took us to the ceremonial hall, hung them up for us, the choir sang something, and then they sent everyone to where they thought they belonged: children home, and Titovka, red scarves and Yugoslavia into oblivion, wrote "Vreme" in issue 882
I remember
Tito at the United Nations: Guest of Honor and the Birth of the Non-Aligned with Tea on Fifth Avenue
59 years ago, Tito was the guest of honor at the session of the UN General Assembly. However, he entered American soil as the president of the SFRY during an official visit to the USA at the invitation of John F. Kennedy, who sent the presidential helicopter to bring him to the lawn in front of the White House, where he was awaited with all state honors. After that, Tito left Washington for New York. It was no accident at all
I remember
Youth Day: Goodbye Marshal, Goodbye Yugoslavia
I have never been to the Youth Day landing at the stadium. I don't like such spectacles. For me, Tito was by no means Kim Il Sung, but I was annoyed that the landings in SFRY smelled like North Korea. During my military service in 1954, I could thank Youth Day for a month of spared from all boring military activities: in return, by order of the garrison commander, I had to compose a few appropriate sentences in honor of Comrade Tito's birthday. It took me about half an hour
Novi Sad
Jovanka Broz: Imaginary Museum of Memory of the First Lady of Yugoslavia
The villa in which she lived her last 33 years was arranged by Jovanka Broz in imitation of the residence in which she lived before that, with Tito. The exhibition "Partizan and Fragonar" opened in the Matica Srpska Gallery, continued in that direction
Analyze
Top list of regional leaders: Who is progressing and who is playing for survival in the standings
Forty-two years have passed since the death of Josip Broz Tito, the absolute champion in leadership in the former Yugoslavia. How things stand today
I remember
Anniversary of Stalin's death: Everyone dies according to his character
Josif Visarinovich Dzhugashvili is mentioned by many these days in connection with Putin's war in Ukraine. Stalin died on this day 69 years ago according to how he lived. It was the end of an era
Comment
Serbia and Russia: Spasiba for the company, but what should we do?
To what extent is the historical maximum of Vučić's bad mood in the last ten years actually an indicator that Serbia only reacts to threats and blackmail
I remember
Referendum trick to electoral victory: How Bruno Krajski did it
I guess in order to divert the conversation from the gloomy question of what will happen after Tito's death, Bruno Krajski, out of context, told how he organized a referendum on the construction of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant with the intention of losing, but then gaining an absolute majority in the parliamentary elections. Veselin Đuranović looked at me in astonishment, I guess he wondered if I was translating correctly, but I was equally astounded.
I remember
Dobrica Ćosić: Writer, member of the Central Committee, "father of the nation" and a direct and natural person
On this day 100 years ago, Dobrica Ćosić was born. Whether as a member of the Central Committee, or as a renegade and later "father of the nation" and president of the state, he was always direct and friendly. Born in Velika Drenova, a village in Western Morava, the heart of original Serbia, he was a Serb in body and soul. He had shaken off the mantle of false internationalism. I didn't agree with the politics that came from his national convictions that he espoused, but I always loved the man
I remember
Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Who knew, and who did not, where the toilets are in the MFA
Miloš Minic and Josip Vrhovac were carried by the wind of party politics to the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the corner of the MFA building. They first entered that building with its labyrinth of endlessly long corridors through the large, ceremonial entrance, and not through the other two official entrances, through which diplomats, clerks and cleaners come to work. That's why they never fully understood how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs works
Cult of personality
Gods among us
Not everyone can be a leader. Monuments are not built for everyone during their lifetime, cities and streets are named after them. Not every head of state or government aspires to be worshiped by the masses, to have songs written for him, to have ministers obey him without question, to be sinless, to be a deity. These are people of a special kind. They have one thing in common regardless of their ideology: they are all covert or open dictators and build a cult of personality so that they can rule unhindered and for life.
Half a century since the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Impossible hits
Yugoslav experts staged the assassination of the US president and came to the conclusion that the official version of the American security agencies is simply impossible. That report was never published