Forgotten Soviet Monuments

I don’t know why this popped up on my news feed but the internet hive mind obviously knows me very well. This lovely wee photo story in the Business Insider is a fantastic illustration of building for the power of remembrance. Mostly erected at the end of the brutalist era as a reaction the socialist realism style of monument that is more familiarly associated with soviet war memorials. These monuments where pretty strange even with in context but Josip Tito, the dictator of Yugoslavian and patron of these works of art, did not want to be seen as favoring any side at that time. Now, since the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent Yugoslavic wars these monuments have fallen in to utter obscurity. Jan Kempenanaers treats the forgotten relics as art pieces for this book ‘Spomeniks’.
 Check them out below and on the above articles, I can’t stop looking at them... 

The Kosmaj monument in Serbia is dedicated to soldiers of the Kosmaj Partisan detachment from World War II.

The Kadinjača Memorial Complex commemorates those who died during the Battle of Kadinjača

This monument, authored by sculptor Miodrag Živković, commemorates the Battle of Sutjeska, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the former Yugoslavia.

This monument is dedicated to the soldiers who freed the city of Knin, Croatia from the fascists during World War II.

Designed by Croatian sculptor Dušan Džamonja in 1967, this final sculpture leaps from its scenery like something from Star Wars. This superstructure is seen by just handfuls of people, brave enough to explore the nether regions of the Balkans.