All 650 tombstones in the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, have been destroyed overnight.
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The memorial to the fallen anti-fascist fighters of Mostar was built in 1965 by famed architect Bogdan Bogdanović.
It was featured in MoMA's recent exhibition on Yugoslav architecture. It is an exceptional place.
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For decades, the city's Croats have been on a furious rampage against the memorial, nominally bc the site on which it sits was taken by the Yu govt from the Catholic Church.
Mind you, the land was expropriated (paid for), not simply nationalized, but that is besides the point:
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Because the Croat fascists who have been desecrating the site annually for years, and who are virtually certainly to blame for this final act of destruction, leave no doubts about their true motivation.
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The graffiti are signed by the Ustaše, calling back to the Croat fascist movement, whom Hitler and Mussolini put in charge over a Nazi puppet state propped up in Croatia during WW2. Its territory included all of Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Mostar as its Catholic hub).
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^ It is these guys that the partisans buried here were fighting.
Everything connected to this traitorous fascist state is a source of permanent shame for every Croat, as it should be.
Everyone involved with celebrating it, by desecrating graves or otherwise, is an enemy.
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The damage done to the Memorial is irreparable.
It doesn't matter how hard it is to be a Croat in Bosnia today, or whatever the usual claim is.
As long as this is the kind of thing done in support of the Croat cause in Bosnia, I cannot express any sympathy with that cause.
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Update: The MoMA catalog entry on the complex by of Vanderbilt University, with photos of Bogdanović's original designs. 
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Nadam se da ce te budaletine vec od danas imati mnogo bolji i srecniji zivot sada kada su konacno resili ovaj problem
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Ma dosta mi ih je više, užasno me ovo razbijesnilo
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I wrote a blog about this exceptional monument in March 2019 (in Dutch), ending with the question "Will the monument in a few years' time be as battered as I found it in July 2017?" The answer that I expected, has unfortunately been given.
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Tragic. I used to walk through there in 2013-14. Amazing place.
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How the hell to they destroy 659 tombstones without anyone noticing?? It must've been organized by the government.
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Its called "Everyone who saw it, approved of it."
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the way the US worked during the '90s to legitimize/downplay WWII-era Croatian fascist apologia in the name of fighting Serbia (including working to whitewash contemporary Croatian atrocities like Operation Storm) resonates uncomfortably with the current US approach to Ukraine
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which isn't necessarily to imply that Milošević was in the right any more than Putin is now, but to grant a blanket presumption of benevolence and heroism to anyone opposing them will ultimately create far more long-term problems than it solves
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