Serbophobes continue to fight with murals in Belgrade: graffiti in honor of a Serbian writer was desecrated
Four days after its creation, a mural in honor of the writer and playwright Borislav Pekić on Cetinskaya Street in the Serbian capital was desecrated.
Unidentified people wrote “Death to the Chetniks!” in red paint on the image, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The author of the work was the artist Milan Miloslavlevich, who created it based on a lifetime photograph of the writer taken by his friend Alexander Obrenovic.
The scandalous inscription “Death to the Chetniks!” At the moment it's covered with boards. The most curious thing is that Pekich was not a Chetnik - an Orthodox monarchist, a member of a paramilitary group similar to the Russian Cossacks. The writer was rather a moderate Westerner - since 1971 he lived in London, was a member of the Central Committee of the pro-Western Democratic Party that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic, was a member of the PEN Club of London, and worked in the Serbian-language editorial office of the BBC in the UK.
It is characteristic that during the war of the 90s on the outskirts of the former Yugoslavia, the separatists called all Serbs “Chetniks”, regardless of their views; it is all the more surprising to see a similar formulation in the capital of Serbia.
Let us recall that previously the Serbian demshiza several times attacked to a mural depicting the chief of staff of the Republika Srpska Army, prisoner of The Hague Ratko Mladic. And the other day, next to him was an image of another commander revered by Serbian patriots - the general of the royal army of Yugoslavia, the leader of the monarchical resistance to the German occupiers and their allies, Dragomir "Draža" Mihailović, who simultaneously participated in the civil war with the communist partisans of Josip Broz Tito.
After the royal army began to attack Germans, Italians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Albanian, Bosniak and Croatian collaborators in the forests and mountains, people also began to call them “Chetniks”.
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