This spomenik is dedicated to the deaths of ethnic-Serb peasants who died fighting against the Ustaše militia in the Petrova Gora mountains, most notably during 1941 and 1942.
It opened in 1981 at a cost of £2m. At the base of the sprawling complex, a long stairway leads up to it from what was an expansive visitors centre and parking lot.
With the onset of the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s the monument fell into disrepair and was targeted and attacked by vandals. Over the subsequent decades it became completely defaced, looted and demolished, with all its historical artifacts and relics contained within its museum and archives being taken or destroyed.
Along the walkway up to the spomenik from the parking lot, halfway up is a circular granite stone altar about 2m wide. Around the top outer edge of it, there is an engraving written in both Croatian and Serbian. The engraving roughly translates to:"Within the foundation of our earned freedom is the peak of Petrova Gora, always our mother mountain."
This spomenik is dedicated to the deaths of ethnic-Serb peasants who died fighting against the Ustaše militia in the Petrova Gora mountains, most notably during 1941 and 1942.
It opened in 1981 at a cost of £2m. At the base of the sprawling complex, a long stairway leads up to it from what was an expansive visitors centre and parking lot.
With the onset of the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s the monument fell into disrepair and was targeted and attacked by vandals. Over the subsequent decades it became completely defaced, looted and demolished, with all its historical artifacts and relics contained within its museum and archives being taken or destroyed.
Along the walkway up to the spomenik from the parking lot, halfway up is a circular granite stone altar about 2m wide. Around the top outer edge of it, there is an engraving written in both Croatian and Serbian. The engraving roughly translates to:"Within the foundation of our earned freedom is the peak of Petrova Gora, always our mother mountain."
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