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Abandoned Yugoslovian War Monument (i.imgur.com)

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[–][deleted] 1025 points1026 points ago

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A monument can't be abandoned. It's a monument. It's just supposed to be there.

[–]hilo 304 points305 points ago

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Whoever took this picture was accomplishing the monuments purpose at that moment.

[–]I_saw_this_on_4chan 163 points164 points ago

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You build something, so even when you forget, it will be there to remind you... That is the purpose, to survive abandonment.

[–]OtisDElevator 35 points36 points ago

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I still think that a zombie fortress in the background would complete the feeling of abandonment.

[–]compache 19 points20 points ago

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I am WAITING(yells) for a link PEOPLE...

[–]godgoo 216 points217 points ago*

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this?

http://i.imgur.com/DMBJs.jpg

[–]VictoryGin 38 points39 points ago

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Dethklok concert? :D

[–]compache 8 points9 points ago

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Omg well done ! slow clap

[–]vedran_ 179 points180 points ago

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Here you go.

[–]compache 15 points16 points ago

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Well I will upvote you because your a nice guy but I was hoping for a link to the OP's picture with a zombie fortress in the background.

[–]otdq 8 points9 points ago

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There is some serious humour here. We gotta cut him some slack - only 6 days. :D

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          [–]this_is_weird 110 points111 points ago*

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          I don't know. If you stop cleaning, maintaining, and restoring a monument, I suppose you could call it abandonned.

          I suppose this is what this is about here, but I don't really know anythign about Yugoslavia.

          EDIT: please stop telling me Yugoslavia doesn't exit anymore ffs. I know that, but its the word in the OP and I'm not gonna guess which country it's in right now.

          [–]flaarg 18 points19 points ago

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          Wouldn't that in a sense give more meaning to the monument?

          I used to live by a Civil War battlefield and the most thought provoking monuments were not those that are still cleaned and maintained, but the ones covered in plants and hidden. We made a monument to honor those who died. What does it mean to those we honored that we forgot about their monument?

          [–]Grozni 28 points29 points ago

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          After the fall of the Yugoslavian socialist regime in early 90's people were destroying every simbol of past times. Many monuments were destroyed during that time, so you could consider an "abandoned" one lucky. I remember a satyrical coment in some daily newspapers from that time: "Being a fallen hero is the worst thing possible. First, you're dead. Then they build an ugly monument to honor you... and then they blow it up."

          [–]peegee42 2 points3 points ago

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          people were destroying every symbol of past times

          This is a pretty strong statement. I don't know where you live, but in Serbia that wasn't the case.. I remember one Tito monument being tucked away, and some, mostly mad people did advocate 'cleaning the slate', but it never became practice. Destroying part of the history would be barbaric.

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              [–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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              It's a monument to monuments that that monument still stands.

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                [–][deleted] ago*

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                [–][deleted] 75 points76 points ago*

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                Doesn't mean none of us were born there. I'm guessing if this gets frontpaged that you'll encounter at least two.

                If you were born in Yugoslavia, report in here please?

                *-already got five, one hour after making this post. Yugoslavians; fuck yea.

                **-OKAY I've now received better than 50 replies from you Yugos. Did you know that there is a subreddit for you folks that has no content and has been up for several years? You guys should get on that. Show us a little of the culture, and about your lives in the area formerly known as.

                [–]jugoslavia 57 points58 points ago

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                reporting for duty

                [–]CRASH147 29 points30 points ago

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                Croat reporting in

                [–]djunta 25 points26 points ago

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                Serb, ready.

                [–]ImStillLurking 19 points20 points ago

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                Macedonian singing in.

                [–]JinanReddit 16 points17 points ago

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                Macedonia.... 12 points!

                [–]OmegaVesko 10 points11 points ago

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                Serb, standing by.

                [–]Igby_pepper 9 points10 points ago

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                croat standing by...3...2...1...fight hehe. pozdrav svima :D

                [–][deleted] ago*

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                [–]brosup 7 points8 points ago

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                I'm half Serb, does that count?

                [–]smekas 21 points22 points ago

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                Bosanac, late as always!

                [–]JATION 8 points9 points ago

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                Croat.

                [–]toolatka 6 points7 points ago

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                It's me - Montenegrin, that is late as always... you know, laziness and stuff...

                [–]whitewarrior 7 points8 points ago

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                Another Bosnian checking in

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                  [–]betterinslowmotion00 4 points5 points ago

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                  Im first generation Australian!

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                      [–]DJasko 14 points15 points ago

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                      Not Croat, Not Serb, Not Bosnian, Not anything. Just a fucking loser in Norway. Wherever I go I'm a foreigner. Please bring back my country :)

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                        [–]nilenilemalopile 21 points22 points ago

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                        1983 Yugoslavia, Croatia.

                        Last generation of pioneers

                        [–]antena 13 points14 points ago

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                        1983 here too. They cancelled the pioneer program 2 months before I was to become one. I cried. Sister gave me her hat and scarf, and I pledged in front of my whole family that I shall study and work hard, respect my parents and elders, that I shall be a faithful and honest friend... I uphold these words to this day and feel very strongly about it. Kids today just don't do anything so meaningful at that age, if ever.

                        [–]Amadan 6 points7 points ago

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                        I am old enough to have been a pioneer. Oath and all. No-one in my class thought it was meaningful, we all thought it was a boatload of crap and a waste of time.

                        I incidentally do uphold the tenets of the oath; always have. Incidentally. Not because of the stupid oath, but because I want to be a good person. Jerks will be jerks, whatever oath you make them repeat. Education should be more than an evening's worth of ceremony.

                        I will bet that you too "uphold these words" because your parents taught you right, not because someone stuck a blue cap on your head and made you recite an incantation.

                        [–]antena 5 points6 points ago

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                        I do agree with you on the parents thing. But because the way I am, and the way I was raised, I hold the memory of it very dear, maybe because it was recited in a close circuit of family members looking at me with great pride and joy, maybe not. I know the oath by heart, I never forgot the words. I like to think that most of people who became pioneers and didn't appreciate the oath at the time, got to the point in their life where they started to appreciate it because of it's simple and well being nature. And if they never appreciated it, I'll still think and believe the same way, just because the pioneer oath was one of many, many things telling me that being nice, trustful and loyal is the way to go. It just so happens that it was one of the earliest and most memorable of those things.

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                          [–]Deusdies 8 points9 points ago

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                          PIONIRI MALENI!!!

                          [–]cholt45 4 points5 points ago

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                          As far as i remember the year of 82 were the last pioneers.

                          [–]nilenilemalopile 4 points5 points ago

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                          depends on when you started to go to elementary school. Finished first grade in 1990 (started in 1989). Also, i still learned Cyrillic letters in elementary.

                          [–]SierraEcho 2 points3 points ago

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                          I found my old pioneer photo not so long ago. Nostalgia hit me like a ton of bricks.

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                            [–]milfshake 17 points18 points ago

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                            Reporting. Born in what is current day Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

                            [–]lyra23 18 points19 points ago

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                            Reporting in, captain soquid.

                            [–]unofficialopposition 15 points16 points ago

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                            Reporting live far away from home. Fuck nostalgia :(

                            [–]Vlado977 15 points16 points ago*

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                            Here (Croatia) Rijeka

                            [–]TheSmarach 16 points17 points ago

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                            Reporting in!

                            Btw, I've seen that article being posted many, many times, on tons of different sites, and I've seen this monument IRL. It looks fantastic

                            [–]ManaSmoker 16 points17 points ago

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                            Here.

                            [–]sn0w-man 14 points15 points ago

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                            Macedonia, 2 years after independence. Still counts?

                            [–]thebballkid 9 points10 points ago

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                            копиљ :)

                            [–]ImStillLurking 2 points3 points ago

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                            Пеер :)

                            [–]SpearThruster 3 points4 points ago

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                            Апаш :)

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                            [deleted]

                            [–]alexm90 2 points3 points ago

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                            Zdravo!

                            [–]kavgirl 13 points14 points ago

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                            You rang?

                            [–]muuh-gnu 12 points13 points ago

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                            Tito's pioneer reporting.

                            [–]rio972 13 points14 points ago

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                            1972, Koper (YU)

                            [–]Suspected 12 points13 points ago

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                            Reporting... _^

                            [–]h00s 11 points12 points ago

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                            Sorry I'm late, captain.

                            [–]imstah 11 points12 points ago

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                            Yugoslavia (Croatia) reporting

                            Edit: born 1988

                            [–]madanan 10 points11 points ago

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                            pioneer's greeting here.

                            [–]cuddlesy 12 points13 points ago

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                            Sarajevo born and raised, friend. Right before the war.

                            [–]spoonany 17 points18 points ago

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                            Born in Yugoslavia, we gained independence 2 years later though. Still counts!

                            [–]SierraEcho 8 points9 points ago

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                            Sir yes sir!!!!!!!

                            [–]zkojic 8 points9 points ago

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                            Add one more to the list.

                            [–]prometheus021 8 points9 points ago

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                            Reporting in! Born in Vojvodina, Novi Sad in 1984

                            [–]ewyll 8 points9 points ago

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                            Reporting.

                            [–]crossower 8 points9 points ago

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                            Reporting for duty. Seems like there's quite a few of us actually.

                            [–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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                            Jesus, you aren't kidding. I posted the request to "report in," kind of not expecting there'd be very many. This morning I wake up and my inbox has 44 messages, and most of them are responses to this.

                            Unfortunately, I am not Yugo. Many folks seem to think I am. I kind of wish I was now.

                            [–]XenonBG 8 points9 points ago

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                            Reporting! Born and raised in the capital :)

                            [–]16horsepowered 8 points9 points ago

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                            One more oldie (76) from Slavonia reporting :)

                            [–]vedran_ 8 points9 points ago

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                            Born is Sarajevo, live in Zagreb

                            [–]FiveDollarShake 22 points23 points ago

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                            I was born in 1989. Yugoslavia.

                            We usually go Jugoslavia. Not many of us called ourselves Jugoslavs or Jugoslavians though. Just Serbs, Croats, Bosnians etc. Yugoslavia basically meant a home for all the slavs.

                            [–]bozho 19 points20 points ago

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                            Southern Slavs, to be exact :)

                            [–]TentacleFace 11 points12 points ago

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                            the best kind. Slivovitz anyone?

                            [–]spiderpig555 2 points3 points ago

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                            Relevant

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                                [–]dodje 9 points10 points ago

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                                beautiful :(( I feel the same way. Before the break up I honestly thought the majority referred to itself as Yugoslavian, not only 20% :/ I was born in France so I'm "French" but I still often say "yugoslavian" instead of croat/serb/bosanac... And French people tell me "why do you say yugoslavian? it doesn't exist anymore!". What do they care?... so I'm forced to correct myself...I think I won't anymore :) so I agree 100% with you. upvote

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                                    [–]imitation78 6 points7 points ago

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                                    Hi. Reporting in.

                                    [–]bathman 5 points6 points ago

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                                    Croatia reporting in from Helsinki

                                    [–]fritula 7 points8 points ago

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                                    Yup, another one...

                                    [–]AnomalyAnn 7 points8 points ago

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                                    reporting for duty, sir!

                                    [–]Ludishomi 6 points7 points ago

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                                    Hello

                                    [–]miran1 6 points7 points ago

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                                    here

                                    [–]peegee42 5 points6 points ago

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                                    prisutan!

                                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                                    Sjedi, 5!

                                    [–]sapo916 12 points13 points ago

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                                    '89 Bosnian born here, all redditor girls from the region are welcome to say hello :). I keep it secular baby, no worries.

                                    [–]Teognis 4 points5 points ago

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                                    Here, Sir! What is our mission, Sir?

                                    [–]tehziggy 5 points6 points ago

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                                    Reporting in from slovenia !!

                                    [–]TentacleFace 5 points6 points ago*

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                                    Belgrade born. check in from Seoul. Give me your american blue jeans and may god shit in your socks. Korean Soju is for pussies, let me at that Slivovitz.

                                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                                    Ha ha! You are truly an international man of mystery.

                                    [–]HuruHara 5 points6 points ago

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                                    Oh man, if Yugoslavia existed today, it would have one of the best football team ever.

                                    [–]Waywards 4 points5 points ago

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                                    Mostar, B&H

                                    1989

                                    [–]papilova 8 points9 points ago

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                                    Tko nostalgira, masturbira. Džast sejing.

                                    [–]Katlix 3 points4 points ago

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                                    Reporting in. I was actually born pretty close to the monument in the sixth picture.

                                    [–]rospaya 3 points4 points ago

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                                    Od Vardara pa do Triglava....

                                    [–]clickity-click 3 points4 points ago

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                                    zdravo.

                                    hungover, sleepy serb checking in for duty.

                                    sir.

                                    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                                    Your duty for today is to grab a glass of water or other means of hydrating yourself, and then describe the events of last night to me.

                                    Then free time for the rest of the day.

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                                      [–]johnnybrochill 12 points13 points ago

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                                      This is better than porn

                                      [–]Amadan 29 points30 points ago

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                                      Currently Croatian. Was Yugoslav 20 years ago.

                                      The monument was built in Yugoslavia, to memorialise the anti-fascist battle of the WW2 and celebrate the Yugoslav values, paid by Yugoslavia, so saying it's a Yugoslav monument is quite correct.

                                      [–]EmpRupus 7 points8 points ago

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                                      Historic, Modern Art or Futuristic?

                                      Mind=Blown

                                      [–]fredyybob 13 points14 points ago

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                                      much more interesting abstract art than the shit we have in chicago

                                      [–]MLBM100 10 points11 points ago

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                                      You mean you don't like looking at Marilyn Monroe's snatch?

                                      [–]istiophorus 3 points4 points ago

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                                      That's pretty concrete to me…

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                                        [–]iams3b 7 points8 points ago

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                                        I like "Brezovica," the one still using cloak

                                        [–]rapeme123 3 points4 points ago

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                                        Wrong, this is Brezovica.

                                        Pic in your post is from Kamenska

                                        [–]dgpx84 2 points3 points ago

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                                        "still using cloak"?

                                        [–]WorldGroove 2 points3 points ago

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                                        StarTrek reference.... cloak was a way to turn invisible.

                                        iams3b is implying he sees nothing in that picture; combined with the fact that most of these look like spacecrafts you'd see in Sci-Fi, that pic with pretty much only trees/bushes makes a StarTrek-fan think there's some spaceship cloaked there.

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                                            [–]imitation78 16 points17 points ago

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                                            I'd just like to point out that at least one of the monuments is not abandoned. The one at Kruševo is still operational and I visited it in 2006. From the way it was cared for back then, I don't think it was closed down in the meantime (I could be wrong).

                                            And while we're at it, the Kruševo monument is actually pretty cool in real life. You can enter it and there are some pretty nice stained glass windows inside. A couple of pics I took:

                                            http://imgur.com/a/5C5Uk

                                            [–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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                                            I would love to stumble across those in a post-apocalyptic world

                                            [–]GrandMasterMara 5 points6 points ago

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                                            Those monuments look like something you will find on other planets lol

                                            [–]CtrlAltDemolish 4 points5 points ago

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                                            Now that is how you commemorate an event.

                                            [–]darth_hater 4 points5 points ago

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                                            Those are pretty bad ass looking. Too bad they aren't in better repair.

                                            [–]I_saw_this_on_4chan 2 points3 points ago

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                                            these all look like friggin' spaceships.

                                            [–]cholt45 4 points5 points ago

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                                            Jug = South & Slavia ~= Slavs So it very roughly translates as State of Southern slavs ~ SouthernSlavia :D

                                            [–]lazydictionary 2 points3 points ago

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                                            Here's some info on the photographer.

                                            [–]Amadan 3 points4 points ago

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                                            And here some info on the artist (in Italian; Google Translate works fine if you can't read it), and here on his art (in Croatian, and again Google Translate is not too horrible).

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                                              [–]cpxh 129 points130 points ago

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                                              When did Yugoslavia have an intergalactic war to build a monument about?

                                              [–]MONDARIZ 42 points43 points ago

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                                              You didn't know?

                                              [–]aminaked 25 points26 points ago

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                                              It's in 2056, right?

                                              [–]croutonicus 1 point2 points ago

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                                              It appears Reddit makes the time pass faster than i thought.

                                              [–]alreadytakenusername 10 points11 points ago*

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                                              We don't know if it's built by aliens.

                                              So it's built by aliens.

                                              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                                              Would make an interesting science fiction story.

                                              "All hail our glorious Fleet Commander Josip Broz Tito!"

                                              [–]TheYaMeZ 79 points80 points ago

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                                              Its a hyperspace core! It will take us back to our homeworld!

                                              [–]Lachlan91 11 points12 points ago

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                                              http://i.imgur.com/sYup8.jpg

                                              [–]roboticWanderor 7 points8 points ago

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                                              FLEET COMMAND ONLINE

                                              [–]Saan 5 points6 points ago

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                                              A Homeworld comment was the top last time this was posted, reddit is slipping or getting better, I am not sure which.

                                              [–][deleted] 10 points11 points ago

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                                              CAME HERE JUST TO FIND THIS

                                              [–]Lusankya 2 points3 points ago

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                                              Say it louder, why don't ya? It's not like the last guys to find a core on their world had their atmosphere combusted.

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                                                [–]Onionania 34 points35 points ago

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                                                The alternate TIE fighter designs in the EU are getting pretty ridiculous...

                                                [–]Alex011 2 points3 points ago

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                                                'erm, boss, project tie-fighters gone over budget' "god dammit! mount it as a monument to your stupidity"

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                                                  [–]CrossUp 137 points138 points ago

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                                                  Magnemite FTW!

                                                  =-(○)-=

                                                  [–]Metadragon 61 points62 points ago

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                                                  (╯°□°）╯︵ =-(○)-=

                                                  WHAT THE HELL

                                                  [–]Woman_Tamer 73 points74 points ago

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                                                  It's not very effective...

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                                                    [–]cafezinho 19 points20 points ago

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                                                    Abandoned? Do people live in monuments?

                                                    [–]MONDARIZ 11 points12 points ago

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                                                    Trolls live inside the stone.

                                                    [–]Seamannator 13 points14 points ago

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                                                    The files are in the computer.

                                                    [–]deltabishop 4 points5 points ago

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                                                    Abandoned, in the sense that it appears run down and not well maintained.

                                                    [–]SkepticalPanda 8 points9 points ago

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                                                    I think one of the main reasons I'd love to be obscenely rich and powerful is that my wealth would allow me to secretly build shit like this all over the place and confuse the hell out of future generations.

                                                    [–]Canuckhead 6 points7 points ago

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                                                    what an amazing sculpture.

                                                    I mean Im an uncultured philistine boob but that thing looks awesome.

                                                    kinda creepy looking.

                                                    [–]GrandHarbler 26 points27 points ago

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                                                    I personally think this is the most effective of them all, but what really gets me is that every time a country becomes the villain on an international stage, we lose the expectation that anything of beauty could come from that place.

                                                    [–]muuh-gnu 15 points16 points ago*

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                                                    country becomes the villain on an international stage

                                                    Yugoslavia didnt actually attack somebody else in order to be promoted to a villain. It was a federation of states, similar to the US, and broke up violently into dozens of economically non-viable but ethnically clean microstates, aka Balkanization. Yugoslavia didnt go down into history as a villain, but as a crazy case of sudden outbreak of mental illness, violence and self-mutilation, after half a century of relative prosperity in the middle of the EU. It was more a zombie movie (like "28 days later") than a villain movie.

                                                    [–]tdolbash 12 points13 points ago

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                                                    That monument's actually a couple miles away from the OP one. When they fired up the hidden lazer the first time, it blasted a hole into a mountain and they carved away the rest of it into this monument.

                                                    [–]sharktail17 6 points7 points ago

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                                                    Visited it last Saturday. It's nice and clean. Image 1 - Image 2

                                                    [–]CommunistAccounts 7 points8 points ago

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                                                    I agree, that is the most beautiful monument I have ever seen. I think it means more when it isn't surrounded by a well maintained park and doesn't have hundreds of tourists around it.

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                                                      I wish more war memorials were like this

                                                      [–]netgod2002 4 points5 points ago*

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                                                      They should have a rave here. That'd be sweet.

                                                      [–]MONDARIZ 17 points18 points ago

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                                                      Socialist art ftw!

                                                      [–]SonOfDenny 18 points19 points ago

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                                                      Some civilization a couple thousand years in the future is going to run across some of these and scratch their heads trying to figure out what the hell these things are for. I bet they'll make the assumption that they were some kind of alter to their gods or some hair-brain idea like that.

                                                      [–]croutonicus 2 points3 points ago

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                                                      I really can't see this happening anymore, considering the detail of information humans now keep and store. There is probably some underground vault that wikipedia backs up to every year, at least that's how i like to think of it ;)

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                                                        [–]doomsniper 4 points5 points ago

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                                                        Since when did they manage to get their hands on a hyperspace core?

                                                        [–]Benzur 5 points6 points ago

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                                                        Why does this structure look so beautiful to me?

                                                        [–]uzimnbvc 3 points4 points ago

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                                                        Thorough post about the project ‘spomenik’ by jan kempenaers from Art Blart

                                                        This project has been published by Roma Publications

                                                        Link

                                                        and there is an online preview of the book

                                                        Link

                                                        make sure you make it full screen

                                                        [–]ThereAreNoMoreNames 2 points3 points ago

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                                                        This is going to confuse the heck out of historians hundreds of years from now lol

                                                        [–]xyroclast 2 points3 points ago

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                                                        What does it represent? Is it just supposed to be modern art? Notice the asymmetry.

                                                        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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                                                        most of it is futurism from after ww2, some artist like dusan dzamonja built this stuff. i find myself often apriciating what he does but , different people different tastes.

                                                        [–]coolmatel 2 points3 points ago

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                                                        A Prothean ruin appears on your scanners...

                                                        [–]Taikun 3 points4 points ago

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                                                        I'm not saying it was aliens...

                                                        ...but it was aliens.

                                                        [–]specialiscool 3 points4 points ago

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                                                        There quite obviously Dharma stations pre all the tropical island shit going down

                                                        [–]vedran_ 3 points4 points ago

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                                                        This was done by a famous sculptor, Dušan Džamonja. It was built to commemorate WWII battles. Here are some more. If you want to know more, search Wikipedia for mentioned sculptor.

                                                        [–]Goof1232 2 points3 points ago

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                                                        Woah that's beautiful.. the disperfection gets me

                                                        [–]rico99 12 points13 points ago

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                                                        I was there back in 1980. Beautiful women, friendly people. I speak English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and some French. Whores spoke more languages than me... I did not speak Russian or German. LOL. I loved the place! Shame it disintegrated...

                                                        [–]dangelica679 14 points15 points ago

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                                                        0:07

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                                                          [–]pseudolobster 14 points15 points ago

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                                                          http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Magnemite

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                                                          [–]pseudolobster 5 points6 points ago

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                                                          I didn't have any cool ascii art to go with it. I accept my fate.

                                                          [–]KamikazeKing 2 points3 points ago

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                                                          lol, glad i'm not the only one that saw this right away.

                                                          [–]vallav111 8 points9 points ago

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                                                          Was in Serbia recently, shit is pretty bad there economically.

                                                          [–]hitchhiker999 4 points5 points ago

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                                                          I'm there now (Brit), people don't have much money but they seem to be out regularly with family, friends at parties and bbq's and what-not - seems like they're doing better off than my friends back in Europe.

                                                          [–]JB_UK 6 points7 points ago

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                                                          Maybe they just have their priorities straight.

                                                          [–]mikizez 6 points7 points ago

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                                                          Because Serbia is in Africa...

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                                                            [–]peegee42 2 points3 points ago

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                                                            like anywhere else right now..

                                                            [–]casual_shoggoth 4 points5 points ago

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                                                            No no, it is Death Stars, yes? Very good! Big laser!

                                                            [–]thebuccaneersden 6 points7 points ago

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                                                            Looks like right out of Twilight Princess or Ico or something.

                                                            [–]DukeOfGeek 29 points30 points ago

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                                                            It's not abandoned, some one mows the grass there, almost as often as it gets posted here.

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                                                            [–]nnth 19 points20 points ago

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                                                            Ignore that guy, hardly anyone will have seen it because most people don't sit on Reddit 24/7 waiting for a re-post just so they can shout "re-post".

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                                                              [–]jamessays 4 points5 points ago

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                                                              Well, maybe "abandoned" is too harsh of a word. But certainly, it can be said that no one bothers to send it letters on its birthday or call it up every now and then to see how it is doing.

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                                                                [–]Rly_Do_Not_Want 16 points17 points ago

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                                                                I CAN ONLY SEE GOATSE HELP

                                                                [–]tube_radio 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                This is pretty awesome!

                                                                [–]NocturnalGamer 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                That thing looks awesome

                                                                [–]kabukistar 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                I want to go to there.

                                                                [–]emdan 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Looks like the Twilight Realm lost one of their artifacts.

                                                                [–]robotwarlord 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                love it.

                                                                [–]KingGorilla 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                I feel like it can shoot a giant laser

                                                                [–]Gordopolis 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Who's doing the landscaping? Looks pretty good for being "abandoned"

                                                                [–]tsxy 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/25-abandoned-soviet-monuments-that-look.html

                                                                [–]rio972 3 points4 points ago

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                                                                Not Soviet.

                                                                [–]baconisgoodforme 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Reminds me of the end of Halo 3. RIP Master Chief.

                                                                [–]sixofdiamonds 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                This somehow brings the monument from "Behind enemy lines" to mind, even though they're completely different.

                                                                [–]silentE 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Fucking Epic!!!

                                                                [–]lessplasticplease 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                "Come at me, bro. Please :("

                                                                [–]Damaband41 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                I didn't realize there was a whole monument dedicated to Magnemite.

                                                                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Is...is that a hyperspace core?

                                                                [–]varietygamer 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                It's not abandoned.

                                                                And it's 'yugoslav war monument'

                                                                [–]TentacleFace 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                looks like a half buried angel from Evangelion

                                                                [–]Soviet_Waffle 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                It looks alien, almost otherworldly. As if it was built long time ago, in a galaxy far away...

                                                                [–]vonshavingcream 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                someone needs to minecraft this...

                                                                [–]TheContortionist 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Relevant

                                                                [–]Chaotik19 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                Reminds me of the torso section of A Mad Cat MK II... now where did I put my Mech Warrior 4 disc...

                                                                [–]velidb 2 points3 points ago

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                                                                I live 30 minutes from this. I shall invade it soon!

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