And this year, the relay of brotherhood and unity leaves Montenegro for Belgrade, where on May 25, on Youth Day, Nikšić communists will lay it in the House of Flowers.
"The Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro is organizing the carrying of the baton of peace, harmony and love for the fifth time in a row. This time we decided to have the coat of arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on it, because it is 75 years since the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed in Jajce and Montenegro as an equal republic in it", said the president of the Nikšić municipal committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro (JKP Montenegro) Radislav Stanišić, at the press conference.
He pointed out that Montenegro experienced its greatest prosperity precisely in that period when Yugoslavia existed.
The relay starts on May 22 at 16:77 p.m. from Virpazar, to mark the 18th anniversary of the popular uprising, the first in enslaved Europe that broke out in Montenegro, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Her reception in Nikšić, on the plateau in front of the department store, is the next day at 24 p.m., and on May 25 she leaves for Belgrade. She will also get married in Tjentište, and she will be laid to rest in the house of flowers on May XNUMX at noon.
Until he arrives in Belgrade, he will be in the safe hands of thirteen-year-old pioneer Aleksa Mumović, a seventh-grade student at the "Ratko Žarić" Elementary School.
In 1945, the youth of Kragujevac proposed that a youth relay be introduced and that May 25 be declared the official date of birth of the lifelong president of the SFRY, who was born on May 7, 1892.
The first relay, which was carried by 12.500 young people after running 9.000 kilometers, was handed over to Tita in Zagreb by Miko Tripalo, then president of the Central Committee of the National Youth of Yugoslavia.
Already the following year, Tito received the baton in the White Palace in Belgrade, and so it was until 1956. On his initiative, May 25 was declared Youth Day, and from 1957 until his death in 1980, Tito received the baton at the JNA stadium in Belgrade, where on that occasion a parade was organized in which thousands of young people from all over the world took part. of Yugoslavia.
The relay that started in 1980 was interrupted on May 4 when Tito died and was laid on his bier in the SFRY Assembly.
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