Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Šapić announced today that he will submit an initiative for the construction of a monument to General Dragoljub Mihajlović in the city center.
"I think that he should finally have a monument in Belgrade, in a dignified place in the center of the city. My proposal will be the Terazijska terrace park, under the Terazijska fountain. I expect that we will get the support of the democratically oriented opposition," Šapić said at the press conference.
He added that a commission for monuments and names of squares and streets will be formed today.
"I cannot influence it publicly, nor can the City of Belgrade legally formally influence it, but I think that the removal of the tomb of Josip Broz from the Museum of Yugoslavia is an extremely important matter for the Serbian people and the future of this country. The removal of the monument to Moša Pijada is also important, To Ivo Lola Ribar, Đura Đaković and Ivan Milutinović from the Kalemegdan fortress, from the area that is our greatest cultural heritage," Šapić said.
He pointed out that it "has at least something to do with communism" and that the decision is made by the Ministry of Culture.
"We are not barbarians, unlike those same Bolsheviks and communists who scattered the bones of General Draža Mihajlović so that even today we do not know where they are, and that is why we will find a new place for people whose marks will be moved," Šapić said.
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