Thursday, March 9, 2006


Partisans: In the U.S. we celebrate our heroes and historic locations with roadside signs. This sign, from Centije, dates back to Communist days. It commemorates the deaths of a group of partisans (citizen soldiers) who gathered here to plot local resistance to the Nazis. If I understand the story correctly, they were discovered by the Nazis and killed at this location. Montenegro has a long history of citizens rising to respond to invaders. Notice the Communist star on the plaque.

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