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Memory Crash Square

Without moving the place in the shade, tourists can hear stories and see signs of three different times in the heart of Pristina. History of conquest and liberation. Koha Ditore writes today about the Turkish and Yugoslav architectural influence.

But also for the insurgent movement of the end of the twentieth century led by the Kosovo Liberation Army. The square is named after its main hero, Adem Jashari. He remembers the "Brotherhood-Union" of Yugoslavia dominated by Serbia, which he broke with the start of the wars in the nineties. After the Second World War, Tito's Yugoslavs demolished the Old Bazaar of the time of the Ottoman Empire with the motto "destroy the old to build the new" in the name of false "brotherhood-unity", which took hold with the death of the dictator.

The three-pillar memorial and the eight partisans - colored with the flags of Western countries that helped liberate Kosovo - located between the buildings of the Assembly of Kosovo and the Municipality of Pristina symbolize the communist period... (You can read the full article in today's issue of Koha Ditore )

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