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SERBIAN VS YUGOSLAV. DESTINY OF THE GRAVES OF SERBIAN AND

20 Jul 2023

Besides that, soldiers that were part of the Bulgarian army, and earlier (at the be- ginning of the second decade of the 20th century) part of the Ottoman army, also become citizens of the Kingdom of SCS.1 Similarly, the graves of fallen soldiers from Serbia, Montene- gro, and of those who originated from Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman territories, which came to be part of the Kingdom of SCS, become. [...] Passed in April 1922, the Law on the development of our military cemeteries and graves in the homeland and abroad, as well as the graves of fallen soldiers and sailors, prisoners of war and internees, citizens of Ger- many, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, buried in our state territory confirmed and further elaborated the provisions of the Decree concerning cemeteries and graves in the country and a. [...] In documents of the Ministry of Re- ligion of the Kingdom of SCS, and later of the Ministry of Jus- tice of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (to whom the department for military graves was transferred) we can see that the term "our" was transformed (Manojlović Pintar, 2014, pp. [...] Another symbol of the clear desire of the state to make a new nation, and to unite the living and the dead, is the Mo- nument to the unknown hero. [...] The soldier that was picked to represent all the known and unknown warriors was really from the Serbian army, but the state determined that they should represent the new coun- try: the country that arose from the war efforts of the Serbian army, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and not the state which won the war, the Kingdom of Serbia.
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