Posted on 06/28/2015 4:03:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Serbia on Sunday unveiled a monument to Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo helped ignite World War I and still provokes controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans.
Hundreds of citizens attended the ceremony in central Belgrade held on the anniversary of the 1914 assassination which is also the Serbian national holiday of St. Vitus Day.
President Tomislav Nikolic described Princip—who is viewed as a terrorist by many outside Serbia—as a freedom fighter and hero. …
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Princip was neither hero nor freedom fighter. He was a criminal with the blood of millions on his hands. He does not deserve a statute, but one of him goes up while one of Robert E. Lee comes down.
What a world.
The episodes on the Khans was amazing!!! Christianity and Islam would have been wiped off the face of the earth with ease if Ghenghis Khan hadn’t died when he did.
Exactly. We should all remember that during this bleak time for America.
God wins no matter what.
Tesla fan here too. I am half Serb and my grandfather grew up in the same village as Tesla and right around the same time.
Smiljan?
No, Gospic.
Okay. I know there’s a Tesla museum in Beograd. I’d love to visit it if I take a vacation in Southern Europe. That’s neat that your Grandfather was from the same town. Did he have any stories?
Only that people from that area were fierce fighters. He was born in a cabbage patch his mother was picking cabbage, delivered him and went on picking cabbage. He came to America with practically nothing and settled in Chicago. He fought in WWI. He was the only guy in his company not to die from the flu epidemic. A team of doctors examined him to try and figure out why and he told them it was because he ate garlic. He also was singled out when they were training to bayonet kill someone. The trainees were kind of limply attacking the dummy and when it was his turn he let out a scream and stabbed the heck out of it. After that the sergeant said everyone do it like Joe. He went on to help build the railroad and had some good stories there too. After that he worked until he retired in the steel mill in Chicago. Loved freedom, hated commies.
Sounds like an awesome man. You don’t hear about men like that anymore...thanks for sharing.
When he was 84 he cut down a tree in his front yard that my dad could not even put his arms around. Grandpa used a long handsaw. He dragged the trunk by himself from the front yard to the backyard. He cut it up and burned it in his little woodstove. He drank one shot of seagrams every day, smoked all his own meat and made his own kraut. He never ate anything out of a can. Thanks for being interested.
It’s a pleasure to here such stories. Take care.
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