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To: Thumper1960

Here you go - this is my speedy translation of the text on the pictured monument to Gen Mihailovic, as I run out the door this morning on my way to work; my additional comments are in parenthesis:

DRAGOLJUB MIHAILOVIC
-DRAZA-
-SERBIAN UNCLE- (loosely translated meaning of “Cica”,or ‘Uncle of the Serbs’, a term of respect and endearment)

27.4.1893 to 17.7.1946

Leader of the Third Serbian Uprising -

(Historical context- calling to mind the previous historical Serbian uprisings against the Turks whom they fought on-off for 500 years of guerilla warfare)

Eternal (denizen) of the Free Serbian Mountains

First Guerilla Fighter of Europe (in WW2) and the Most Loyal Ally

Monument Placed by
Thankful Serbiandom


10 posted on 05/30/2016 7:47:17 AM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

Thanks. It seems a glowing tribute to a heroic figure


13 posted on 05/30/2016 10:06:43 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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