O NEKIM ASPEKTIMA OBILJEŽAVANJA HISTORIJSKIH DOGAĐAJA I LIČNOSTI SARAJEVA (U PROŠLOSTI I SADAŠNJOSTI)
SOME REFLECTIONS ON MARKING HISTORICAL EVENTS AND PERSONALITIES OF SARAJEVO (PAST AND PRESENT)

Summary/Abstract: “We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.” (HESIOD) We are all travellers in time, able to go back and forth in the past, skipping certain periods, returning to others - but there is no point in avoiding the truth, in erasing the truth of the 1365 days of the siege and defence of Sarajevo, without water, power or food. Why do we keep quiet? It is a proven fact that a few, very poorly armed people can hold out against a much more powerful aggressor when they know what they are fighting for and are willing to make immense sacrifices in order to survive, even when the aggression initiated by Belgrade and Zagreb was backed by certain great European powers. There are no objective grounds for this heroic, superhuman struggle to be swept under the carpet, for the experience that could be gained from the successful struggle for the survival of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo and the Bosniacs in such circumstances should set an example. Sarajevo is a fascinating example in our historiography of how the history of urbanism and the cultural history as a whole of this city, revealed in the names of its streets, squares, parks, bridges and other features, was sidelined until the aggression against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina began.

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