Baza słoweńskich pomników partyzantów na Geopedii
Database of monuments to the Slovene partisans at Geopedia

Author(s): Miran Hladnik
Subject(s): Cultural history, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: monuments to the Slovene partisans; Slovene history; citizen science; geopositioning; Wikimiedia
Summary/Abstract: The database of 7,548 partisan monuments that a group of volunteers have collected, described and mapped on the Geopedia interactive map from 2013 until now demonstrates how deep the traumatic period of the national liberation (1941–1945) is anchored in Slovenian collective memory. Since Slovenia gained independence in 1991, sympathizers of the interwar collaborators with the occupying armies have sought to marginalize the memory of the partisan movement and the values of sacrifice for national freedom, resistance, social justice and solidarity that are inscribed on the monuments and that shaped the behaviour of the Slovenian community during the Second World War. The collection of monuments on Geopedia revives these ideals.

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