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Landing of Serbian army on Corfu, Vido example of loyalty to homeland

Belgrade/Vido, 25 September 2025

Prime Minister Professor Đuro Macut, MD, DSc, emphasised today, at the commemoration of the 109th anniversary of the landing of the Serbian army in World War I on the Greek islands of Corfu and Vido, that in these places, sacred to Serbia, the Serbian army was recovering and gaining new strength for the final liberation of the homeland.

In his address at the Serbian Heroes Mausoleum, where he laid a wreath, Macut said that the island of Vido is a sacred place for all citizens of Serbia, the place of suffering of the starving and exhausted Serbian army, which, retreating towards Corfu, passed the Albanian Golgotha.

The Prime Minister noted that it is estimated that more than 210,000 people died during the retreat, and more than 5,400 on the island of Vido itself, and that every foot of that island is a grave of those who died for Serbia and for the freedom of their people.

In the history of the world, it is one of the most honourable examples of obedience to one’s homeland, freedom, people and oath, the Prime Minister said.

That oath to defend and protect ourselves was not violated even when the enemies attacked us from three sides, with an army ten times stronger, nor when we ran out of ammunition, nor when we crossed the Albanian and Montenegrin mountains in the dead of winter hungry, naked and barefoot, he said.

According to him, the Serbian army in Corfu was treated with the brotherly relationship, respect, compassion and hospitality of the Greek people, and strengthened by the brotherly gestures of the people of Corfu, such as the decision of Yannis Yannoulis to have a dignified cemetery for the heroes of the Drina Division on part of his property.

Macut expressed his gratitude to the people of Corfu and the Yannoulis family for helping, loving and being loved by the Serbian people in their most difficult times.

The Prime Minister also laid a wreath at the “Blue Tomb”.

The anniversary was also attended by Metropolitan of the Ionian Islands Nektarios, Minister of Defence Bratislav Gašić, Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski and others.