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Culture Minister lays wreath at Zeytinlik
Belgrade/Thessaloniki,
28 September 2013
Minister of Culture and Media Ivan Tasovac stated today in Thessaloniki at the Serbian military cemetery Zeytinlik on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Salonika Front, that this feat of the most famous generation in our history gives guidance to the generation of today.
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Upon laying wreaths at Zeytinlik, Tasovac recalled that one French officer described the breakthrough of the Salonika Front as „an unseen marathon of French cavalry and Serbian ground troops, in which Serbian ground troops won".
Standing on this spot, with decent reverence and gratitude, we have the obligation to ask ourselves what messages and guidance we can draw from this greatest achievement, Tasovac said.
He referred to the respect which the world paid to Serbia at that time, first and foremost the USA which at that moment came onto the stage as a world power, whose president Woodrow Wilson placed Serbian flag next to the American on 28 July 1918 on the White House and all other public buildings and said that “Serbia fought knightly and suffered for the same principles which the United States of America advocates”.
We should also not forget the sacrifice of Russian tsar Nicolas II, who entered the war to protect Serbia, but he lost both his life and his empire.
The Minister of Culture expressed gratitude to Greece, which became a substitute motherland for Serbs in those years.
He referred to the respect which the world paid to Serbia at that time, first and foremost the USA which at that moment came onto the stage as a world power, whose president Woodrow Wilson placed Serbian flag next to the American on 28 July 1918 on the White House and all other public buildings and said that “Serbia fought knightly and suffered for the same principles which the United States of America advocates”.
We should also not forget the sacrifice of Russian tsar Nicolas II, who entered the war to protect Serbia, but he lost both his life and his empire.
The Minister of Culture expressed gratitude to Greece, which became a substitute motherland for Serbs in those years.
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