Hi there In order to go to Mrakovica to se the War Memorial, you probably drove trough a town named Kozarac, this is the place i was born and grew up in. I come from family of Partizans, In WW2, my grandfather was a Major in Partizans and was in the "battle of Kozara" he was wounded there also, the bullet went trough his lungs and came out of his back but he lived, he lived until 1986, he told me so many great stories about the battle of Kozara, my other grandfather was there also and i m very proud they fought for Yugoslavia , the best country in the World at the time until 1991 Thank you for this video, i m your new subscriber. Veliki Pozdrav 💙
Indeed we did drive through Kozarac! You can see it briefly in the video on the way to the spomenik, I filmed some of the main road and a couple of the mosques. What a great story about your grandfather! Thanks for sharing, pozdrav :)
@@BenTheRules I did see you drove trough Kozarac:) I wrote my comment right at the beginning of the video because i was so exited seeing the subject of the story lol Again , thank you for showing our beautiful country to the World.
Thank you, Ben, for spreading positive informations about Bosnia! Since you are interested in WW2 monuments, I have to tell you that you missed an important place in Glamoč, a memorial to fallen resistance leader, Ivo Lola Ribar. Ribar family was highly respectable family in former Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all of the family joined anti-fascist movement, when forces of Axis attacked Yugoslavia. Ivo Lola Ribar became one of the close Tito's collaborators, he was a leader of Communist youth. He was supposed to travel on a plane from Glamoč, to meet some Allied representatives, but his plane was attacked by Nazi plane and everyone oonboard was killed. Beside this memorial, Glamoč has some other interesting monuments from previous centuries. I wish you had someone to show you interesting places in Glamoč, because this place has a long history, which goes back even before Roman Empire conquered Illyrian tribes, who lived in this region.
You should go visit Bobovac. The capital of the medieval Bosnian kingdom. And Mile near Visoko, close to Bobovac ,where the bosnian kings were coronated. And Kraljeva Sutjeska. I hope you Will do it. ❤.
I saw your video of Croats in Italy so if you're interested and have the time I suggest you visit my town Bački Petrovac one day if you want to hear the Slovak language in Vojvodina, Serbia. It's a lot different from the variety in Slovakia because we use a lot of Serbian, Hungarian and German words. Keep up the great work!
Hey Ben I'm coming to Bosnia in a few days, I'd love to show you more of Kozarac and Krajna Bosna, Cazin and Velika Kladusa! I love your vids and I got plans to drive all over Bosna. Bujrum to my place in Rijeka Croatia as well!
I love visiting this Spomenik. Whenever I'm in Bosnia(My family is from Prijedor), I want to go there because it's such a cool and historical place. My family also fought in the Battle of Kozara on the side of the partisans, sadly some of our family members also lost their lives in the battle and their names are also written on the wall of the fallen. They sacrificed their lives for freedom against the fascist forces. My Great Grandparent was captured and brought to Germany as Prisoner Of War to construct and repair infrastructure. After the war ended he needed half a year to return to Yugoslavia, because he couldn't read and didn't know where he was in central europe. He often took trains in the wrong direction but eventually he made it back home. The oldest brother of my Grandpa (still a baby) was hidden in a closet when the Nazis came into their house searching it for anything that they could take with them. They came mostly to steal food and other supplies from the locals. But they also often took small children with them, so that they could be sent to germany to be germanized. Luckly the baby was quiet while the Nazis searched the house for anything valuable. There are so many fascinating stories which I could tell about the second world war. I didn't even start watching the video, I directly went to the comments section to write a comment. Now I will watch the video! Thanks for going there. 😃👍
Great video as always. I couldn’t fit in the center of the spomenik either Way too much chevapi lol. Do you prefer the sarajevski or banjalucki chevapi?
Hahaha I'm glad I'm not alone! We actually made a ćevapi video as well, where we tested it in Sarajevo, Travnik & Banja Luka. That video will be out in a few weeks, so I won't spoil which one I liked best :)
You could explore WW2 bunkers in Croatia. Also there are many abandoned Yugoslav bases for air and sea defense. WW2 bunkers are the most prominent in the vicinity of Rijeka.
Kozara je bila isto puna cetnika koji su isto pobili "svoj" narad. E a vidis, moj dido, "Musliman" kako nas etno-sovinisticka stoka naziva, nije bio usrasa vec je bio partizan - Krajisnik - bio je i na Kozari i Sutjesci. I nije vidio razliku izmedju cetnika i ustasa. Isto sranje - drugo pakovanje.
😂😂 Do you know what Jasenovac is? This is the greatest monument why? Cause Ustačhe say so? Tito suppressed so much that Croats and Muslims will not even recognize the horrific genocide they committed to this day.
@@BenTheRules how come many of these monuments are still standing...would have thought the ones in Slovenia and Croatia proper would have been destroyed by the end of the war..
Story behind Kozarac. While this small town is administratively in the RS entity, it has a large population of Bosniaks who returned to their homes after the war. Kozarac was one of the first places in that part of country where Serbs commited attrocities against Bosniaks and explelled the rest. They returned after the end of the war and claimed their properties. That's the reason why you see many Bosnian flags. I guess you can say it's similar pattern like in Srebrenica - people returned despite the horrors they survived and made stand - and point this is Bosnia and not Serbia, no matter what administrative unit it is in.
Zastava koja ima ljiljane u sebi . Ljiljani su koristeni u srednjovekovnoj Srbiji . Sto niste stavili neki islamski znak kao zvjezdu i mjesec . Aaaa da vi niste pravi Turci . VI ste poturice koje imaju korjene od Srba ili Hrvata . Pitanje je koju ste slavu slavili . Ili kako vam se zvao dida . Ivan ili Jovan
Underrated vid. The memorial is huge. I have a theory that both the nazis and the communist were somehow led by two opposite fractions of aliens who used humans as their soldiers to fight on Earth. Both were very hostile and had some cool technology that they transferred to Earth - bombers such as B-2, F-117, Tu-160, nuclear weapons, those famous V-2 missiles, flying saucers etc. No way we invented all that cool military tech in just 5 years but were previously barely able to use the gunpowder and fought with swords for centuries.. And for some reason, the communist aliens loved building these weird monuments.
My uncle was an extra in that legendary film about the battle of Kozara. They would show it regularly on TV and we would watch it every summer in the 80s, when we went to Prijedor, my dad's hometown. ''That's him, that's him!'' A little boy among other children. The Serbs killed him in one of the concentration camps only days after their offensive started in '92. My dad used to tell a story about how when the makers of the film, hired local Serb extras playing Cetniks, the Serbs sent a letter asking them: Will you be providing uniforms or do you want us to bring our own?
Exactly ("our own uniform") ! Kozara was full of chetniks in WW2 who were murdering non-nationalist Serbian population too! So not all Serbs of Kozara fell victims to Ustashe and Nazis.
@@ShejtanVrbaski Not surprised. They did that in the last war, too. My dad's point was that there was no contrition among the Serbs. They had kept the uniforms, since they felt it was safe to do so, as well as the fact that they were still walking around without accountability in post-war Yugoslavia. Keeping the uniforms meant they were ready to continue, biding their time.
Hi there
In order to go to Mrakovica to se the War Memorial, you probably drove trough a town named Kozarac, this is the place i was born and grew up in.
I come from family of Partizans, In WW2, my grandfather was a Major in Partizans and was in the "battle of Kozara" he was wounded there also, the bullet went trough his lungs and came out of his back but he lived, he lived until 1986, he told me so many great stories about the battle of Kozara, my other grandfather was there also and i m very proud they fought for Yugoslavia , the best country in the World at the time until 1991
Thank you for this video, i m your new subscriber.
Veliki Pozdrav 💙
Indeed we did drive through Kozarac! You can see it briefly in the video on the way to the spomenik, I filmed some of the main road and a couple of the mosques.
What a great story about your grandfather! Thanks for sharing, pozdrav :)
@@BenTheRules I did see you drove trough Kozarac:)
I wrote my comment right at the beginning of the video because i was so exited seeing the subject of the story lol
Again , thank you for showing our beautiful country to the World.
Nice job! Samo nastavi s dobrim poslom!
Hvala! pozdrav :)
Thank you, Ben, for spreading positive informations about Bosnia! Since you are interested in WW2 monuments, I have to tell you that you missed an important place in Glamoč, a memorial to fallen resistance leader, Ivo Lola Ribar. Ribar family was highly respectable family in former Kingdom of Yugoslavia and all of the family joined anti-fascist movement, when forces of Axis attacked Yugoslavia. Ivo Lola Ribar became one of the close Tito's collaborators, he was a leader of Communist youth. He was supposed to travel on a plane from Glamoč, to meet some Allied representatives, but his plane was attacked by Nazi plane and everyone oonboard was killed.
Beside this memorial, Glamoč has some other interesting monuments from previous centuries. I wish you had someone to show you interesting places in Glamoč, because this place has a long history, which goes back even before Roman Empire conquered Illyrian tribes, who lived in this region.
NOTE* I forgot to mention this at the end of the video, but the journey to a Bosnian ghost town will be in the next video, in 1-2 weeks. Pozdrav!
You should go visit Bobovac. The capital of the medieval Bosnian kingdom. And Mile near Visoko, close to Bobovac ,where the bosnian kings were coronated. And Kraljeva Sutjeska. I hope you Will do it. ❤.
Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I saw your video of Croats in Italy so if you're interested and have the time I suggest you visit my town Bački Petrovac one day if you want to hear the Slovak language in Vojvodina, Serbia. It's a lot different from the variety in Slovakia because we use a lot of Serbian, Hungarian and German words. Keep up the great work!
Yo what are the changes you run into such a strapping young lad as Mr. Belmin there??? Great Video keep it up!
There is small museum about 100m from the monument. Definitely should visit it, while you were there.
I went over to the museum and filmed a bit but it was closed that day. It might’ve been too late in the day, I’m not sure
Hey Ben I'm coming to Bosnia in a few days, I'd love to show you more of Kozarac and Krajna Bosna, Cazin and Velika Kladusa! I love your vids and I got plans to drive all over Bosna. Bujrum to my place in Rijeka Croatia as well!
I love visiting this Spomenik. Whenever I'm in Bosnia(My family is from Prijedor), I want to go there because it's such a cool and historical place. My family also fought in the Battle of Kozara on the side of the partisans, sadly some of our family members also lost their lives in the battle and their names are also written on the wall of the fallen. They sacrificed their lives for freedom against the fascist forces. My Great Grandparent was captured and brought to Germany as Prisoner Of War to construct and repair infrastructure. After the war ended he needed half a year to return to Yugoslavia, because he couldn't read and didn't know where he was in central europe. He often took trains in the wrong direction but eventually he made it back home. The oldest brother of my Grandpa (still a baby) was hidden in a closet when the Nazis came into their house searching it for anything that they could take with them. They came mostly to steal food and other supplies from the locals. But they also often took small children with them, so that they could be sent to germany to be germanized. Luckly the baby was quiet while the Nazis searched the house for anything valuable. There are so many fascinating stories which I could tell about the second world war. I didn't even start watching the video, I directly went to the comments section to write a comment. Now I will watch the video! Thanks for going there. 😃👍
Great video as always. I couldn’t fit in the center of the spomenik either Way too much chevapi lol. Do you prefer the sarajevski or banjalucki chevapi?
Hahaha I'm glad I'm not alone! We actually made a ćevapi video as well, where we tested it in Sarajevo, Travnik & Banja Luka. That video will be out in a few weeks, so I won't spoil which one I liked best :)
@@BenTheRules awesome can’t wait!
You could explore WW2 bunkers in Croatia. Also there are many abandoned Yugoslav bases for air and sea defense. WW2 bunkers are the most prominent in the vicinity of Rijeka.
Very sci fi futuristic these spomeniks. Remember the whistle strait away, that the yugoslav national anthem.
Over 700.000 Serbs was massacred by Croats,muslims and Germans after Kozara .
To su braca Usrase uradile . Taj dio Bosne je imao dosta Muslimana koji su postali Usrase
Kozara je bila isto puna cetnika koji su isto pobili "svoj" narad.
E a vidis, moj dido, "Musliman" kako nas etno-sovinisticka stoka naziva, nije bio usrasa vec je bio partizan - Krajisnik - bio je i na Kozari i Sutjesci. I nije vidio razliku izmedju cetnika i ustasa. Isto sranje - drugo pakovanje.
Great vlog my brother, ur always welcome in Republic of Srpska
Narnia next?
😂😂 Do you know what Jasenovac is? This is the greatest monument why? Cause Ustačhe say so? Tito suppressed so much that Croats and Muslims will not even recognize the horrific genocide they committed to this day.
I think the gratest and best looking Yugoslavian monument dedicated to ww2 is Kadinjaca
That one looks really amazing, it’s on my list of places to visit for sure
@@BenTheRules how come many of these monuments are still standing...would have thought the ones in Slovenia and Croatia proper would have been destroyed by the end of the war..
Story behind Kozarac. While this small town is administratively in the RS entity, it has a large population of Bosniaks who returned to their homes after the war. Kozarac was one of the first places in that part of country where Serbs commited attrocities against Bosniaks and explelled the rest. They returned after the end of the war and claimed their properties. That's the reason why you see many Bosnian flags. I guess you can say it's similar pattern like in Srebrenica - people returned despite the horrors they survived and made stand - and point this is Bosnia and not Serbia, no matter what administrative unit it is in.
Zastava koja ima ljiljane u sebi . Ljiljani su koristeni u srednjovekovnoj Srbiji . Sto niste stavili neki islamski znak kao zvjezdu i mjesec . Aaaa da vi niste pravi Turci . VI ste poturice koje imaju korjene od Srba ili Hrvata . Pitanje je koju ste slavu slavili . Ili kako vam se zvao dida . Ivan ili Jovan
Nice videos of spomeniks, ali ljudi govore vise od spomenika...
‘Including Tito himself???’ Don’t think so
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Kozara ww2 moje mesto
Croatia was ustase.
Underrated vid. The memorial is huge. I have a theory that both the nazis and the communist were somehow led by two opposite fractions of aliens who used humans as their soldiers to fight on Earth. Both were very hostile and had some cool technology that they transferred to Earth - bombers such as B-2, F-117, Tu-160, nuclear weapons, those famous V-2 missiles, flying saucers etc. No way we invented all that cool military tech in just 5 years but were previously barely able to use the gunpowder and fought with swords for centuries.. And for some reason, the communist aliens loved building these weird monuments.
My uncle was an extra in that legendary film about the battle of Kozara. They would show it regularly on TV and we would watch it every summer in the 80s, when we went to Prijedor, my dad's hometown. ''That's him, that's him!'' A little boy among other children. The Serbs killed him in one of the concentration camps only days after their offensive started in '92.
My dad used to tell a story about how when the makers of the film, hired local Serb extras playing Cetniks, the Serbs sent a letter asking them: Will you be providing uniforms or do you want us to bring our own?
Exactly ("our own uniform") ! Kozara was full of chetniks in WW2 who were murdering non-nationalist Serbian population too! So not all Serbs of Kozara fell victims to Ustashe and Nazis.
@@ShejtanVrbaski Not surprised. They did that in the last war, too. My dad's point was that there was no contrition among the Serbs. They had kept the uniforms, since they felt it was safe to do so, as well as the fact that they were still walking around without accountability in post-war Yugoslavia. Keeping the uniforms meant they were ready to continue, biding their time.
Let's be honest the only people that loved Yugoslavia were Bosnians
That's because we had most to loose. Be it Serbs, Bosniaks or Croats.
Get over Yugo bro! Dosadan si
Imagine how dosadan you must be to watch a dosadan UA-camr
@@BenTheRules exactly
Ako te ne zanima - ne gledaj, ovaj kanal će bit i bolji bez tebe i tvojih nepotrebnih komentara 😘
No kidding. Sad and sick.