Exhibition Inventing a New Communist Capital - Titograd in the Years Following World War II

7/30/2019 Exhibition Inventing a New Communist Capital - Titograd in the Years Following World War II

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Darko Karai

Milo Vukanovi

INVENTING A NEW COMMUNIST CAPITAL

TITOGRAD IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II


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The construction of ideological and visual image of the new Montenegrin capital Titograd in the

years following after World War II is a showcase of urbanism policies in socialist Yugoslavia.

Yugoslav socialist regime decided to construct a new town instead of rebuilding the old town of

Podgorica destroyed in World War II, symbolically altering its geography by renaming it to

Titograd in 1946.

The phenomenon of Titograd and its relation to the memories of the World War II and post-

WWII is not a unique case, neither in former Yugoslavia, nor in Europe in general. After

Podgorica was renamed to Titograd, each of the Yugoslav federal republics and autonomous

provinces renamed one of their towns: Titova Mitrovica, Titova Korenica, Titov Veles, Titovo

Velenje Titov Vrbas, Titov Drvar an Titovo Uice. This process was widespread in Communist

Europe. In Germany Chemnitz was renamed to Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1953. Stalingrad and

Leningrad play an important role in Russian remembering of past Communist regime, as well asin remembering the WWII. Hungary had its own Sztalinvaros from 1951 to 1961.

Many other European towns went under great changes under the communist regimes, and we

believe that the case of Titograd will bring up the issue of questioning not only the importance

of monuments and memorials in remembering World War II, but also the importance of newly

created cityscapes as sites of remembrance.

For analyzing these phenomena we researched on the plans of construction of a new capital of

socialist Montenegro in place of a WWII destroyed town, which is the case of the invention of a

new urban space, altering both its urban and human geography. New buildings were built fastafter the war to illustrate the political and social change; new memorial sites commemorating

World War II were constructed; and the old cityscape of Podgorica, the town that preceded

Titograd, was almost gone.

The construction of Titograd is a great example for critical thinking about the new regime

influencing the politics of remembrance towards the pre-WWII regimes that were to be

forgotten. For this reason we opted for the analysis of the usage of cityscape as a specific large-

scale site of remembrance, which is the main method in the project.

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We would like to thank Iskra urid for her valuable support in mentoring the project and in

realization of this pdf/internet exhibition.


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I. SHORT HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF PODGORICA

Before World War II

Podgorica is today the biggest town and the capital of Montenegro. It is positioned in the

central region of the country, where Zeta an Bjelopavlidi valleys merge. The town is located on

the confluence of Moraa an Ribnica rivers.

This area has been inhabited since the Stone Age, but its urban history starts with the arrival of

the Romans in the 2nd

century B.C. In that period, in the wider area of the city there were three

urban settlements, Doclea, Birziminium and Alata. It is still a subject of argument, which of

these three cities had the most profound influence on the formation of the latter medieval

settlement. Out from them, Doclea was the most important town, with the biggest population

and with a very developed urban planning.

After the migration of the Goths and Slavs, as well as a devastating earthquake in the late 6th

century, these Roman urban centers died out. In the following centuries there are not many

written sources documenting a larger settlement in the location of the present day town.

According to an inscription in the church of Saint George in Podgorica a settlement was built in

the 10th century, and the first houses on the bank of the river Ribnica were raised by Marko, theLord of Gorska upa (District). The first mentioning of the name Podgorica dates back to the

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of August 1326. The town did not have a greater significance since the second half of the

15th

century. Later the town became an important strategic point. Between 1452 and 1455 it

was even under the control of the Venetian republic, until the Ottomans finally conquered it

the following year.

In 1474 on the confluence of Moraa an Ribnica rivers, the Ottomans start ed to build a fort,

under which the walls of Ottoman Podgorica developed in the next four centuries, with

Ottoman oriental urban planning and architecture. Regardless of frequent uprisings of the

surrounding Montenegrin population, the city expanded, using its favorable strategic position

for trading activities, so at the beginning of the 17th

century Podgorica had around 900

households.


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Up: Photographs of Nemanjas fortress from 1862 and Nemanjas fortress with the Ottoman bridge on

Ribnica River from the 1950s

(Milan Pavid an Orle abovid, Titograd: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotodokumentaciju, 1958)


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Up: Photographs of the Ol Town (Stara Varo) in Pogorica from 1931 and Ottoman bridge on Ribnica

river from the 1950s

(Milan Pavid an Orle abovid, Titograd: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotodokumentaciju, 1958)


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During the 19th

century Montenegrins tried to conquer Podgorica several times. The town

became finally a part of the Principality of Montenegro after the Congress of Berlin in 1878. At

that time the town had around 1,500 households.

Up: Postcar with the image of Ol Town (Stara Varo) in Pogorica before Worl War II

Podgorica experienced a flourishing development being a part of the Principality (and from

1910 the part of the Kingdom) of Montenegro. In the Ottoman period the entire town, with the

fort, was located on the south bank of the river Ribnica, however after 1886 it started to

develop on the north side of this river. The older part of Podgorica became to be known as the

Old Town (Stara Varo), an on the other sie of Ribnica river the New Town, known also as

Mirkos town (Nova Varo; Mirkova Varo) was built at the end of the 19 th century and the

beginning of the 20th

century. New industrial companies, banks, schools and modern

transportation infrastructure were built in that period. The development of the city was

stopped firstly by the Balkan Wars and after by the World War I. In the interwar period various

different local institutions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were located in Podgorica. The town

experienced some development in this period, not keeping however the level of pre-World War

I development.


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Up: Postcar with the image of New Town (Nova Varo) in Pogorica before Worl War II

Down: The photograph of hotels in the New Town (Nova Varo) in Pogorica before Worl War II


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The destruction of Podgorica during World War II

Italian bombing, on the 6th of April 1941, marked the beginning of the World War II for theinhabitants of Podgorica. Between the wars the town had over 14,000 inhabitants and it was

formed of two parts. The old Ottoman part with a 15th

century fort and a new one, which was

built in the late 19th

and early 20th

century, and was constructed in a more Central European

style. Eleven days after the first bombs fell on the towns of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the army

was in complete surrender and the country was divided between the Axis powers and their

allies. Little more than a week after Italians took control over the town, first plans were made

for an armed uprising against the occupation. On the 8th

of July 1941, in a village nearby

Podgorica, the Regional Committee of the Communist party of Yugoslavia made a decision to

start the uprising of the Montenegrin people which started on the 13th

of July. In the first daysof the uprising the rebel forces took a series of successful operations in the surroundings of the

town. After the arrival of Italian reinforcements from Albania, Podgorica was entrenched and

surrounded by barb wire thus turning it in to a camp, while the fights continued in the

countryside. The situation remained unchanged after the replacement of Italian troops by the

German ones in 1943.

The town suffered from the biggest destruction during bombing in 1943 and 1944. It was

bombed 72 times, making it one of the most bombed places during the World War II. The most

intense bombing of Podgorica happened on the 5th

of May 1944. Allied bombers dropped 270

tons of bombs on the town. The attack resulted in four German casualties and approximately

100 killed Chetnik soldiers, while 400 Montenegrin civilians were killed. During this course of

bombing a Catholic church, an Orthoox cemetery an the Glavatovid mosque were estroye.

In the main street there were bomb created craters 10 meters in diameter and from 2 to 3

meters in depth.

Bombing led to death of more than 2000 citizens and caused a complete destruction of the

town. According to some sources, less than a dozen of buildings where left standing. Besides

that, it is worth mentioning that 1599 citizens of Podgorica died in the antifascist struggle on

different fronts.

Partisan units liberated Podgorica on the 19th

of December 1944. After the liberation, works

started on the revival of the economy of the town, organization of provisions and trade

network, opening of schools and traffic communications. After a mass rally was organized in

memory of the antifascist uprising of Montenegro on the 13th

of July 1946, which was attended


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by Josip Broz Tito, the leader of the Yugoslav partisans and the president of the Communist

Party of Yugoslavia, Podgorica was renamed by the Montenegrin authorities to Titograd.

Up: Photographs of the World War II destroyed Podgorica

(Milan Pavid an Orle abovid, Titogra: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotookumentaciju, 1958 ;

and National museum of Montenegro in Cetinje, Fond: World War II)


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II.PODGORICA TRANSFORMED TO TITOGRAD

The construction of Titograd in the first years after World

War II

Yugoslav socialist authorities did not just set the goal to rebuild the city, but they also decided

to build a new capital of socialist Montenegro. Cetinje was the capital of Montenegro until 1946

with all the governing institutions and the central royal court situated there. All theadministrative buildings and housing units had to be built on the ruins of the World War II

leveled town of Podgorica. Political plans of the regime did not only change the name and

status of Podgorica after the World War II; they changed its urban landscape and visual

appearance. The old town of Podgorica was almost completely replaced by the newly

constructed Titograd.

Before World War II, the town was completely locate on the right bank of river Moraa,

between the hill Gorica to the north and the hill Ljubovid to the south. The city was ivie by

the river Ribnica. On its south confluence with river Moraa stoo the 14th century Ottoman

fort. Around that fort, on the south bank of Ribnica, there was an Ottoman part of the town,

which was named the Ol Town (Stara Varo). Besie the Ol Town, on the south sie , there

were two more Ottoman type neighborhoods, Drpe Manida an Dra. On the north bank of

Ribnica, during the late 19th

and early 20th

century, a new part of town developed. It was

named New Town or Mirkos Town (Nova Varo ili Mirkova Varo). The streets of New Town

were designed in a wide, grid structure and their straight lines and right angle corners visually

differed very much from narrow curvy streets of the oriental Ottoman parts of Podgorica. Two

banks or Ribnica River were connected with a number of small stone bridges.

There were no neighborhoods on the West side of the Moraa river in prewar Podgorica. Therewas only a summerhouse of the Montenegrin ruler from the late 19

thcentury, with a couple of

buildings which serve as a hospital. The banks of Moraa river were connected with two

briges. Vezirs Bridge, somewhat north of the town, which was built in the late 18th century,

and a new steel bridge, closer to the town center from the 1930s.


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The level of devastation of Podgorica during the World War II was large. The most severe

destruction was in the New Town where the majority of modern buildings were devastated.

Besides that, both briges across Moraa were destroyed. Out of all the formidable buildings

only the Ottoman clock tower and the building of Gymnasium stood intact. The Town hall was

damaged and the reconstruction that was done soon after World War II slightly changed itsvisual appearance.

Up: Photograph of the first stage of the reconstruction of Podgorica from 1945 showing the level of

towns destruction

(Milan-Mio Brajovid, Stara Podgorica, Podgorica: Kulturno-prosvjetna zajednica, 2002)

The city of Podgorica spread across the North-South line between the hills of Gorica and

Ljubovid before World War II. The first urban planning new authorities made were to changethis starting with the construction of the new brige across Moraa river in 1949, and with

building new boulevard which connected the two banks. The boulevard spread from East to

West, and next to it the buildings of new institutions were built. The main phase of the towns

expansion in the 1960s and 1970s followed on, affecting until then undeveloped side of the

river Moraa. By 1955, via the new boulevar, which was name Lenins, besies the

institutional buildings, a post office, galleries, financial institutions and the main hotel were


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constructed. The first building constructed on the West bank of Moraa River was the Police

headquarters. The system of the New Town grid structure of the streets was copied later in the

town planning on the West bank of Moraa River. That quarter of Titogra was named Novi

Grad (not to be confuse with Nova Varo, translated in this text as the New Town). Some other

institutional buildings were constructed on the Lenins Boulevard too.

The grid structure of the New Town has been preserved until today, and this part of town is

considered to be the urban center of Titograd. Most of today standing buildings in the New

Town were newly constructed after the World War II, with a minor number of them being

reconstructed in their original style. The south part of the New Town, which was considered to

be the wealthiest and most beautiful part of the city before the war, suffered from the highest

level of devastation and was never reconstructed. In the same location the new boulevard,

buildings of institutions and parks where built. The first resident buildings were constructed

there by the German POWs. They predominantly served as the living blocks for the new

administration which came to live and work in Titograd. No matter of all the new constructions,

the location of the main pre-World War II town square has been preserved until today with

minor changes. Pre-WWII main commercial centre, which was situated at Njegos street

moved to the nearby Freedom Street (Ulica Slobode) after World War II.

This happened because the Freedom Street was the starting point of a new boulevard which

headed south, over a newly constructed concrete bridge over the river Ribnica. This new

southern boulevard went through the heart of the Old Town, and gave the first impulse in its

destruction after World War II bombings. The second step was initiated with the construction

of the railway station, and the second north-south boulevar through Drpe Manida an Draneighborhoods, which went parallel with the first one. These two boulevards where eventually

surrounded by residential buildings. Thus, only the small isolated oriental Ottoman urban

landscape zones remained between the blocks as the constructions continued in Titograd

during the period of socialist regime. The medieval fort, destroyed in the World War II

bombings, was never restored.

The construction of a new railway station followed the building of a new railway line from

Titograd to other Montenegrin town ofNikid. This was one of the biggest constructions of this

period; however, it caused a devastation of the archeological remains of the Roman city of

Doclea, over which the new railway line passed.


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Up: The photographs of Njegos street before WWII, at its end, and after the war


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Up: Map of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including the borders of six socialist republics,

two autonomous provinces, and their capitals


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Up: A part of the map of Titograd from 1988 showing the central quarters of the Montenegrin capital

(Karta Titograda, Ljubljana: Geodetski zavod SRS Ljubljana - Turistiki savez Titograd, 1988)


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Urban development and Yugoslav socialist regime

Death to fascism Freedom to the people!

POBJEDA

Agency of the National front of MontenegroNumber 27 Cetinje, 13 July 1946 Year III

July 13Montenegrin peoples holiday

Marshal Tito in Montenegro

Over 10,000 people welcomed Marshal Tito in

Podgorica

Up: The newspaper article about the visit of Yugoslav

president Josip Broz Tito to Montenegro, 11 and 12July 1946. Although Podgorica is still mentioned in the

text, the official initiative of changing its name to

Titovgrad was formed at the time of Titos arrival to

the town. Town was named Titograd soon after that.

(Pobjeda, 13.07.1946, cover page)

Left: The photograph of Tito in Podgorica, July 1946.

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Death to fascism Freedom to the people!

POBJEDA

Agency of the National front of Montenegro

Number 30 Cetinje, 28 July 1946 Year III

PODGORICA TITOVGRAD

NEW TITOVGRAD WILL FOURISH ON THE RUINS OF

PODGORICA

Presidency of the National assembly of the Peoples

Republic of Montenegro passed the Act of changing

the name of the town of Podgorica by which it gets

the name of Titovgrad, fulfilling this way desire of

the whole nation of Montenegro and honoring the

creator and leader of the new state of our unitary

nations. The suggestion for this change of the name

came from the National assembly of the town

Podgorica as a faithful interpretation of desire and

determination of people living in town and in its

surroundings, and as an expression of love of the

Montenegrin people for the name and work of the

leader of our nations

The Act of changing the name of the town ofPodgorica to Titovgrad

Giving the expression of love of the Montenegrin

people towards the Leader of our nations;

Acknowledging the leader of national upraising, the

creator and leader of our new state Federal Peoples

Republic of Yugoslavia;

Fulfilling the desire of the whole nation of

Montenegro, especially the desire of the town and

canton of Podgorica;

On suggestion of the National assembly of town

Podgorica from 13 July 1946 to rename Podgorica to

Titovgrad

PRESIDENCY OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF MONTENEGRO

Passes:

THE ACT

of changing the name of the town of Podgorica to

TITOVGRAD


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Active efforts of the workers and

managers on the bridge of Moraa

in Titograd will be crowned with a

total success

The works on the bridge over Moraa

River, the greatest and the most

important construction work in

Titograd, develop very well. Working

efforts of this large working companywill soon end with a total success and a

great working victory due to a proper

organization of the work

Left: One of many articles published

about building the bridge of Moraa in

the official newspapers of the Peoples

Republic of Montenegro Pobjeda in

1947. The bridge of Moraa was one of

the largest constructions in Titograd in

the first years after World War II, and

was used excessively in the official

printed media in Montenegro to

present the development of urban

infrastructure.

(Pobjeda, 11.10.1947, p.3.)


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WITH THE CONSTRUCTORS OF

TITOGRAD

Titograd, November

- - Although November, it is not theend of the construction season yet.

We are building Titograd, and that

requires persistence and decisionto make all the jobs done the way

it was planned. That is the

obligation for all of us, for each

worker it was written in all the

hearts. It is, therefore, no wonder

that the works do not cease

It is not a single man, it is not

several of them, but it is all the

people that participate in the

construction of Titograd. All of

them, from a small child to an old

man, can be rightfully named theconstructors of the capital of our

Republic. It is hard to enumerate

even the most important works

they do because there have been

hundreds of them, and there are

more and more of them every day.

Their works are growing into the

new streets and buildings which

are gaining new inhabitants, and

speak the best about them.

Left: An article from the

newspapers Pobjeda promoting

the builders of Titograd in 1948. A

special care was given to naming

individual workers, and to their

individual and group achievements

which were mentioned in the text.

However, the article ends with the

information that it was not only

them who construct Titograd, butthat the whole nation does it

together, what was the usual

propaganda used for massive

promotion of new socialist values.

(Pobjeda, 29.11.1948, p.3.)


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TITOGRAD

Podgorica was a

revolutionary center of the

advanced antifascist

organizations even before

the war. They kept

deservingly the rights and

the honor of working class

even in the heaviest

moments, being faithful totheir great traditions.

Communist party and the

fighting youth of Podgorica

and towns surrounding

were the avangard of the

revolutionary movement of

Montenegro, being

inspired by the great

Leninist-Stalinist ideas

O, how Titograd changes

its visage. No more it is the

town tightened by the river

beds of Moraa and

Ribnica in which the

skeletons of the buildings

stand gruesomely empty in

the place where love and

youth flourished times ago.

It is a new socialist town in

which the formerly

restricted mans forces are

deliberated. Titograd is fullof creative energy that

transforms it to a great

economic and cultural

center of Montenegro

We construct Titograd

Thousands of hardworking

hands

Build a new town.

Town which bears the

name of TitoNow flourishes and

overgrows

Titograd, 1949.

Nikola Aleksi, 4th

grade

high school student.

p: The newspaper article promoting the construction of Titograd in 1949. The author of this article presented how the advancing

nstruction of Titograd correlates to the towns Communist past and present. A poem written by a high school student aboute construction of Titograd, mentioning the origin of the towns name, accompanied the article. This served an additional

opaganda about youth promoting ideas and values of the new regime.

objeda, 01.05.1949, p.6)


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TITOGRAD GROWS INTO THECENTER OF OUR REPUBLIC

'Podgorica is destroyed we will build it all

together because it is our duty, and because

all the victims Podgorica gave demand it

from us. We will do it, and I promise you

that in the name of the Federalgovernment'. (Marshal Tito short before 13

July 1946 in Podgorica)

Under the hill of Gorica one can see two

towns from the window of train driving from

Nikid to Titograd. One of these towns existed

some time ago and languished, finally

becoming a ruin. That was Podgorica which

was destroyed in the war. The second town is

new and young, enclosed by construction

scaffolds, cut with wide and straight

boulevards. It grows fast into a great living

monument worth of Titos time in which it is

being built

People from Podgorica were showing Stara

Varo to tourists with abashment before the

war. Houses, better say huts, were low

constructions and dark in that area. One

whole block of such buildings can be found

nearby Ribnica even today. Titograd people

will not be ashamed of this part of the town

in foreseeable period. New buildings infiltrateto this part of town through the wide

ferroconcrete bridge. Ruins and dark

buildings will disappear. Only the ruins of

Nemanjas fortress and the old clock tower

will remain standing as monument of the past

times next to the blocks of flats, constructed

according to the excellent town-planning

regulations

Hundreds of workers walk on Nemanjas river

bank street, the bank street of the river of

Moraa, Njegos street an Freeom Street.

Radio Titograd transmission is awaited on the

towns square to be heard through the

loudspeakers. The evening show starts.

Speaker is telling us about the construction of

Titograd and about the new conditions in the

Republic

p: The newspaper article reporting the construction of Titograd in 1949. The completely negative image of the old Podgorica

as spread in the text of the article along with the positive promotion of the new constructions of Titograd. The article praises

e plans of destruction of the old parts of town, and ends with the information on the current propaganda promoting the

nstructions in Titograd.

objeda, 12.05.1949, p.3.)


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TITOGRAD IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

'O, Central committee, we refuse all the slanders' the front brigades

sing

Left: The newspapers article reporting about the constructions

developing in Titograd. The text includes a report on the lives of

volunteer builders during their working day, while they sing the songsabout political and ideological issues.


TOGRADGROWS INTO A GREAT SOCIALIST TOWN (Pobjeda, 24.07.1949, p.3.)

TITOGRAD FIRST PRODUCT OF THE

FIVE YEAR PLAN

DEVELOPS INTO A GREAT TOWN WORTH OF

TITOS EPOCH

(Pobjeda, 07.08.1949, p.3.)


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p: A newspapers article about the role of Titograd antifascist women in

e construction of the Montenegrin capital.

objeda, 21.01.1950, cover page)

ght: Article about an exhibition of war photographs and postwar

nstructions from 1941 to 1951, organized in the House of Yugoslavmy in Titograd in 1951. The aim of the exhibition was to promote the

ccesses of the Communist party during and after World War II.

objeda, 12.07.1951, p.2)

President of the Government of the

Peoples Republic of Montenegro

Blao Jovanovid aware the most

distinguished constructors of Titograd

While receiving the awards, the rewarded

workers promised they will continue

working hard in constructing our country

and the town that got Titos name



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p Left: Article mentioning the start of construction of the Monument of partisan fighter on the top of Gorica hill nearby Titograd1951. The Monument and the attached memorial landscape area were built throughout the 1950s.

objeda, 06.05.1951, cover page)

p Right: Photograph of the Monument of partisan fighter on Gorica hill from 1958.

Milan Pavi and Orle abovi, Titograd: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotodokumentaciju, 1958)

own: Article reporting unveiling the bust of a partisan and national hero of Yugoslavia Ivan Milutinovi in Titograd in 1954

Pobjeda, 24.10.1954, p.15)


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Up: The official urbanistic plan of Titograd from the 1950s, according to which all of the pre-World War II quarters of the

town were planned to be destroyed, and replaced by new blocks of buildings. This plan was not fully realized, some areas

with the pre-World War II architecture remained standing. This plan was soon exchanged with a new urbanistic plan.

(Milan Pavi and Orle abovi, Titograd: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotodokumentaciju, 1958)


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p: Photographs of administrative buildings, living blocks, a hotel, and the bridges constructed from WWII to the end of 1950s

Milan Pavi and Orle abovi, Titograd: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotodokumentaciju, 1958)


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III. USAGE OF THE IMAGE OF TITOGRAD IN SOCIALIST

YUGOSLAVIA

Up: The cover page of a book promoting Titograd in the late 1950s (Milan Pavid anOrle abovid,

Titograd: Fotomonografija. Zagreb: Agencija za fotodokumentaciju, 1958). This was the main

publication promoting Titograd in the first decades after World War II.


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Postcards of Titograd from the 1950s to the 1980s

Photographs used for creating the postcards in this period promoted the parts of Titograd

constructed during the socialist regime of Yugoslavia, very often including the Monument of

partisan fighter on the hill of Gorica as the main place of World War II memory in the town,as well as some administrative buildings of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro, bridge over

the river of Moraa, and Nemanjina obala boulevard, all being constructed in the first two

decades after WWII. In that way the memory of the pre-World War II town of Podgorica with

its architecture was neglected and left to oblivion.


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Postcards of Titograd from the 1950s to the 1980s II


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Postcards of Titograd from the 1950s to the 1980s III


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Titograd on the post stamp from 1965

Up: An example of a stamp issued in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1965, showing the

part of Titograd with the brige of Moraa an aministrative builings, constructe in the late 1940s

and early 1950s. This is one of a set of six stamps commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the

liberation of Yugoslavia in World War II.


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Titograd in the school textbook from 1983

Up: Titograd presentation in the school textbook Moja domovina: SFR Jugoslavija (My homeland:

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1983. Tasks for students were listed under the

photography epicting the moern part of Titogra: The capital of the Socialist Republic of

Montenegro is Titograd. According to whom did it get its name? According to this photograph, is

Titograd a newer or an old town? Prove your answer with the evidence you see on the photograph.

The aim of presenting this photograph of Titograd accompanied by the tasks for students was to

create the image of Titograd as a completely new town that is marked by its modern architecture

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