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Representatives of the Russian-Slovenian Club of Moscow Entrepreneurs and Russian diplomats laid flowers at the monuments to Soviet soldiers and Slovenian partisans. They were joined by locals, TASS reports.
The memorial event took place in Žužemberk, where a monument was erected to the soldiers of the People's Liberation Front and Soviet soldiers who died in the Slovenian region of Suha Krajina. Flowers were also laid at the monument in the village of Gabrye.
The chairman of the Association of Fighters for the Values of the People's Liberation Movement of Novo Mesto, Dusan Cerne, said that work is underway to rename the square where the monument was erected. They want to call it Little Moscow. According to him, the idea was born during WWII, but officially the implementation of this project began in 2020.
According to him, Gabrier was the center of the partisan movement in the region. This place was not occupied by the Nazis and remained under the control of the partisans throughout the war years.
During the war, Germany, Hungary and Italy occupied the territory of Yugoslavia, which then included most of modern Slovenia. A powerful partisan movement that resisted the Nazis was led by the Liberation Front. It acted until the country was liberated in 1945 by Soviet soldiers and Yugoslav partisans.
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