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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep darlings, till the summer comes again’”.
- Lewis Carroll
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Another example of the toll it takes on a nation to be in the geographical and geopolitical cross-hairs of history, Slovenia only gained a partial independence with the creation of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs (and its subsequent practically innumerable iterations up to and including the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) after the fall of all the giants at the end of the Great War. It was not until the USSR started breaking up that Slovenia at long last gained nominal *and* tangible independence and self-governance (and in fact was the first republic to secede from Yugoslavia). The terrain is largely forested alpine, but with the bonus of a small Adriatic coast. In other words: gorgeous.
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Issued on: June 26, 1991
From: Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia
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Issued on: May 27, 2016
From: Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia
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Recognized as a sovereign state by the UN: Yes (since May 22, 1992)
Official name: Republic of Slovenia; Republika Slovenija
Member of the Universal Postal Union: Yes (since August 27, 1992)
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PHOTOS: Yugoslavia’s brutalist relics fascinate the Instagram generation
Genex Tower is unmissable on the highway from the Belgrade airport to the center of the city.
Its two soaring blocks, connected by an aerial bridge and topped with a long-closed rotating restaurant resembling a space capsule, are such an unusual sight, the tower, built in 1977, has become a magnet for tourists despite years of neglect.
The tower is one of the most significant examples of brutalism — an architectural style popular in the 1950s and 1960s, based on crude, block-like forms cast from concrete.
Brutalism was popular throughout what was then the East bloc, but the former Yugoslavia made it its own, seizing on it as a way to forge a visual identity poised between East and West. (Reuters)
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Fists of rebellion, fists of revolution, fists of freedom.
The monument Three Fists in Bubanj Memorial Park by sculptor Ivan Sabolić was unveiled in 1963 to commemorate the people victims of mass execution perpetrated by Nazis during WW2 and the fallen partisans: “we were shot, but never killed”, says the inscription in the frieze.
Niš, Serbia 2017
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