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The Mysterious Giant Monuments of Yugoslavia

These monuments appear alien, odd and empty, stark reminders of a struggle long since forgotten by a nation that no longerexists.During the 60s’Yugoslavia goverment build these mysterious monuments to show the world the strength of the Socialist Republic.

Monument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina.

There are hundreds of them scatteredthroughout villages and rural landscapesin the former Yugoslavia. Once the site of pilgrimages by schoolchildren, military veterans, patriots, and mourners who had lost family in WWII, these Spomeniks (monuments) are today rarely visited.

Photographer Jan Kempenaers has traveled throughout the Balkans tophotograph these wild, strange structures that have lost much of their cultural relevance.