Друже Тито, ми ти се кунемо, да са твога пута не скренемо!
This is such a beautiful old school internet resource.
I don't have their book, but I do have a print of Socialist Modernism in the Former Yugoslavia [0]. It overlaps a lot in terms of photography and aesthetic but lacks the story.
[0]: https://urbanicagroup.ro/ushop/publications/album/socialist-...
These are fantastic art works, and driving around to check them out would a perfect euro tour for a future summer. Still I can't help but be intrigued by the wistful tone of the website. Judging by the "about" page, the guy running it is relatively young, so he can't quite have the Yugo-nostalgia. And yet passages like
> there were many in Yugoslavia who refused to fully integrate into this communist-led multi-cultural society [...] During the hey-day of Yugoslavia, this resentment and anger was very much kept in check by the Yugoslavian government's intense efforts in stamping out inter-ethnic retaliations, nationalism or religious hatred in any form, accompanied by the intense promotion of the ideals of 'Brotherhood and Unity'.
— to me read like they celebrate the Yugoslav communists. Would be curious to know if it's just me, or others also share the impression.
Jasenovac should be as well-known as Auschwitz.
Readers of old science fiction may be interested to know about the film version of Olaf Stapledon's novel Last and First Men. The film, mostly a voice over reading of some parts of the novel, was made with many Spomeniks as a background.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8015444/