Moving Towards New Meanings. 9 May in the Balkans

... for liberation and cultivate national memory. The author would like to thank Momir Nankovic (Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade, Serbia) for his comments and assistance in preparing this article. 1 . See: Gibiansky, L. Y. Yugoslavia During World War II // Yugoslavia in the 20th Century. Studies in Political History. Moscow, 2011, pp. 305–523 (in Russian). 2 . The Independent State of Croatia was a puppet state created by the Croatian Ustaše movement, with the support of the Axis nations, on April 10, 1941. As a result of the terror regime pursued by the Ustaše movement against ethnic minorities (Serbs, Jews and Gypsies),...