21.06.2021.
Serbian-Slovak commemorative ceremonies in Kragujevac
A delegation representing the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces has laid wreaths today at the Slovak Military Cemetery in Kragujevac as part of the Serbian-Slovak commemorative ceremonies.
The ceremony was led by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Miodrag Kapor, and on this occasion, wreaths were also laid by representatives of the City of Kragujevac, the Slovak Republic in the Republic of Serbia, associations and citizens.
Soldiers of the Trenčín-based 71st Infantry Regiment, consisting mostly of Slovaks and some Czechs, rebelled in the last year of the First World War. After signing the peace treaties at Brest-Litovsk in 1918, they arrived in Kragujevac from Russia, and under the influence of the October Revolution, they led a mutiny against their commanding officers, the Germans and the Hungarians. After that act, they were executed at Stanovljansko polje on 21 June 1918.The construction of the Czech-Slovak Military Cemetery Memorial Complex on Stanovljansko Polje in Kragujevac began in 1924, when a monument was erected in memory of this event, inscribed with the names of 44 executed Slovaks.
