29.11.2021.
80th anniversary of Battle of Kadinjača marked
An MoD and SAF delegation laid a wreath today at the Kadinjača Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of the famous battle between members of the People’s Liberation Movement and the Nazi Germany.
The memorial service was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony and a cultural-artistic programme.
The memorial complex on top of Kadinjača Mountain near Užice testifies to the heroic November days of 1941, when members of the Workers' Battalion under the command of Andrija Đurović, as well as the fighters of the Posavina Detachment’s 1st Battalion and the 2nd Šumadija Detachment’s Orašac Company put up fierce resistance against a far superior enemy which had launched an offensive against the liberated territory of the so-called Republic of Užice.
Soldiers of the Workers' Battalion bravely died in the battles on Kadinjača on November 29, 1941. Enemy forces broke down the last defence of Užice, but the heroism of those soldiers remained remembered in the times that followed.
The "Kadinjača" memorial complex near Užice, which was renovated in 2011, is a complex architectural and museological unit consisting of segments built between 1952 and 1979.
