15.10.2018.
Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces on Days of Freedom
From 19th October to 1st November, Belgrade this year will be more ceremonial than usual. The city administration of the City of Belgrade, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, the City Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Dadov Youth Theatre and numerous sponsors, decided that the Days of Liberation of Belgrade in the First and Second World War be marked by a unique ten-day programme in which all the freedom-loving values of the capital will be pointed out.
Just as in the last five years, the event, which is being held this year under the title “Days of Freedom” will be supported by the Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Armed Forces, whose participation will be most notable on 27th and 28th October. In addition to the parade of the Representative Guard Orchestra on the road from Terazije to Kalemegdan, the Military Museum will organize free tours of museum exhibitions at Kalemegdan.As Colonel Sladjan Ristić, Head of the Department for Tradition, Standard and Veterans, said at the press conference on the occasion of the Days of Freedom in the City Assembly, it will not be all that the Serbian Armed Forces offers to the city during these ten days, devoted to the Serbian freedom-loving tradition of the Serbian capital.
- In the period from 20th October to 1st November, within the framework of the Days of Freedom event that will commemorate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade in the Second World War and 100 years since the liberation of Belgrade in the First World War, the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces will take part in execution of numerous activities. First, they will provide, for the memoridal parade on 20th October, replicas of 30 banners from the People’s Liberation War and two cannons from the Military Museum, participation of 30 cadets of the Military Academy, and the engagement of FAP trucks next to the Albania Palace in Belgrade. Then, for a stage-musical spectacle dubbed Belgrade Shadows, on 1st November, they will provide four guns and 10 replica banners and 18 uniforms from the First World War - Colonel Ristić said.
Speakers about the forthcoming Days of Freedom event were: Nikola Nikodijević, mayor of the Belgrade City Assembly, Goran Vesić and Andreja Mladenović, the deputy and the assistant mayor, respectively, and Ljubisa Ristić, the director who directed the stage spectacle "The Liberation of Belgrade" at Sugar Plant building.
