Statue of Serb WWII General unveiled
A new monument was dedicated to the memory and legacy of WWII Serbian General Draza Mihailovich, who led the first guerilla force against the Nazis, saved 500 Americans but was executed by communists after a sham trial in 1945.
The statue of General Mihailovich was unveiled at the New Gracanica Monastery in Illinois.
The unveiling ceremony’s address was made by the President of the Serbian National Defense Council of America Slavko Panovich.
“Even after 63 years of his martyr death, the fact remains that Draza Mihailovich was the founder of the first, most successful and most important resistance movement in Europe which was at the time occupied by the Nazis and their satellites,” said Panovich.
Panovich warned that Serbian authorities are now “Toying around Draza’s grave” as Serbia’s government claims that it has no documents where is the General’s grave.
General Mihailovich was shot to death little after midnight in an affluent Belgrade suburb but the precise location and the body have not been disclosed.
“The Communist criminals, their ghosts, their students and followers, are still on the stage,” in Serbia warned Panovich.
General Mihailovich and his forces have saved 500 American airmen during the “Operation Halyard.”
Art Jibilian, one of the rescued American heroes, has tried for the 60 years since to change history to accurately portray General Mihailovich as the man who helped so many Americans who fought against the Nazis.
“I always emphasize that the Americans have no concept what this cost the Serbian people,” Jibilian said.
“The land had been raped by the Germans and ravaged by the civil war. They didn’t have two nickels to rub together and to feed all these Americans, many of them wounded, was a terrible hardship on them.”
The story about the rescue has recently been documented by Gregory Freeman in his book The Forgotten 500.
October 12, 2009
SERBIANNA
Why isnt there a statue of Draza Mihailovich in Belgrade?
Why isnt there a HUGE monument in Belgrade to commemorate the innocent civilians that died from illegal terrorist attacks on Serbia by NATO?
We are our own worst enemy
Vreme je i bilo da se podigne spomenik Slavnom DJeneralu Cici Drazi,
Slazismo se, te podigosmo spomenik, daj boze da se u svemu Srbi sloze, pa da svet vidi sta ovj Srpski narod moze.
S Verom u Boga i za Otadjbinu.
Pozdrav Cica.
Cica, Amen.
Steve, I agree with you on that. Tito should be dug up and sent back to Croatia or Slovenia. I don’t care which one as long as he is still not poluting Serbian land.
Draza should be honoured and monument erected for him. There is one here in Australia as well.
Americans care very little about their own heroes, yet alone Mihailovich. I would venture to say that 99.9% of all Americans never heard of him! Probably 50% of the stupid bastards don’t even know who the US vice president is!
Capitalist criminals, their ghosts, their students and followers, are still on the stage here in the USA, some of them like Bob Dole funded by Albanian and Croatian fascist criminals.
Its this slimy element who strives to re-write history, slanting it in their favor or to the highest bidder.
Amazing. Is there no monument to General Draza Mihailovich in all of Serbia or Belgrade?? As a kid growing up in the US during WWII, I did hear/read interesting and favorable accounts of General Mihailovich and the Chetniks. They became folk hero’s to me. After the war, news coverage in the US about Yugoslavia became very slanted toward Tito and his commie regime. I do not remember reading anything about Mihailovich’s execution at the time although it may have been reported. Over the decades as atheistic marxism has increasingly dominated the US body politic, news reporting has been increasingly hostile toward Christian Serbia.
To Grant Pellaton : did you have magic mushrooms for breakfast or you were just born that way? Go back to your “Slobodna Dalmacija” or whathever rubish your fellows Ustasha print in Zagrabe and do not try to be clever, it is against your nature.