These threads pop up every once in a while and there's something really important to know about them. https://twitter.com/dollydemonica/status/1296634102234324992

These "abandoned monuments" are often memorials and are not abandoned at all, and they often mark the sites of horrible massacres in battle, mass executions, and concentration camps. Be VERY careful about how you use these images. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spomenik-memorials-yugoslavia-balkans

"At Jasenovac in Croatia, where the “Stone Flower” monument watches over the site of a former concentration camp, a museum complex hosts annual remembrance gatherings where many hundreds of attendees swarm through the park on the anniversary of the camp’s liberation."

"Near Sisak in Croatia, there is a grove in the forest where the nation’s first anti-fascist partisan detachment was formed. Visit the place today and it will feel remote... But bouquets of fresh flowers, laid on an engraved stone, tell a different story."

"They’ve become concrete clickbait for the Instagram generation, but as a new book shows, spomeniks were designed to reflect an international struggle against fascism and to promote a modern, progressive socialism" https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/10661/spomenik-monument-database-donald-niebyl-yugoslavia-memorials