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This is a story of Spomenko Gostić, а soldier of the Army of Serb Republic and a war hero.

http://www.serbianroundup.com/2013/03/courage-resolve-patriotism-remembering.html

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Споменко Гостић је заборављен јер је заборављена жртва која је положена за Српску.

http://kamensrbije.blogspot.com/2013/03/blog-post_21.html

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Споменко Гостић, петнаестогодишњи херој рата у Босни и Херцеговини. Снимак из 1992.

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On February 14, Orthodox Serbs celebrate Saint Trifun, the patron saint of vine and winegrowers, as well as innkeepers.

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Great Serbs: Ruđer Bošković

Ruđer Bošković, born on May 18, 1711, in Dubrovnik, and died on February 13, 1787, in Milan, was one of the greatest Serbian physicist. He also attained glory as an astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, poet and diplomat.

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Why are they killing the poet in socialism?

Branko Miljković, a great Serbian poet of the 20th century, bellowed this in a Zagreb tavern on February 11, 1961. He was immediately arrested. The next day, his body was found hanging from a tree.

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Great Serbs: General Milan Nedić

General Milan Nedić, the most controversial Serb in the 20th century, was born on September 2, 1878, and died on February 4, 1946. He is best known as the German collaborationist prime minister of the occupied Serbia from 1941 to 1944.

Born in Grocka, near Belgrade, Nedić's ancestry is traced back to the Nedić brothers, heroes of one of the first battles against Turks in the First Serbian Uprising. On his mother's side, he descended from knez Stanoje of Zeoke, a Serb leader killed by Turks in the famed Slaughter of the Knezes in 1804. His father was a county executive and his mother a teacher.

Nedić had an exemplary military career. He was highly decorated in the Balkan Wars and the First World War and the youngest colonel in the Serbian Army. In 1934, he was named the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army. In 1939, he was appointed as the Minister of the Army and the Navy, replacing his brother, general Milutin Nedić, but knez Pavle removed him in 1940. He opposed the Britain-orchestrated coup against knez Pavle's agreement with Hitler on March 27, 1941. In the April War, he fought Germans and Bulgarians in Macedonia.

Nedić at first refused to collaborate with the German occupiers, but faced with the threat of Serbia being divided among Hungarian, Croat, Bulgarian and Albanian Nazi allies, he succumbed to the pressure. Nedić formed the Government of National Salvation and tasked it with eliminating the armed resistance to the German occupation in Serbia. The German official policy was to execute 100 Serb civilians for every one German soldier killed and Nedić decided that it is more important to save the Serbian people than to fight the superior Nazi troops. He did, reportedly, divert funds to general Mihailović's Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland.

It is estimated that about 700,000 Serbs from the fascist Independent State of Croatia found refuge in Serbia, in addition to 150,000 Serbs from the fascist Greater Albania and tens of thousands from the Hungarian-occupied north Serbia. Among the refugees, there were tens of thousands non-Serbs, particularly Slovenes.

The Red Army occupation of Serbia saw Nedić transported by the Germans to Austria, after which the British extradited him to the newly imposed, communist authorities in Yugoslavia. Nedić, after months of interrogation in Belgrade, reportedly committed suicide by jumping through a window.

The forty five years of communist rule contributed greatly to the lack of historical information about Nedić's motivation for siding with the German occupier rather than the English, Americans and  the Soviets, although it is clear that Nedić was mainly interested in saving the physically endangered Serb national corpse, rather than sacrificing the Serbs in a war between Great Powers.

The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences listed him among the 100 most significant Serbs.

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Great Serbs: Aleksa Šantić

Aleksa Šantić, one of the greatest Serbian romantic and nationalist poets, was born in Mostar, Herzegovina, on May 27, 1868, and died in his hometown on February 2, 1924.

Šantić was born in a merchant family, and while his father died early, the uncle who raised him prepared him for a business career. Young Aleksa attended business schools in Trieste and Ljubljana, but, upon his return, he engaged in poetry, publishing and cultural and nationalist activism.

Šantić is a cultural giant of Mostar and all of Herzegovina. He founded and edited the literary review Dawn (Зора) and presided over the Serbian Singing Society Gusle. An Orthodox Serb who embraced the cultural and religious variety of his Herzegovinian home soil, his poetic opus was influenced by motifs ranging from those stemming from Serb pastoral and patriarchal traditions and the national liberation struggles to those characterizing Ottoman-era folk songs, sevdalinke. His main literary influences were Serbian poets Vojislav Ilić and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and German Heinrich Heine, whose works he translated into Serbian.

In the 1980s, a movie named ''My Brother Aleksa'' was made about his life. Also, a village in northern Serbia was named after him.

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Great Serbs: Marko Miljanov Popović

One of the greatest heroes of the Serb struggle for independence, Marko Miljanov Popović, was born on April 25, 1833, in Medun, near Podgorica, Montenegro. He was the leader of the Kuči and Bratonožići highlander clans, a general (vojvoda) of the Montenegrin Army and an author.

Marko Miljanov was given the rank of a general by knez Nikola Petrović Njegoš and he commanded the Montenegrin Army in the battle of Fundina of 1876, one of the most heroic battles Serbs fought against the Turks in the 19th century. 

Knez Nikola made Marko Miljanov the mayor of Podgorica after its liberation. In 1882, the two men openly feuded and Miljanov withdrew from the public scene. In his native Medun, he turned to writing. Although illiterate at the age of 50, Miljanov, after learning to write, left some of the most precious literary works about the time he witnessed. His most important work was The examples of valor and humanity.

Marko Miljanov famously rejected the Austrian effort to undermine the Montenegrin unity by making him ”the prince of Albania.” He recognized the ploy to divide the Serbs and ordered his men to beat up the Austrian representative who came with the proposal. 

He died on February 2, 1901, in Medun.

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Алекса Шантић: ''Сељанка''

Снег пада и веје. У сеоској луци Све је пусто. Само, као сенка тупа, Низ пртину уску, са штапом у руци, Погрбљена, бледа, једна жена ступа. Ступа и једнако испод борна чела Погледује тамо у костуре живе, Где се на домаку реке, у дну села, Сеоскога уче стан самотни скрива. Нек' ветрови бесне, нек' мећаве хуче И засипљу сметом путеве ратара, Она сваке дневи одлази код уче, Па учи и сриче слова из буквара. Сви се чудом чуде у селу и зборе: "Сирота, полуде!" Но светла к'о свила, И чврста к'о рало што црницу оре, Све је ближе циљу њена жеља била. И скоро кад жита зашумише јара, Кад под стрехом ласта кликну песму њену, Једно јутро с учом опрости се стара, Низ прагове сиђе и путањом крену. Постигла је сврху. У свакоме куту Њезинога срца нова снага дршће. Нити она гдегод одахне на путу, Но с дреновим штапом корача све чвршће. Већ је на крај стазе. Сада брвно води преко уске реке што кривуда луком; Старица не стрепи, она напред ходи, И слободно хвата за доруке руком. Испред воденице што наслања на њу Своје рачве сиве један орах свео, Божи је и зове млинар, и на пању Са дечаком седи, сав од млива бео. Но она све даље корача, и само Каткад суху руку стави изнад чела, Па погледа брегу где, из храшћа тамо, Са планулим крстом вири торањ села. Корача и носи и радост и јаде У туробној тами својих позних днева; И још два-три крока, па под брегом стаде, Где споменик с орлом двоглавијем сева. Прекрсти се, мермер целива и очи Подиже. Ту горе златна слова стоје. И у првом реду, на мраморној плочи, Угледа имена лепе деце своје. Полагано сриче уклесана слова: "Ратко, Ђорђе, Дејан", па грца и стане, Срце стиска, затим сриче, сриче снова, А при сваком слову нова суза кане. Под кров њене душе, к'о селице летом Враћају се светле успомене дана Кад је децу дивну, као стабла с цветом, Гледала крај црних плугова и брана. Пред њом свићу јутра жетвена, и она Све стубове кутње, младе к'о кап росе, И дичне и светле, к'о краљеви с трона, Гледа меду класјем са отсевом косе. Она с нова види све вечери касне Кад је у колеби сваки кут грохот'о, Види сва три сина, све ликове красне, Огњишта и ватру, вериге и кот'о. Све види и чује. И понори туге Пуцају све дубље, јер, пуста и сама, Сад колеба чути, и сад, место дуге, Као паучина сврх ње виси тама. Скупила се чељад. Сви гледају у њу, Са дубоким болом скрушени и свели; И сви ову бледу сељанку у гуњу Сузама би својим утешити хтели. Но старица само тресе се и грца И упире поглед у споменик бео, Сврх ког устремљени ор'о светломрца, Као да би мајку огрејати хтео. И дани све теку, а мраморној плочи Свако јутро, рано, у појање петла, Тихо мати дође, па подиже очи, Моли се и дуго сриче слова светла. И док она тако, скрушена и сама Пред мрамором стоји, ту, у врху села, И док рана звона звоне с торња храма, Обруч златан дршће око њена чела.

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The Serbian Literary Herald

The Serbian Literary Herald (Српски Књижевни Гласник) was launched on February 1, 1901, by Bogdan Popović, a giant of Serbian literary criticism.

It was issued during two periods, separated by the Great War. First it ceased being published in 1914, to be re-launched in 1920. The onset of the Second World War saw the end of the Herald.

Throughout both periods, the works published in the Herald rounded up a who's-who of Serbian literature, all the while being edited by top literary critics and editors. It exercised monumental influence on the Serbian and South Slavic literature.

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I don't fear any man, not the Knez, not the Council, not a minister, not a bishop, and no one is due to fear anyone else, we are all equal, the Knez to a pig-herder, the pig-herder to a councilman, the councilman to a tailor, the tailor to a judge, the judge to myself, we are all equal. One shouldn't bask in the sun, while others stand in the shadows... I fear no man, I only fear the Constitution and I'm going to let it be known to Knez Mihailo, like I've let his father know... Let no one think the Knez can do whatever he pleases around the country; he must listen to the people and do what the people wish and command.

Toma Vučić Perišić, Serbian general and the leader of the party of the Defenders of the Constitution

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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

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Have you heard of... Jakov Jakšić?

Jakov Jakšić was Serbia's first postmaster and, as the state treasurer under Knez Miloš Obrenović, the first reformer of state finances.

He was born in Srem in 1774, as Jakov Popović.  Already a wealthy merchant, he crossed into Central Serbia to fight in the First Serbian Uprising. He died in Belgrade on January 29, 1848.

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Saint Sava, founder of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Sun Tzu