{"id":20229,"date":"2022-11-17T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=20229"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T09:13:14","slug":"president-milanovic-vukovar-mother-kata-soljic-experienced-a-tragedy-never-before-experienced-in-our-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-vukovar-mother-kata-soljic-experienced-a-tragedy-never-before-experienced-in-our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107: Vukovar mother Kata \u0160olji\u0107 experienced a tragedy never before experienced in our history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended in Vukovar today the unveiling of a monument to Kata \u0160olji\u0107 and her sons. He thanked the organizers and benefactors for erecting the monument and noted that they did a good thing, but that the job\u2019s not finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat you\u2019re doing is a struggle against oblivion. It\u2019s an ongoing struggle in a person\u2019s life because one\u2019s greatest fear is fear from the horror of nothingness, when you are no longer, when nobody speaks of you anymore. Kata \u0160olji\u0107 is a mother who experienced a tragedy never before experienced in the history of our culture and identity. Our culture and our identity are European. We are a European people and nation\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his address he also referred to the monument to the fallen Vukovar defenders in Kupres, Bosnia and Herzegovina recently desecrated. \u201cIn the heart of the Kupres plateau is a monument to Vukovar defenders, near a road in the middle of nowhere: a monument to the Vukovar defenders who had survived the siege of Vukovar in 1991 and immediately came to the rescue of their brothers and fellow combatants in Kupres in 1992, and perished. Fate decreed that they would survive Vukovar, and perish there. That monument was destroyed a few days ago, under cover of darkness some very brave guys stopped and showed what they thought of it\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 noted, confident that repairing the monument in Kupres will be the next task for the organizers and initiators of the monument to Kata \u0160olji\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We must not lose enthusiasm. You created the country \u2013 it is good, and especially dear because it is ours. We have no other and nobody but us really cares about it. Others either do not care about it or have something against it. That country besides being dear to us must be good, must be healthy, must be successful and an instrument to achieve our goals. These goals have always been noble, modest, simple, elementary human needs. Croatia fought for this, you fought for this, Kata Solji\u0107\u2019s sons have fallen for this\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 noted in concluding his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The monument to Kata \u0160olji\u0107, symbol of tragedy and suffering in the Homeland War and her fallen sons Niko, Ivo, Mijo and Mato, is the work of academic sculptor Veno Jerkovi\u0107, and was erected thanks to the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Guards Brigade Association, \u201cOluja\u201d Association of Podstrana, the City of Vukovar and the Municipality of Podstrana and retired lieutenant colonel Mirko \u010condi\u0107, who initiated the erection of the monument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing the gathering besides President Milanovi\u0107 were the president of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Guards Brigade Association Borislav Lapenda, the president of the Council for the Defenders of the City of Vukovar Tomislav Josi\u0107, on behalf of wartime physicians Homeland War volunteer and member of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Guards Brigade academician Mirna \u0160itum, daughter of Kata \u0160olji\u0107 Marija \u0160olij\u0107 Bari\u0161i\u0107, first commander of the defense of Vukovar lieutenant colonel Ivica Arbanas, project coordinator lieutenant colonel Mirko \u010condi\u0107, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Croatian Veterans\u2019 Affairs and delegate of the Prime Minister Tomo Medved, and member of the Croatian Parliament and delegate of the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament Marijana Bali\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--GALLERY BLOCK-->\n<div class=\"c-lightbox-gallery js-lightbox\">\n                <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9176-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9176-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9183-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9183-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9431-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9431-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9434-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9434-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9532-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9532-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9579-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9579-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9712-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DSC_9712-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n        <\/div>\n<!--end GALLERY BLOCK-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Marko Beljan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended in Vukovar today the unveiling of a monument to Kata \u0160olji\u0107 and her sons. 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