Belgrade marks 100 years of liberation in WW1

The same is true of "cooperation and peace with everyone, because only in peace can they continue to build and elevate our one and only Serbia," Vucic said in Belgrade, according to the Serbian government.

Speaking at a ceremony at the Sava Center on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade in the First World War, Vucic said that Serbia must respect itself and that just as she knew back then how to defend her freedom with weapons, if someone threatens that freedom today she will again know how to defend it.

I am asking everyone not to understand all this that I say as our weakness, because as we knew in 1914, 1915 and 1918 to defend and liberate our Serbia, we will succeed in the future if someone touches our country, said the President of Serbia.

According to him, after the breach of the Thessaloniki (Macedonian) front, the First Army of Voivoda Peter Bojovic was chasing the enemy non-stop, going from one assault to another, it freed Serbia all at once, from its south - Vranje, Vladicin Han, Grdelica and Leskovac to Nis, from where the occupying forces were expelled on 12 October 1918.

He recalled that in just 46 days the Serbian army, in a liberation move, passed 800 kilometres from Thessaloniki to Belgrade, when the Komitas entered Belgrade on this day in the early dawn in 1914, as predecessors of the First Army.

Vucic pointed out that somewhere in this city, among the memories that have been so often built one over another, in the streets that have crossed through centuries, in its turmoil in the history which is magical as much as the city itself, there is still that old trace - the First Army, November, Bojovic, freedom and Belgrade.

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