Slovak, Czech soldiers commemorated in Kragujevac

KRAGUJEVAC - A wreath-laying ceremony at the military cemetery complex in Kragujevac marked the traditional Serbian and Slovakian commemorative event in memory of Slovak and Czech soldiers who were executed in the city in 1918.

The wreaths were laid by State Secretary at the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Dragan Popovic, officials of the Slovakian Embassy in Belgrade, Serbian Armed Forces and Ministry of Defense, and the Mayor of Kragujevac Veroljub Stevanovic.

In the last year of World War One, a mutiny broke out in the Austro-Hungarian 71st Trencín infantry regiment, consisting mostly of Slovaks and a smaller number of Czechs. The mutiny was suppressed and 44 soldiers court-martialed and executed by firing squad on June 21, 1918 at Stanovljanska polja.

The 71st infantry regiment came to Kragujevac from Russia after the signing of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty in March 1918.

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