145 years ago, in September 1880, Patriarch Varnava (Petar) Rosić ☦️ was born in Pljevlja 🇷🇸

He was the 40th head of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1930 to 1937.

During WW1, he took part in the Great Serbian Retreat of 1915, reaching Corfu 🇬🇷 along with his people.

1/4 ⬇️ Patriarch Varnava ☦️ subsequently restored numerous Orthodox churches and took charge of church life in Old Serbia 🇷🇸 (Macedonia).

He initiated the construction of the edifice of the great Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade—one of the largest churches in the world.

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🧵 105 years ago today, in 1920, the western Serbian town of Šabac 🇷🇸 was exceptionally awarded the French 'Croix de Guerre' 🇫🇷 (War Cross).

A WW1 martyr, the town's population was reduced by half during the genocidal occupation by Austria-Hungary 🇦🇹|🇭🇺

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Šabac 🇷🇸 was the first target of the Austro-Hungarian 🇦🇹|🇭🇺 punitive expedition and the site of many atrocities committed against the local population.

3 weeks after the start of the War, 120 inhabitants—mostly women, children and the elderly, who had previously been…

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Cinema legend Mel Gibson 🇺🇸 on his recent pilgrimage to the Serbian Orthodox Hilandar Monastery 🇷🇸 and Mount Athos 🇬🇷 during Vidovdan ☦️

A thread 🧵

1/10 ⬇️ In the company of monk Niphon the Serb ☦️—ascetic of the Karoulia skete in the Desert of Mt. Athos 🇬🇷

Hidden away in the cliffs above the sea, the cave can only be reached by rope or ladder.

On the wall, a photo of Serbian Chetnik resistance leader, Draža Mihailović 🇷🇸

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🧵 25 years ago, in June 2000, soldiers of the NATO “KFOR” occupation force in the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija 🇷🇸 discovered more than 6 tonnes of weapons belonging to Albanian terrorists of the so-called “KLA” 🇦🇱 hidden in four bunkers in Klečka near Lipljan.

1/11 ⬇️ According to reports, the armament was sufficient to equip two infantry companies.

Following the confiscation of the weapons, a wave of attacks and crimes against local Serbs 🇷🇸 broke out over the next three weeks.

10 Serbian civilians were killed in retaliation.

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🧵 Last week, ex-US Senator Bob Menendez 🇺🇸 was sentenced to 11 YEARS in jail for a corruption scheme involving bribes from foreign lobby groups—including Albanian 🇦🇱 ones.

A pro-Albanian & anti-Serb campaigner, he himself lobbied for the secession of Kosovo-Metohija 🇷🇸

1/11 ⬇️ Menendez was caught with gold bars and cash, proving once again the extent of Albanian 🇦🇱 criminal influence in American 🇺🇸 politics against Serbia's 🇷🇸 interests.

Menendez was a key player in the Albanian mafia's playbook, pushing for Kosovo's illegal "independence".

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On 8 January 1943, the Sisak II children's concentration camp was shut down.

Established in July 1942 by the Croatian 🇭🇷 Nazi Ustasha regime, over 1,600 Serbian 🇷🇸 & Jewish ✡️ children were murdered there in just 5 months: one of the worst atrocities in modern history.

1/8 ⬇️ Most of the children's parents had been killed by the Croats or deported to Nazi Germany 🇩🇪 to work as slaves, especially women.

This section of the broader camp was administered by Croatian physician Antun Najžer 🇭🇷

He personally killed children with lethal injections.

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65 years ago, Ante Pavelić 🇭🇷—the genocidal Nazi Croatian WW2 leader of the bloodthirsty Ustaše—died in Madrid 🇪🇸

Between 1941 & 1945, he led a regime of unparalleled savagery, responsible for the massacre of over 700,000 Serbs 🇷🇸 30,000 Jews ✡️ and 25,000 Roma ☸️

1/5 ⬇️ A genocide so brutal it shocked even the Third Reich 🇩🇪

Under Pavelić's rule, the Nazi-puppet "Independent State of Croatia 🇭🇷" became a theater of horror.

Massacres & death camps like Jasenovac were scenes of unimaginable cruelty where civilians were tortured & killed.

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Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić 🇭🇷—a name synonymous with Croatian Ustaše savagery.

Luburić was the architect of the Croatian Nazi genocidal machine during WW2, leading the death camps and mass massacres in which more than 700,000 Serbs 🇷🇸 and 30,000 Jews ✡️ were slaughtered.

1/8 ⬇️ Luburić 🇭🇷 turned the Ustaša camps into slaughterhouses.

There, Serbian 🇷🇸 blood was spilled with such barbarity that even the Nazis 🇩🇪 were appalled.

Under his command, the methods of killing were horrific, earning him the nickname "Maks the Butcher."

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Five days later—on St Nicholas' Day ☦️—60 Serbian 🇷🇸 civilians, including 21 women & 3 children under the age of 10, were brutally massacred by Bosnian Islamist ☪️ criminal forces in Gornja Jošanica near Foča in eastern Republika Srpska.

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https://twitter.com/serbianspirit_/status/1868028801776824446

10-year-old Dragana Višnjić 🇷🇸 had her head smashed against a wall.

Her 8-year-old little brother Dražen & 2-year-old Danka Tanović were also tortured & murdered by the Muslims ☪️

Victims were stabbed multiple times, had their throats slit & body parts mutilated.

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📸 : Italian General Alessandro Luzano 🇮🇹 stands over a slaughtered Serbian 🇷🇸 child in front of the Prebilovci school.

🧵On 6 August 1941, 850 Serbian women & children were massacred by the barbaric Croatian 🇭🇷 Ustaše Nazis in the village of Prebilovci in Herzegovina.

1/16 ⬇️ 296 of the martyrs were children under the age of 14, thrown alive in the nearby Golubinka pit.

From 1941 to 1945, more than 700,000 Serbs 🇷🇸 were murdered in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina & northern Serbia by the bloodthirsty Nazi-aligned Croatian Ustaša regime 🇭🇷

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🧵 21 October 1991 marked the end of the Gospić massacre.

In 3 days, 240 Serbian 🇷🇸 civilians from the town were abducted and murdered by Croatian 🇭🇷 criminal forces. Dozens are still missing.

Many of the victims—women & men—were prominent local Serbian intellectuals…

1/6 ⬇️ ➡️ including doctors, judges and professors.

Like the rest of murdered Serbian civilians, they were loyal to Zagreb 🇭🇷 and refused to join the Republic of Serbian Krajina 🇷🇸—making their executions all the more heinous.

The ethnic cleansing was meticulously planned.

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🧵On 14 October 1941, the Kraljevo massacre began in western occupied-Serbia 🇷🇸

More than 4,000 Serbian civilians—children, women & men—were massacred by the Nazi occupying forces of the German 🇩🇪 Reich in retaliation for the resistance of the local Chetniks & Partisans.

1/5 ⬇️ Several hundred civilians were forced to dig their own mass graves before being shot in groups of 100.

Later, whole families were slaughtered in their homes in Kraljevo 🇷🇸 and surrounding villages.

Almost all the men aged between 14 and 60 were killed by the Germans 🇩🇪

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🧵Remembering Branka Đukić: the tragic revenge story of a father for his murdered daughter that exposed the suffering of the Serbian people in Kosovo-Metohija 🇷🇸 at the hands of Albanian 🇦🇱 extremists…

1/11 ⬇️ On 2 September 1975, Branka Đukić, a 18-year-old Serbian girl from Plav, was assaulted by two Albanians 🇦🇱—Rustem Hasanmetaj & Gani Kurmehaj—while on her way back from her first day at her new school in Peć, in the Serbian southern province of Kosovo-Metohija 🇷🇸

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