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The Tomb of the Undefeated (heroes) -1961 In 1960, the mayor of Prilep invited Bogdanović to erect the memorial monument in honor of the fallen fighters during the People's Liberation Struggle (NOB). The monument had to be ready for the 20th jubilee. In only a year, the monument was built—the fastest ever. Bogdan Bogdanovik, the partisan among the architects, an artist among the architects, created this monumental memorial in its entirety even though he was convinced that "a world that does not need monuments is happier than the one that needs them". In Prilep, as elsewhere, Bogdanovic worked on the spot: "I built this field of urns on the spot-in citu, with a thread and a brass plumb (visok), as the real masters did in the ancient past times." His monuments are architectural works and urban planning projects, with stairs, paths, walls, and monuments... are imagined cities in honor of the dead—necropolises where living people celebrate the lives of the living. This architectural ensemble consists of a memorial urns and a common tomb of fallen fighters, but also an accessible curved path along which visitors sneak up, approaching the slope wide open to the sky and the dramatic landscape, riddled with tectonic changes. Each figure consists of three blocks of stone: the lower two—the geometric part—and the upper one—the artistic block. Bogdanovic presented these eight ancient urns, or deformed classic ionic pillars, or female figures, or... whatever you want to see in them... as a group of ancient goddesses of fertility, but after expressed dissatisfaction from competent clients—those times the authorities of Prilep—he immediately renamed them goddesses of victory. This raised plateau reminds us of a stage where 8 artists are performing a kind of dance. It may be a ritual funeral dance performed by clairvoyants (fortune tellers)... There is no flag, no flame, not even the five-point star... But there is the biggest urn, which could be the eternal flame – a symbol of incompliance (disobedience) of the Macedonian people,... Or it could also be the male figure guarding the space for the safe living of female figures, or it could be a fez-tarboosh, the oriental symbol, a reminiscence of the Ottoman empire that ruled the Balkans for 5 centuries, or even the Christ worshiped by previous pagans... The figures are surreal because their heads have two faces: one in profile and one in full frontal view. They are made of local Prileps marble, sculpted by local masters, and prised by Bogdanovic: they have a mental connection with the marble; they work and understand its soul; and they know if it is good or healthy by listening to the sound of carving. communicate with the stone as it is a living creature. In the other part, there is a crypt with the remains of the fallen fighters. Their names are engraved on marble slabs (плоча). The crypt is in the shape of a womb. It is open to the north, to the town of Prilep—a scene to which every citizen has a right, where the population lives, where new citizens will be born. ... He approached the creation of monuments as a game. That he successfully completed the task is shown by the interest of the children who play with them with pleasure. He invited children from the nearest school and hid himself in the bush. After they stared at their game, he walked through, and he was not noticed by the children carried away in the game. He walked away and expressed gratitude to the local old man who suggested the location of the nearest hill "where there was a park before WW2". He was always thrilled by childish curiosity. "Every Greek builder would be happy to build in this area." The Tomb lives with people—regardless of whether they are the citizens of Prilep or the visitors, in every part of the day here you can find children who play hide and seek, senior citizens on a walk, adults, or young people who are in love or will fall in love, or even solitaries who enjoy the loneliness... everyone loves The Thomb, respects her, adores her. In the eighties of the 20th century, во Белград, Јасеновац, Гаравица, Прилеп, Мостар и Крушевац. He developed a completely new commemoration of memories expressed through stone monuments. Bogdanovic was also the chief architect of Belgrade... He wrote a letter to Milosevic of 60 pages, after which he was declared a traitor to the Serbian people. Тој го искористи истиот метод подоцна во Вуковар. Београду[2], Јасеновцу, Гаравицама[4], Прилепу, Мостару и Крушевцу. Роден во Белград во 1922 а живеел во Виена од 1993. Умрел 2010. Спомен-комплекс је ревитализован у периоду од 2007. до 2008. Године j