International conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the attack of Nazi Germany and its allies on Yugoslavia held in Slovenia

April 14, 2021 the Slovenian Maribor at the International Research Center of World War II (ICM Maribor) hosted an online conference "Tomorrow Was War", timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the attack of Nazi Germany and its allies on Yugoslavia.

The organizers are the Russian House in Ljubljana and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Slovenia with the assistance of MITC Maribor and the Russian House in Belgrade. Famous scientists and public figures from Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Russia took part in the meeting.

The Maribor Research Center was established in 2017 It is located in the building of the former Nazi concentration camp Stalag, where in 1941-1942 about five thousand Soviet prisoners of war died from inhuman conditions of detention and torture.

The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Slovenia Timur Eyvazov, the head of the Russian House in Ljubljana Nikolai Gusev and the director of the ICC Maribor Janez Uychich addressed the participants and guests with welcoming words.

Within the framework of the conference, historical documents revealing the reasons for the attack on Yugoslavia and the details of the movement of the forces of the Hitler coalition across the peninsula, telling about the brutal bombing of Belgrade, the creation of occupation zones and the Nazi Croatian state, were presented. The event covered the topics of heroic resistance to the occupiers by the peoples of Yugoslavia and unprecedented resistance to the enemy by the partisan army operating in the Balkans.

A large number of materials about the Great Patriotic War are presented in the large-scale electronic collection of the Presidential Library Memory of the Great Victory. It includes official documents, photo and newsreels, newspapers and magazines, leaflets, posters, books, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies of combatants and home front workers, their personal documents, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes. The collection, which has been formed since 2010, is constantly updated with new materials.

Only a part of the unique digitized materials is posted on the Presidential Library’s portal and in the remote electronic reading rooms of the Presidential Library opened in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation and in 30 foreign countries.