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A chapter in the history of Belgrade, written for 134 years, was closed. The main station has stopped operating. The site, around the imposing station building, will turn into a small "Dubai", promises Arab investors who have undertaken the redevelopment of the right bank of the Savva. The inhabitants of the city are saddened to be sacrificed on the altar of modernization part of the history of this city.
The long whistling whistle of the Carbonian on September 1, 1884 marked the beginning of Belgrade Central Station. Thousands of early-morning townspeople gathered around the imposing building that emerged in the midst of the infamous neighborhood called "Gypsy Bar", later renamed "Bara Venecia".
The architect Dragundin Milutinovic and the makers of France were proud to offer a building of European specifications to the newly established capital of the Serbian state. King Michael Obrenovic, who was one of the largest and most beautiful railway stations in Europe, was also proud of him
. Strong complaints, let alone rumors, about corruption when he ordered the construction of the project. in a French company, did not prevent the newly won king from attending the inauguration and even being the first pbadenger traveling to Vienna. In the same year, the first train to the south, the city of Nis, was launched from this station and thus became a hub of the interconnection of Western Europe with l & # 39; East. In 1888, he joined Orient Express transit stations.
And what he did not know about Belgrade Station in its long history. Army of winners and losers, hordes of conquerors, caravans of refugees and immigrants. From this station began the Serbian troops for the victorious wars of the Balkans, but here also came the troops occupying Austro-Hungarian and Nazi Germany. From there, Jews and Gypsies were taken to the death camps. This station was the last image that they took of their city … During the Second World War, the central station of Belgrade was repeatedly bombed by the Nazis as well as by the allies. However, he remained upright and welcomed the liberators, the Red Army and supporters of Tito. New conquests started! From there, the dream of a better world began to build. Always echoing in the corridors of the station the songs of the young volunteers who continued to build in the railways of the hinterland, roads, lagoons, bridges …
And when history brought them friends became enemies from here leaving the troops on the border with Hungary from where the Soviet intervention was expected, while, at the same time, the wagons with Stalin's supporters drifted away from a steep corridor. This station will also be expelled from the Greek political refugees who supported the Stalin line in the 1948 conflict with Tito. "When we loaded them onto the pbadenger cars, they were hung on the windows shouting slogans against Tito and depreciating, they rode and stole the dinars of socialist Yugoslavia that we had given them, "said Javo Capicic, then commander of the Security and Information Service (OZNA), at the APE-MPA in 2014. In In the 1960s and 1970s, the migrants who went to work in Germany left, poor people who looked behind their glbad dazzled the silhouettes of their children, tearing their tears and tearing their hearts.These same children will be waiting for them on their return, but they do not will not recognize them, and here at this station, the foreigners who divorced them from their loved ones
For the Greek immigrants, Belgrade station was a stopover on the trip to Germany where the car change was taking place. The Greek cars of "The Acropolis Express" were removed and German added. The smell of the country was lost, and the faces of loved ones began to fade into memory. Here at Belgrade Station, Greek immigrants realized that it was too late to regret and that the sadness became even greater. On returning from the course, the climate was different. Changing wagons was no longer an effort, and stuffed suitcases with clothes, toys and chocolates looked like feathers. Belgrade meant for them that it was "a breathless road" to hold their children in their arms. A few years later, Acropolis Express brought another generation of Greek immigrants, students. Young people with dreams and aspirations will be frightened for the first time at the center door of the resort looking for knowledge that will provide them with a better future. They will cross this door several times and the station building will always cause nostalgia and thirst for the homeland.
Belgrade Central Station will not be able to take over trains
The imposing building will become a historical museum and around it will be scraped skyscrapers of concrete, steel and of glbad that will try to steal his glamor. In vain! Because this building has a soul built from the life of little people with a great soul. From his mother's teasing of a soldier who goes to the front, the mourning cry of the father who receives the coffin of his son, the frightened look of the persecuted, the anguish and pain of immigrants, the tears of the children who bid farewell to their parents. All this is a soul! But also the joys, the dreams, the hopes, the expectations, the warm kiss on the cold benches of the first corridor … even the gullible prostitute who "catches" the customers at the entrance is a soul!
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