ASNOM MEMORIAL (НА МЕМОРИЈАЛЕН ЦЕНТАР МЕМОРИЈАЛЕН)

Inaugurated in 2004, this monument is located in the village of Pelince (pronounced «pé-lin-tsé»), 5 km southwest of the Serbian border. He is dedicated to the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the Liberation of the Macedonian People (ASNOM).

History. Resistance movement fighting the Nazi occupier, ASNOM advocated a unifying of the peoples of Vardar in Socialist Yugoslavia, but was considered too autonomist by Tito. Upon liberation, the Belgrade authorities accused the pro-Bulgarian treason movement and organized the deportation of many of its militants. According to some sources, up to 50,000 people were victims of this repression. This page of history has long remained a taboo within Socialist Yugoslavia and remains an object of conflict with Serbia. The first meeting of the ASNOM was held in Serbia, in the monastery Saint-Prochore-de-la-Pčinja (9 km northeast), on August 2, 1944. As the Serbian Orthodox Church refused to commemorate the monastery, the Memorial was built nearby, in the territory of the Republic of Macedonia.

Monument. Inaugurated on August 2, 2004, on the occasion ^{of the 60 th anniversary of the historic meeting, the building is the work of the great architect Georgi Konstantinovski, who owes several monuments of the Skopje post earthquake. The colorful mosaic of the façade, with a surface of 140 m 2, was realized by contemporary artists Rubens Korubin and Ilija Penushliski. The ASNOM Memorial is one of the most symbolic places of the young Republic of Macedonia, where every year, on August 2, the country's politicians come to the country.}