Parks and Partisans

Here's a little memorial to Tito's partisans who liberated Yugoslavia (before it was Yugoslavia). Behind Mr. Partisan is a what was once a nice little park, that had many large shade-providing trees. The new mayor systematically cut down all the trees within a month of his inauguration and most recently had all the plastic kiosk stores that surrounded the park torn down. Business owners aside, I think everyone is happy the park perimeter is free from profuse purveyors of purposeless products sold from plastic palaces.

That said, its unfortunate the city had to lose all its trees. Word on the street is that a new park will be built in place of the old park, but I am pretty sure at least some of the trees could have been saved in the process.