During the existence of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, military events were glorified, war veterans and heroes enjoyed public recognition. Under the German occupation, all memories of World War I were suppressed by the invaders and puppet states that had divided the country. In Tito's Yugoslavia, the authorities made several attempts to erase the remembrance about World War I from historical memory, and subsequently tried to present the military events as a simple introduction to the revolutionary partisan struggle of 1941-1945. After 1991, the events of World War I were moved to the periphery of public attention. In the first decade of the 21st century, the hard days of World War I were used in Serbian cinema to form anti-war and pacifist sentiments, shifting the focus of attention from victories and heroes to victims and the senselessness of resistance.
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