1970s VINTAGE SLIDE MOSTAR YUGOSLAVIA WITH RIZVATIZ SHIPPING MALL IN BACKGROUND for Sale

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1970s VINTAGE SLIDE MOSTAR YUGOSLAVIA WITH RIZVATIZ SHIPPING MALL IN BACKGROUND For Sale

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1970s VINTAGE SLIDE MOSTAR YUGOSLAVIA WITH RIZVATIZ SHIPPING MALL IN BACKGROUND:
$9.74

Vintage Vintage Kodak Transparency Slide
Unique photo of Mostar Yugoslavia with Rizvatiz Shopping Mall in Background
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Thanks for visiting.The shopping mall was opened in 1970. as “Razvitak” (lit. “development”), and according to the government at the time it was one of the 5 best commercial buildings in Yugoslavia. Like many buildings in Mostar, during the aggression 1992-1995 it was severely damaged and all the residential levels completely destroyed, which is an ongoing legal battle up to this day as the former residents and owners of those apartments received no material satisfaction for their lost property. One fact of the war in Bosnia is that Mostar is the city that suffered the biggest amount of physical and architectural destruction - which is unfortunately still visible. What I personally find most interesting are the exterior concrete panels which are decorated with motifs from stećak - gravestone monuments from the medieval period in Bosnia. Today the entrances to the building have been fenced and walls have been built to keep people out but the local citizens complain that the building is being used by squatters as well as people looting the building for scrap materials. Current state of the building: