Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin lays wreaths at Belgrade's New Cemetery to mark Victory Day

In order to mark May 9, Day of Victory over Fascism, Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vulin laid wreaths at the New Cemetery in Belgrade at the tombs of first anti-fascist interior ministers, Aleksandar Leka Rankovic and Slobodan Penezic Krcun.

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"Aleksandar Rankovic and Slobodan Penezic are members of a generation that put us on the better side of the world. With their lives, their sacrifices, they have shown that the Serbs are a freedom-loving people, a people who do not agree to blackmail coming from the powerful ones, a people who are ready to fight unconditionally for their freedom. Some other nations whose ancestors did not join the better side are angry with their ancestors, our ancestors won our place on the better side of the world, our ancestors put us among the winners and we will not and cannot lose that place," said Minister of the Interior Aleksandar Vulin.

Vulin added that he is proud of today's holiday and that President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic consistently adheres to Serb anti-fascist traditions. The minister stressed that there is no one bigger and more powerful than the Serbs when they are fighting for their freedom.

"There were those in the history of the Serb people who renounced their anti-fascist traditions, those who flattered powerful foreigners, those who removed evidence of our victories, so as not to show the magnitude of the defeat of the great and the powerful. Such times are gone forever. Aleksandar Vucic was not only the first Serbian prime minister to utter the words, NATO aggression, who had the courage to call a spade a spade, but he is also a man who consistently adheres to Serb anti-fascist traditions. In the same way, we in the Ministry of the Interior respect our anti-fascist predecessors, those who defeated the great and the powerful and showed us that there is no one bigger or more powerful than the Serbs when they are fighting for their freedom.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is celebrating Victory Day with due respect, remembering those who created this Ministry, infinitely proud of the anti-fascist tradition of the Serb people," said Minister Vulin.

Victory Day, May 9, is celebrated in memory of the day when Nazi Germany capitulated in 1945.

(Telegraf.rs)