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Participants carry portraits of Stalin and Tito during the brief period of Yugoslav–Soviet alignment before the 1948 split.
The square is staged for mass ceremony and political display.
Today, the same space is arranged for everyday use: seating, greenery, and passing pedestrians replace the procession.
“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned…” - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)