June in Lipik with linden tree and Spirits

The Past

by Me

Linden blossom in Lipik, and an intense smell of their flowers spread everywhere in the countryside. Beautiful it is a city in Moslavina, full of greenery and scents that are smelling in June this beautiful, peaceful towns. For a long time I encountered a city that has such a beautiful park. Specifically, the first association was to try it on the kind of famous Lipizzaner horses, which are also the brand of this city through which he got the name. Horses are not able to see it, just know that they are somewhat after the war have returned from Serbia in poor condition. I guess they are located somewhere in the countryside Lipika. Lipik is a city that has its cultural and natural values and resources for which is widely known, for example, the springs with medicinal water. In it are housed various spas and hospitals. The goal of our trip was organized an exhibition of art-club Podravka Multicultural Center library in Lipik. We arrived a little earlier in Zagreb, to stroll through the city and toured its  sights and beauty. City apparently looks clean and tidy, where only the occasional passerby, no crowds or intense automobile traffic. Reminds me of a previous epoch, which tells its own story. What startled me in a situation where there is most of the houses, which are still visible traces of the consequences of war, and attack enemy shrapnel. These houses are part of history, and it was on them the time has stopped. They are completely empty, half-ravaged and destroyed, with a break windows. To conclude that these were great houses, villas and other important community facilities.

spirits in Lipik

There are many. In fact half of Lipika the appearance of past times. Constantly bothered me that question, why were not renewed, and why no one in them is not living. These are actually the house of the spirits. From the bosom of their growing trees, nettles and brambles. It looks like from the movie "Day After", devastated tornado and cataclysmic impact. I stopped a passerby, an elderly gentleman, who was next to us passing on your old bike, so I asked him why these houses were not renewed, and apparently do not belong to anyone. I got the answer, if you have your home owners who are not in Croatia, but elsewhere, and majority of them do not belong to the Croatian people. Our country wants to buy that house, but at a reasonable cost, to restore them and give them a function, but the owners are looking for enormous sums of money that they can not pay for Croatia, especially in this period of economic crisis and stagnation. I have a feeling that the aggressor is still sitting in Croatia in Lipik,

demanding ransom for the house which he himself destroyed. It is difficult to understand the story at all, let alone understand. Namely, how situcaije in Croatia is not just something great, whether because of ignorance, poverty, inertia, nevaljalih law, like bushes and nettles will continue to grow from these houses, while nature takes over completely, just when those in Detroit, whose people always went in search of a better future, regardless of what they all left behind. Neglect is neglect and the Croatian Government or the State is unable to issue such a deal. Instead of this horsing sanctions and the award of major punishment acts as an inert spectator and nihilist. This is another big minus our state politics and government, to the shame of the Croatian people.

artists of  Podravka in Lipik