Monument to Franc Rozman Stane
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Completed: 1975
Architects: Vladimir Braco Mušič (architect) and Janez Pirnat (sculptor)
Genre: Spomenik, Socialist monument, former Yugoslavia
Franc Rozman Stane was a Slovenian Partisan commander who was proclaimed a People’s Hero of Yugoslavia shortly after his death on 7th November 1944. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the Slovene partisan army and died as a consequence of a serious wound he received while testing a newly arrived PIAT anti-tank weapon sent by the British.
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