Stephen Quotes
Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury and has he came into office he discovered that the United States did not have enough money to last the month. To stave off national bankruptcy, Gallatin approached Stephen Girard, then the richest man in America who himself bought and he offered to sell United States bonds to his friends and associates at a very low rate. He saved the young nation.
This is an excellent description of the practice of the Serbians of remembering a great defeat as a holiday whereas almost every other culture celebrates victories or positive happenings in their history. The Serbian hatred of the Muslims is stoked every year and this celebration was partially responsible for the atrocities and war crimes committed against the Bosnian Muslims in the Balkans War. Note that there was a different spelling of Yugoslavia in the 1920s. The pronunciation was the same.