Serbian Warriors

There is a never ending discussion about fencing skill of the samurai and western warriors and who would win in a duel. Such  duel actually happened and the winner is western warrior. Alexander Lexo Saichich was born on 5 August 1873 in the village of Vinicka in Berane.  Lekso graduated from high school in Dubrovnik from where he went to Belgrade to study at the Infantry school in Serbian Military Academy. After Belgrade he spent three years serving in Montenegro .  He wanted to improve his military skills and gain more experience and progress  headed for Istanbul to join the Turkish army and served as one of the  Emperor's  personal bodyguards  where he also spent three years.  When Japan declared war to Russia , Serbia and Montenegro as a support to Russia declared war to Japan and send each several companies of voluntaries. Alexander Lekso Sajčić  joined  Montenegro units with a rank of lieutenant . He was one of the bravest soldiers of that war and many stories of his bra

The origins of the First World War lay in Austro-Serbian antagonism. After occupying predominantly Serbian territory of Bosnia and Hertzegovina in 1908.  Austro-Hungarian Monarchy considered Serbia as a natural next step in their colonial expansion and tried to provoke the war at any cost. For years Austrian press was dehumanizing Serbian people, portrait them as lesser beings, preparing its people to physically destroy the whole nation. Serbian sculls as a birthday present to Austrian emperor  "Once upon a time there was Serbia, now all Serbian are hanged, only sheeps left ." On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student and member of a multi-ethnic organization of national revolutionaries called Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The political objective of the assassination was the independence of the southern Austro-Hungarian provinces mainly populated