 Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, local councillors in Smederevo campaigned to have the town's largest square named after Ljotić.Despite the ensuing controversy, the councillors defended Ljotić's wartime record and justified the initiative by stating that "[collaboration] ... is what the biological survival of the Serbian people demanded" during World War II.Later, the Serbian magazine "Pogledi" published a series of articles attempting to exonerate Ljotić.