After the war , Yugoslavia became a socialist state under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito . Maksimović was reinstated as a professor at the First High School for Girls . In 1946 , she published a collection of war poems titled '' Pesnik i zavičaj '' ( The Poet and His Native Land ) . The collection contained one of her best known poems , '' Krvava bajka '' ( A Bloody Fairy Tale ) , a requiem for the children killed in the Kragujevac massacre of October 1941 . Although she was not a communist , her works received the approval of the Yugoslav government . Maksimović was a fervent Russophile , and at times , her Russophilia was mistaken for covert Cominformism , a serious charge in the years following the Tito – Stalin Split , that if proven , could have landed a person in prison . Maksimović retired from teaching in 1953 . In 1958 , to mark her 60th birthday , Maksimović received a number of awards from the Yugoslav government and literary establishment . The following year , she received partial membership in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( SANU )
Kragujevac massacre
Kragujevac massacre
Desanka Maksimović