The Red Fićo is one of the strangest and most touching war monuments in Croatia. A red Fiat 600 — the ubiquitous Yugoslav compact car known as a Fićo — sits on a pedestal near the city centre, a tribute to a small but famous act of defiance during the 1991–92 Yugoslav siege of Osijek.
When Serbian and Yugoslav forces besieged the city in the autumn of 1991, a young Osijek resident named Krešimir Buntić drove his red Fićo through the city streets every day despite the constant shelling and sniper fire. His daily circuits became a symbol of the city's refusal to be cowed. The original car was later given this place of honour; visitors leave flowers and notes. It is an unusual memorial — specifically Slavonian, specifically from that moment — and more affecting than most conventional war monuments.