The arson attack in which the old residence (konak) of the Patriarchate of Pec burned down on this day in 1981, during the days of major demonstrations by Kosovo Albanians, was the first in a series of events over the following four and a half decades in which Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo would become the target of extremists, interlocutors of Kosovo Online point out. The process of destruction of Serbian heritage, which continues even today, they warn, is not limited to its physical dimension; it is also occurring simultaneously on another level, where the past is falsified and Serbian cultural heritage is “Kosovized.”