The painting of the Serbian tricolor on the buildings of the Liman settlement in Novi Sad was declared by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić as a supreme patriotic act. So, patriots, brushes in hand and the direction of Andrić's wreath
To the residents of the Novi Sad settlement Port the red-blue-white paint applied several years ago on the buildings they live in bothered them, so they wanted to repaint them. The patriots from the Serbian Progressive Party, who don't live there, didn't like it, so they sent it a team with buckets full of paint and brushes to make sure that the colors of the Serbian tricolor shine brightly, the brightest. It came to bone-chilling and minor physical confrontations between progressive citizens and those who are not. A determined detachment of raiders of the Serbian Progressive Party won a great victory over the "anti-Serbs".
An anti-Serb is anyone who protests against the kleptocratic regime of Aleksandar Vučić - because Vučić equates himself with Serbianness, and SNS d.o.o. with the state, and in this particular case the people of Novi Sad who were bothered by the fact that the facades they see every day and the surrounding pillars are painted red-blue-white - either for aesthetic reasons, or because such a shoving in the nose of Serbian patriotism is simply stupid and primitive.
And here is the reason for the President of the Republic to get involved in everything and tell the "terrorist blockaders" that from now on they will encounter resistance from "decent" citizens, i.e. officials and activists of SNS, followed by those famous characters, wherever they block and threaten Serbia and Serbianness, i.e. him. This was the case at Stari Mercator in Belgrade, in Čačak, Vrbas, Bački Petrovac, Kosjerić, Novi Sad...
Patriots
"The patriots returned that (Liman 4) red, blue, white flag again," explained Vučić on Pink. And those patriots were not afraid of "them", the anti-state anti-Serbs who "hate nothing more than the Serbian tricolor". No one is afraid of them anymore, said the man with the presidential mandate, so in the future they should prepare for confrontations wherever they appear to destroy the state.
"They couldn't stand the red-blue-white colors on the buildings in Liman - clean, neatly painted. So, they were returned to the state they were in (when someone uninvited put them on the walls many years ago). They couldn't stand it for an hour, but they showed up and started again and painted something that looks ugly," Vučić explained to Pink viewers.
And what kind of corrupt traitors are those wonderful young, progressive people who bravely marched to Liman dealing with?
"For them, the Serbian flag, the Serbian tricolor is like a red scarf in a bullfight. Nothing provokes them and nothing annoys them and they hate nothing as much as the Serbian tricolor."
Brushes in hand
Since the president of the Republic of Serbia and the "supreme commander of the armed forces" declared the arbitrary painting of the Serbian tricolor on the walls of buildings as the highest patriotic act, the students in the blockade could please at least one incompetent institution and prove the opposite: to take buckets of red, blue and white paint and brushes in their hands and head towards Andrić's wreath to decorate the facades of the Presidency with the Serbian tricolor.
And when they are already there, they could also beautify the Old Palace, where another great Serbian patriot, Aleksandar Šapić, resides, cross Kralja Milan to number 14, where the Narodna Skushtina branch is located, and repaint it with the colors of the Serbian tricolor.
And why stop there when carrying out actions in the spirit of the newly proclaimed expression of patriotism from the highest place? Instead of whistling and loudly protesting in front of the buildings where prominent progressives live, the citizen's choirs could meet the aesthetic patriotic vision of the President of Serbia, let's make another round and in the spirit of graffiti patriotism and paint them according to the progressive pattern from Liman.
Instead of attacking them, and all in the spirit of reconciliation that Vučić also preaches, experienced progressive painters from Novi Sad could join them.
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