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Protest in Belgrade to which citizens were invited Students in the blockade many understood it as the Day of the Day in the history of Serbia. It must be said that the student plenums rejected this connotation from the beginning, reminding that the end will be when they say so, that is, when the demands are fulfilled. Unfortunately, the historical significance of this event was primarily given by the government, which wanted to create an atmosphere of civil war through the media. In all possible ways, the Great Scare began, which very often took on bizarre forms.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE DIRECTED BY THE AUTHORITIES

In the arsenal of the "end of the world" were allergies, lunar eclipse, temperature drop, retrograde Venus and finally - Romanian obijars. "Informer" and other political tabloids scared citizens that 150 Romanians would come and search their apartments during the protest. On that occasion, the Embassy of Romania even announced itself, asking for an explanation of this insane fabrication. It is incredible that Romanians were chosen as the villains, and not, say, Bulgarians or Albanians (with whom throughout history we share long periods of enmity), so the only association I have is Marinika, who has already been named, who as an opposition politician would have to have something to do with the mob. You remember, she was already called out by Bokan in one of his sermons because of her nationality.

The civil war was also embodied by the arrest of "terrorists" from Novi Sad. An irresponsible and naive group of up-and-coming activists, during the session of the PSG municipal board, was banging on about causing unrest. Youth is certainly no excuse for unconsciousness, as Koja from Discipline's Spine said, but I really cannot understand this group of conspirators as a serious threat to order and the state. It seems to me more like a sign of the inability of the domestic opposition to match the size and significance of the student protests.

Vučić dragged tractors, tents, and barbed wire into the yard of the Presidency and started negotiations with the 2.0 students. This dramatic farce turned into a sad story about poor and rich students, wet feet, baking and pies. The "I am Ćaci" movement was also promoted, through which Vučić and SNS supporters tried to define themselves as poor and honest sandwich makers. The fact that Belgrade is practically blocked on the eve of March 15, the President explains by the fact that his opponents have their own cars, they have money for lunch in a restaurant because they are rich.

Bizarre was also the fabricated report about bombs in trains, which the anti-sabotage units examined for two whole days. Imagine that after a bomb report, you wait two days for the police to tell you that everything is okay. In Serbia, we have had such situations hundreds of times and the examination lasted a few hours at most. Intercity buses also did not run only to Belgrade, again inexplicably, and city traffic was also abolished.

During the 15th of March, but also in the evening of the 14th, when the students' reception was organized in the evening, the number of participants was minimized. On the media controlled by the government, we watched the man in Pionirski Park thrashing his genital organ for the longest time among the protesters. Fortunately, no one thought to interview him in that state, although the TV geek in me might have rejoiced at that historic moment. Maybe the kuronja is actually a provocateur. Vandalism of tractors without plates was widely reported. I would also like to remind you of the, to put it mildly, unusual message of the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Porfirije that "the youth of Serbia of all ages is protected?!" This is probably a collective term for students, citizens and citizens of all ages.

The height of the government's paranoia was seen through the decision of the RTS management to broadcast the entire program of RTS on Saturday from the "Slagalice" studio. Instead of jumping, the presenters changed, and the guests took the positions of contestants. Dacic was thus a "red competitor" who failed in all games.

Broadcasts from the gathering on Friday and Saturday were broadcast only in moderation on RTS, while journalists and reporters from N1 and Insider television carried the brunt of the burden.

MEDIA MATCHMAKING AND UNWORTHY INSTITUTIONS

On the night of March 15, there was a striking celebration on Informer television - Đuka, friends and DJV celebrated the breaking up of the demonstrations with a song, "hit the wind a little over the liver" and shouts "how Vule beats". Thus, what thousands of people felt during the delivery of mail to those who died at the very end of the protest was actually confirmed live. The story of the "sound cannon" became more important in the media than the fact that several hundred thousand citizens gathered in Belgrade. "Cannon" instead of peaceful demonstrations, as a cruel and excessive demonstration of power.

The reaction of thousands of citizens on videos and testimonies was explained as "edited, the result of panic and stampede"?!

On television, the media game "lety-lety" followed, that is, what is not...

It's not a sound cannon, it's not the police, it's not the Serbian Army, it's not the BIA, it's an increased number of citizens who complain about the same symptoms, but it's not from a cannon. This media matchmaking seemed like a failed game of associations in "Jigsaw Puzzle". Hence, it is not surprising the citizens' almost absolute distrust in the institutions of the system, along with the new and shameful discrediting of the army and the Church.

SAGA OF MEANINGLESSNESS

It can be said that in the worst sense, nothing is over, because the President appeared four times in the media already during the next day. One of the reasons is the trip with the entourage of journalists to the hospital among the patients from North Macedonia who are being treated in Serbia after the fire in Kočani.

A day of mourning was declared in Serbia, but the analysis of the obvious analogy where corruption leads to the loss of citizens' lives was avoided. During the transition in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, according to the same model, the main activity of political parties and leaders is to come and stay in power. Collapse of institutions and corruption that lead to accidents like Jablanica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a canopy in Novi Sad, or fires in homes for the elderly in Serbia, or in a discotheque in Kočani. The support and popularity of student movements outside of Serbia is largely based on the recognition of a similar social pathology in the region. The national sign is actually irrelevant here.

By comparison, the crime and corruption that killed 59 young people led to much more agile police and prosecution action in North Macedonia. They immediately arrested the suspects and seized all the documentation in the municipality and the competent ministry. In Serbia, after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, it took several months and it is not over yet. Despite the ban on visits to the hospital, shameful shots of seriously injured people, incomprehensible physical contact with patients, images from the shock room and stories about the sound cannon have appeared in the tabloids. All this is part of Vučić's PR performance after March 15. The Minister of Health of North Macedonia requested that photos with patients not be published, while his resigned colleague, Minister Lončar, falsifies the number of citizens who reported with symptoms after the demonstrations and the use of a "sound cannon" and says that they "declaim their complaints like a song."

Just imagine any doctor who would be similarly determined towards his patients.

It is completely irrelevant that the rumbling of weapons can be seen and heard on the videos, that the testimonies are really similar and authentic, the government's willingness to demonstrate force is shameless. In contrast to that relativization, the same minister was ready to put the fake attack on Ćaci into the category of endangering life.

The end of this saga about the nonsense of media propaganda for me is the heartbreaking In Memoriam, which Vučić addressed to Milorad Komrakov. The man who wore his profession saw his rise during the Milosevic and Vučić eras as a textbook example of political propaganda. He did not deserve to be lynched on October 5, but he symbolically left this world in Serbia, which, a quarter of a century after the fall of TV Bastille, of which he was the face, is once again ruled by almost complete media unanimity. Today, unfortunately, we have dozens of state-owned tabloids and RTS, where dozens of Komraks work, and who will violate all professional standards for the needs of the authorities. Unfortunately.

That's why, as the students said, it's not over!