The title is a quote from Sergej Trifunović's statement about today's protests. What do Svetlana Ceca Bojković, Gorica Popović, Dragan Velikić and Zoran Hamović say about the March 15 protest?
When asked if she knows which of her colleagues is in Saturday, March 15th on the street, Svetlana Ceca Bojković says - everyone.
"I, who remember very well October 5, 2000, can compare that, for us so far, the biggest gathering, and this one today." Now there are many, many, more people than a quarter of a century ago, those two groups are simply not comparable. "The mood is more positive, it's stronger, everything is different," says Svetlana Bojković.
And her colleague Sergej Trifunović believes that today's meeting and the Fifth of October are incomparable.
"Not only because now there are incomparably more people than then." Then we defended the election results, and this is a holiday, a holiday of people who want to live life. Personally, I like this one better because it's not a revolution, it's an evolution. To quote my colleague Miloš Timotijević, who said the other day that we may not have won a state, but we have a society. That's more than enough for a start because we haven't been together for a long time. On the fifth of October there was a revolution, after which evolution did not come. And this today is the evolution that will bring about the final revolution," says Sergej Trifunović.
Actress Gorica Popović points out: "What is impossible not to notice right away is that it is a much larger number of people than on the Fifth of October."
"And everyone is smiling, in a good mood, we have new faith in a better life, something we have forgotten what it looks like." This is magnificent, never seen before!", says Gorica Popović.
Dragan Velikić says that he was in Germany in 2000 and that he has no personal impression of the Fifth of October, "but I can see this now, and I see that despite everything this government did to prevent people from Serbia from coming to Belgrade today, people succeeded. They came, they are here. This is fascinating, impressive. The number is huge. And there is no fear."
When mentioning the news that tractors placed around Pionirski Park punctured reservoirs and that there is a possibility of a fire, Dragan Velikić says:
"It is known who burned Rome - Nero, not the Romans."
Zoran Hamović, director and editor-in-chief of the publishing house Clio, says that "a large number of people at today's gathering are speaking in support of the fact that the government has been delegitimized and without their formal resignation. The people told them what they cannot accept: the government has fallen.
Hamović believes that "just as the Fifth of October should not be compared with one day, only with October 5, 2020, but with the process by which a solution was reached, the meeting on Saturday should also be placed in a wider context that led to it. In that sense, I think the current process is politically more effective. And that's why today is significant, historically important."
Hamović says that despite all the differences between the Fifth of October and today's gathering, history repeats itself.
"The truth, in a slightly different form: Slobodan Milošević brought tanks to the street, and Aleksandar Vučić tractors, which is adapted to the opinion and thinking of the populist government."
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