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Protests and leaders: Students, protesters, politicians and others

December 17, 2021, 08:42 p.m F. Š

Exciting roar of the crowd: Dragan Đilas at the student protests in 1992.

It can be said that the history of multi-party Serbia is also the history of street protests, and that in almost all times of dramatic democratic deficit, there was a not so small number of citizens who were ready to go out into the streets to fight for political rights and protest against the abuse of power.

Of course, one can always talk about the extent to which protests are massive, whether or not they are politically articulated, how successful they were and how they ended - often with disappointment and lethargy. But it cannot be said that, regardless of everything, a number of people who did not give up the struggle to create a civilized and democratic society do not exist and do not survive here.

All those protests gave birth to new, until then unknown leaders, among others: Dragan Đilas 1991 / 92, Cedomir Jovanovic1996 / 97, Srđa Popović 1999 / 2000, Dobrica Veselinović i Radomir Lazović 2016 / 17, Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta i Sava Manojlović 2020 / 21 ...

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