Šapić's "quality" exhumation of Josip Broz Tito: Without a hawthorn stake in honor of Vučić Aleksandar

What connects Vojislav Šešelj and Aleksandar Šapić, doctors of science, apart from Aleksandar Vučić, who was subordinate to the first and the boss of the second? Josip Broz Tito and the removal of his remains from the "House of Flowers" in Dedinje.

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Unlike Šešelj, who on May 4, 1991, carried a hawthorn stake "to pierce the vampire and the greatest villain and criminal in the history of the Serbian people", Šapić says that the city of Belgrade, whose mayor he is, will personally help to carry out "quality exhumation". So, without a hawthorn stake, admittedly, he too, like Šešelj, called Broz a villain, accused him of shooting at Draža Mihailović during the First World War on Cer and Kolubara, and stated that the removal of the grave from the Museum of Yugoslavia, in which " The House of Flowers", important for the Serbian people and the state, "to cross once and for all with Bolshevism and Communism, which was fatal for the Serbian people in the last Yugoslavia".

With a hawthorn stake on the House of Flowers

And what happened on May 4, 1991? Seselj, taking advantage of the "national awakening" in Serbia instigated by Slobodan Milošević, and certainly not without the tacit permission of Freedom and Service, organized a rally in front of the "House of Flowers" that he had been announcing for days. His supporters, newly formed Chetniks moved by that national pathos, came there thinking that the "duke" would really lead them to do it. It was one of the first big deceptions of the Sarajevo Marxist, the others will follow, and they continue to this day, whether they are carried out by him or his best "apprentice" Aleksandar Vučić.

VOJISLAV SESELJ

"Chetniks" have gathered there, waving Serbian flags, hawthorn stakes, Seselj climbs up to give a speech. Behind him with a black hat and a cockade stands the "corn-picking duke" (that's how Šešelj later called him) Siniša Vučinić, a rightist or a leftist, according to the order of the Service (he is now a member of the SNS).

Two months ago, the Serbian Radical Party and its collective members, the Serbian Chetnik Movement and the Serbian Cultural Club, publicly requested the current Yugoslav communist regime to urgently move the grave of the greatest villain and criminal in the history of the Serbian nation, Josip Broz Tito, from Belgrade. An initiative was launched in the Croatian Parliament to move the remains of a villain and a criminal from Belgrade to Kumrovec... We will therefore show a little more patience. But we warn them that our patience is not endless. "We will not lead Serbian youths to attack the police and Serbian young men in military uniforms who surrounded the villain and criminal Josip Broz Tito," Seselj said then, followed by frenetic reactions. Exclamations of "that's right!" were heard from the crowd, the speech was followed by thunderous applause and waving of hawthorn stakes.

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Many years later, Šešelj explained the essence of his fraud: "When we then brought a hawthorn stake to Tito's grave, it was a demonstration that this evil must leave Serbia!" Of course I had courage, but you can't hack a granite grave with a hawthorn stake. It was symbolic and then we managed to destroy the cult of Tito".

In 1991 and later, as part of his appearances on the media, Seselj said that hundreds of military special forces and commandos came to prevent his attempt to exhume Tito, that machine guns were pointed at him, and armored vehicles were ready.

Seselj's joke

His deceptions were testified a year ago in an interview for "Vreme" by the then major and commander of the elite First Guards Battalion of the Military Police, Branislav Kavalić, whose unit, among other things, also secured the "House of Flowers" on that day.

"It was a joke and a prank, we knew that Sešelj was doing it just for the sake of the show, as he did all the time later. But we had to provide a guarded facility. I deploy a platoon of non-commissioned officers inside the 'House of Flowers', and then put a platoon of soldiers in a truck and drive around. He left the barracks through one entrance and returned through another. And so several times. Then I change the license plates, so that it is not seen that it is the same truck, and then again. And Seselj then tells how hundreds of military special forces and commandos came to prevent him from trying to dig up Tito."

Kavalić refuted Šešelj's platitude that "Serbian young men in military uniforms" should not be attacked, which served as a justification for abandoning an action he had not even planned, with numbers: in the combat part of the battalion he commanded, there were mostly Croats, slightly fewer Serbs, then there were Muslims, Macedonians and Yugoslavs. In the elite company for counter-terrorist operations, there were most Muslims, then Croats, and only then Serbs.

Misleading the public

Why is Šapić doing all this now, certainly not on his own, but in agreement with Aleksandar Vučić and his propaganda team?

On Tuesday, the front pages of the newspapers were full of Šapić's exhumation of Tito, the morning programs of the television revolved around the topic, guests were brought in to comment on the intentions of the mayor of Belgrade, and all this with one goal - to divert attention from important matters, such as the complete surrender of the north Kosovo in the hands of Pristina, strike of educators, protest against lithium mining...

ALEKSANDAR VUCIC, ALEKSANDAR SAPIC

For this purpose, the re-introduction of compulsory military service, which has been "spread out" for days, was first released to the public, followed by the "House of Flowers" and the monument to Draža Mihailović on Terazije, with all the "disagreement" of the socialists - an artificially feigned conflict in the ruling coalition in order to the opposition media were "harnessed". This will probably be followed by a "scrubbing" of the directors of health institutions due to the large waiting lists and the small number of operations performed, for which the Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar is supposedly responsible. Then on Friday there will be a "magnificent" display of the capabilities of the Serbian Armed Forces at the Batajnica airport. The analytical forces on duty are already ready for it, they are waiting like a loaded gun, they already had a "dress rehearsal" of their performance on television, but the bad weather prevented them, so the "military meeting" was moved from Sunday to Friday.