Veterans: The General Staff is another test

War and military veterans of Serbia they believe that it is the decision of the members of the Assembly to demolish Generalshab which is the place where the history of Serbia was created, is wrong and will try in its own way to prevent it from happening. Here is what they wanted to say about it:

"What is the General Staff?" - students ask these days.

What is the General Staff? - the citizens ask.

FON students explain that in a physical sense it is a building that was bombed, but which still survived; that in the historical sense it is the target of aggression, but also a permanent reminder of the victims.

Do the citizens of Belgrade care about the General Staff

Paid activists, propagandists of various services, parties and movements, as well as those who hate everything that does not correspond to their image of reality, say that the General Staff is a "symbol of war crimes", "a reminder of what happens when you are a hero and don't know how to fly", "a shame that we have not restored for 25 years" - and similar.

At the time of the NATO bombing, the two buildings of the General Staff were empty. Their attack had no military purpose, but was a pure show of force and brutality - demolishing the center of the city to tell the heroes to hide in mouse holes.

Next to the General Staff stands the Barracks of the 7th Regiment, which fought heroically on the battlefields of the 1912-1918 wars. year.

Does it mean anything to today's Belgraders?

Today, the General Staff, destroyed and abandoned, is a demonstration of the apathy of the people in power who show us that they can sell and tear down anything they want. These are the same people who are trying to destroy the Sava Embankment and thereby endanger New Belgrade, who are demolishing hotels and bridges, who care neither for human sacrifices, nor for the feelings of citizens, nor for history. They are tearing down our Belgrade and building their own private "Belgrade on the water", laundering dishonestly acquired money.

We, war and military veterans, informally gathered, to our own detriment and expense, and whom the same propagandists call criminals, Putinophiles, radicals, people who have never seen a gun and lost all battles - we have to say the following:

Veteran's message

The General Staff is another exam.

Exam on knowledge of organized civil society.

A test of resistance to the "profit is more important than human lives" ideology.

Examining the duty of citizens to fight for the return of society to a legal course regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia.

We have been taking these exams for a year now. Some we passed, some failed.

We, war and military veterans, entered these examination periods like all other citizens - because of the need to protect our children, students, to stand where it is dangerous, instead of them. At one point, we put on berets not to be heroic, spread Russian propaganda, take over a protest or seek something for ourselves as they accuse us, but to be clearly visible as a target for those who would use force on the weakest. We believe that it is better that all of us, veterans, die than one student. That's how we behave and that's how we will behave, despite the pursuit of those selfish, poisoned and evil people who point the finger at us.

We served our military service, we responded to our homeland, aware that we may not return, and if we do, that, in the spirit of Serbian tradition, we will be pushed to the margins of society. That's how we responded to every opportunity this year and a few days.

We will also take the exam question of the General Staff, when and as the students say.

Because, despite everything, we still hold honor and Serbia above all ideologies and selfish interests. We did not violate the oath taken when joining the armed forces.

And we say to all our citizens:

Look inside yourself. Discover what is important to you.”