On his Instagram profile, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, tells you the story of a young rebel and a wise old man accompanied by appropriate illustrations and animation. He addressed the "blockaders-terrorists" as a child who broke a school window, so the good uncle put them on his knee to teach them a life lesson
On your Instagram profile the president of Serbia addressed the citizens "with a powerful video message, sending a strong political and social lesson", interprets "Novosti" as the latest marketing step Aleksandar Vučić. In the message, it is further explained, he told a "symbolic story that carries a clear message about the dangers of violence and the need for dialogue and responsibility."
"I'll tell you a story," Vučić began in a calm tone similar to the kind of stories told to children before bedtime. "The square in a city, the main one. On it, a passionate speaker who uses harsh words criticizes everything - society, the state, those who lead the country. People listen to him, demand action. And the speaker, spurred on by the attention of the masses, calls more and more strongly for change, calls for freedom more and more loudly. Soon he starts calling for violence as well, with the words: 'Just get rid of these, we will solve all the problems. That day will come, but we will have to use force!'"
The instructive sermon is accompanied by illustrations and animation. It becomes clear that Vučić acts like a good and wise king in whose hands the fate of his subjects is, conciliatory and full of understanding addresses the "terrorist blockaders", i.e. students, although none of them calls for violence.
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"At that moment," the president continued, "an older man stood out from the crowd and addressed him (that young leader who wanted to violently overthrow the government): 'When you are already taking on such responsibility for these people, and if you want to lead the country, you must do it with wisdom, patience and work. Show that you are capable.'
There, Vučić was certainly thinking of himself, a bewildered listener will easily recognize him in the meantime - wise, patient and hard-working, so that all those who want to rule should look up to him.
"To that the speaker replied," continued the President of the Republic of Serbia, "'No, no, old man! Your generation has destroyed us. We will do everything new, everything differently. Let's just get rid of this evil!'"
And the old man then told him the "key" sentence: "The only question is - who will free us from you afterwards?"
"The bottom line is that we have to hear each other, talk and at the same time show respect in every place," Vučić explained how listeners and viewers should understand this somewhat bizarre post.
The listener and viewer is even more shocked than before. It's as if he came across a teaser for a play for children at the "Odeon Theater" by Željko Mitrović. The camera captures Vučić, who is remarkably calm, from multiple angles, the same one who screams every day about "criminals", "traitors", "terrorists", "foreign mercenaries"...
More naturally learned
"Novosti" explains that the president highlighted an important lesson with his story: "It is very important for people to remember a lesson that I thought we had already learned: when we change things by force, when we use violence, we must know that it always comes back to us badly in the future."
The question is whether he was referring to us, the citizens of Serbia, or to those who rebel against his corrupt government, whom he threatens with retaliation, whom the police legitimize, arrest and beat here and there.
In this sense, Vučić underlined that Serbia must be an "orderly and serious country", in which the government changes in elections, not in the streets.
"You can get popular support only through work, diligence, dedication and commitment," he explained to the "armchair blockers". "It must be our pledge for the future of our beautiful country."
All in all, it is more natural in this story that change must not be sought through violence, but only in rigged elections, and that, on the other hand, the conclusion of the author of this text is that the government must be defended with violence.
With this post on Instagram, Vučić actually showed once again that he is unable to understand the students who rose up against his government, under which the institutions of this country collapsed, such as the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad.
It would be far more fitting and less bizarre for him to tell the story of the hoods next time, to whom the wise leader explains how they have to get their bats a little dirty if they want to get a reward, because if the renegade prosecutors stage a coup d'état, they too will end up in jail.
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