The strained political relations in Serbia led to an intense propaganda war through the media. While RTS is desperately trying to reconcile the irreconcilable positions of the government and the opposition, commercial channels controlled by the government are conducting an intensive campaign primarily against students, educators, non-governmental organizations and NGO activists. To this list should be added influencers on social networks who are a specific thorn in the side of Vučić's and his activists' attempts to conquer virtual space in cyberspace.
That's how they were the first to be hit tweeters Vanja Bihalj, alias Koza na (in) heels, and Marko Marjanović better known as Crystal Matt Damon. They are examples of witty and sharp criticism of nebulous regime announcements. At one time, Tatjana Milekić led that reckoning by daily commenting on the bizarre, often half-literate propaganda posts of a certain SNS. boots, and today's Twitter users react to increasingly absurd announcements by the President and his associates in just a few minutes. Whether Vučić is blindly tasting carbonated drinks, stirring a shaker outside the stove, training juniors in Loznica or addressing us via Instagram with a zoom that distorts him into Shrek, the result is comical and blatant attempts to make the government cool or at least "in trend". Obviously, the comments are painful for the author, so Informer and Pink made promo films in which they reveal the "Ustasha heritage of Vanja Bihalj" or Čačany Ustasha Marko Marjanović. According to the tried-and-true recipe, the video is published by an obscure source on the Internet, and it is transmitted and amplified all day long by Informer, Pink and Happy. These amateur video-pamphlets have no basis in reality, they are completely fabricated, not only was Vanja's father not a member of the HVO in Mostar, but the name of her Twitter account was misspelled. She is not a "Goat in heels", which would mean that she is not only a goat, but also illiterate, she is a "Goat in heels" because, as she explained, the goat is an autochthonous animal species of her native Herzegovina. I wouldn't waste words on the "Ustasha from Čačany", the video in which he is the main character was edited from a video of the protest in front of the Nikola Tesla Museum (does it turn out that Tesla is also an Ustaša?), and the video continues with the statements of Srđo Popović??!! This papacy only speaks of the intention to pack half-information from the net in order to drag you through the mud of the tabloids and disturb the family.
Another example of this parody was created in Kragujevac, where a neighbor filmed students making a film from the window. For days, tabloid propaganda and Vučić played the footage from the set as key evidence that the attack on the students was being faked, and all as part of the "Colored Revolution" special action. Students allegedly record fictional attacks and trampling, and then release them on the Internet. This theory coincides with multi-hour and multi-day analyzes dealing with the origin of the food that students get while walking to Novi Sad or Kragujevac. It is inconceivable to the said team that someone brings everything they have to the students, and they showed a special interest in roasted pigs, namely, where they come from, because, as is generally known, the team distributes sandwiches to its supporters. The students, of course, offered not only an explanation for the filming in Kragujevac, but also free acting lessons to the bad actors of the tabloid media. This could all boil down to a failed subterfuge and remake Balkan spy, where special warfare and the enemy appear everywhere you look. You remember, the walk in Adam is a secret meeting, and the result is the blowing up of Vinci. Unfortunately, this media manipulation has a much more serious intention and consequence. It relativizes the regime's most terrible repression against young people, attacks by thugs, trampling of demonstration participants, daily insults on television (in which even RTS participates), ignoring clearly defined demands. This seemingly stupid attempt at subterfuge actually pre-empts the regime in the event of an even harsher crackdown on those who criticize it. Entering this mode of thinking, Vučić portrays himself as the only savior of Serbia from the "color revolution", when in fact he is in the modality of political self-preservation. For this purpose, he will be ready to deal not only with the most educated part of our society, but, indulging in political cannibalism, he will sacrifice the future of Serbia. It is necessary to convince the electorate that Serbia is in danger from its children. If you believe that, the regime is turning you against your own children or your grandchildren. I wonder if this kind of manipulation will pay off…
In the end, in the absence of wit and creativity, the regime produced TV shows whose name begins with "The Dossier on...". This BIA genre started with the episode "Vojvodina Files", and the subcontractor of the propaganda works is the Center for Social Stability. The "NGO File" has already been announced, which is completely logical, because the President has already targeted the wreckers of Serbia. Currently, Vučić is scaring the citizens with the autonomists and the secession of Vojvodina, so in their work they deal extensively with the history of the SFRY, the autonomy of the provinces, while the gatherings throughout Serbia actually represent a continuous populist and demagogic confrontation with dissenters, which began during the "yogurt revolution".
We now have a "sandwich revolution" in which Vučić, through a sandwich, just like Sloba with yogurt, wants to portray himself as the only defender of Serbia and the protector of the "little man". In fact, with more and more reckless lies, the government draws targets on the foreheads or backs of all those who dare to criticize or oppose it.
The most tragic fact is that today Vučić can experience absolute power only in his TV monologues, and the problem arises in reality, even when surrounded by his entourage he travels to rallies organized by Informer tours. At the end of this sad story, he remains alone like a cartoon character The line, in his two-dimensional world.
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