Lucifer's envoy to Serbia

Since Lucifer appointed an envoy for Serbia a decade ago, this country has been exposed to systematic corrosion freedom and democracy. We were threatened with losing control over our own destiny. Unfortunately, on November 1, 2024, at 11:52 a.m., a terrible thing happened tragedy in Novi Sad.

While the sullen dissatisfaction weakly broke through the collective apathy, throughout 2024, Serbia tried to recover from the trauma of the murders in the "Vladislav Ribnikar" school, Dubona and Mali Orašje, from the proven but unpunished election theft, from the All-Serbian Easter Assembly... It seemed that the energy of resistance waned after a series of protests against lithium mining in the Jadra valley.

No one expected a social explosion after the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad, when 14 people died under 300 tons of concrete, and eventually the number of victims reached 16. Even less expected that the rebellion would be led by generation Z, young people whom we thought were apolitical, uninterested, spoiled, overwhelmed by the madness of social networks, virtual life or easy money.

photo: marija janković

"YOUR HANDS ARE BLOODY."

It turns out you can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep, says a Navajo proverb. Youth did not sleep. They were awake. They followed everything. They were silent as long as they wanted to be silent, and then they got sick of it.

Pessimism is most often inaction. Optimism is an action. Students organized commemorative manifestations of "14 minutes of silence" and said NO. When they were brutally attacked in front of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade at the end of November, they blocked the faculty. They were soon joined by five universities and more than 60 faculties across Serbia.

In a democratic discussion, the student plenums formulated demands for truth, justice and punishment of those responsible for the tragedy in Novi Sad, for the corruption embedded in the foundations of the canopy, and demanded the responsibility of the attackers of the FDU. They became the conscience of society. They decided to stop the wheel of evil. All over the country they carried a red palm print with the message "Your hands are bloody". The authorities lied, but months later, the independent Commission of Inquiry for investigating responsibility for the fall of the canopy established that there are grounds for suspicion that the President of the Republic is at the head of the criminal group responsible for corruption.

It was confirmed why there is a huge mistrust in the Serbian version of representative democracy. In February, the students told the president, who during the decade of absolutist rule wished to be Supreme, that as an "incompetent subject institution" he could not resolve their demands because they were beyond his constitutional authority.

The students are not interested in the fact that many people think that in this country the president, the Parliament, the Government, the opposition, the state prosecutor, the patriarch, the directors of public companies, the editors of national television, and the selectors should be changed. Young people are not attacking Serbia. On the contrary, they are trying to defend it - and fix it.

Students do not destroy, but they want a state that this government does not want. They say that they don't want to build other people's countries, they want to stay, but in freedom, democracy, a normal society. Inequality will not be sold under the cloak of fairness. People will not be divided into good and bad by the party booklet. They will not grow as obedient. Complexes will not be cured by politics and in politics.

They addressed the institutions, asking that the ministries, prosecutors and courts just do their job. This is the essence of the conflict that qualitatively distinguishes these protests from those of October 5, 2000. Then the government was overthrown, and now young people, with a touch of patriotism, are trying to build a new system of values. They knew that the captured institutions would remain silent, but they wanted all citizens to see it.

They wisely avoided the pitfalls. They have no leaders, aware that the government would discredit them and pass them through the "hot rabbit". They did not allow the opposition to interfere. They perform neither left nor right, only forward. They loudly said "Enough!" They stepped into the world of adults and offered to solve what we couldn't. With the impressive organization of the protests and their disarming inventiveness and wit, they say that they are determined not to wait for change. They bring them.

photo: marija janković

"PUMP"

The shrill sound of the whistle, the energy of the blockades and their cry "Pump" like a mega-alarm clock woke up a sleeping Serbia and like a magnet attracted hundreds of thousands of citizens who broke down the barriers of fear. "Enough silence" is a message to the authorities that she does not want to hear, but it has reached the hearts of people who recognize that there is a joint struggle for justice and law, for morality and responsibility. As they expose the ossified system, they are freed from authority. What was our fear is their strength.

From the start, the regime did not know how to fight against the transparency of demands that mobilized enormous energy at whirlwind speed. The rebellion received the support of high school students, teachers and professors, parents, actors, lawyers, some judges and prosecutors, bikers and veterans.

They didn't stop any longer: they occupied the squares, streets, started on foot along the roads, streets and alleys, showing that Serbia belongs to those who walk on them. They were welcomed as liberators in places that were known as strongholds of progressives.

Politicians have been extracting evil from people for years. Students brought youthful purity, kindness, and sometimes naivety. That's how they earned the general appreciation and respect that no one here has had since the time of high school students at the beginning of the 20th century.

The unstoppable energy spread like lightning. Students emotionally blew up Serbia. I used to see mostly frowning faces. Then the same faces shed tears of joy and smiles. The great January march of students from Belgrade to Novi Sad was an epic event of collective catharsis. While I was watching the long column winding like a snake through Šumadija towards Kragujevac on Sretenje, my throat tightened, and tears welled up in my eyes.

The president retaliated with cannonades of uncontrollable rage. How much Jesuit cynicism was necessary to compare the Shumadian Column to Mussolini's March on Rome? How much toxicity does it take to equate students with fascists?

The students charged the people's batteries without digging up a single gram of lithium. Blockades, protest marches, a magnificent rally at Belgrade's Slavia on March 15 are manifestations of solidarity and togetherness that have not been seen for a long time. In the columns there are long-haired leftists, young men in turbans and girls in hijabs. The majority are believers, but not subjects of the Church. They sing the national anthem and carry the flag of Serbia. They silenced those who would prefer to declare them traitors. They are very nationally aware, but there is no chauvinism of previous generations.

photo: marija janković

"ONE WORLD, ONE FIGHT"

The phenomenon of students spread contagiously, to our pride. Student messages reached all continents. They were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize - but unfortunately they did not receive the award. The noble energy did not only shake Serbia, but its echo crossed the borders of the region and probably for the first time since the wars showed how much solidarity but also discontent exists in the generation that received the divided Western Balkans from its parents.

The students did not allow themselves to be stunned by the traumas of previous generations. They were born free from conflicts and wars, sanctions, bombings, hatred towards neighbors. They embraced political and social missionary work and inspired the region. With love and humanity, young people are trying to clean up the world that we have polluted. They replace hatred towards others with solidarity with others. They don't want to feel alone and disconnected. They cross the borders of ethnic, religious or political affiliation.

These young men and women grew up in the times after the wars they heard about, but do not want to live in. They refuse to prop up the walls of division. They do not divide but add. They immediately received the support of the entire region: Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Podgorica, Skopje... "One world, one fight."

The government immediately declared such gatherings of support as conspiratorial manifestations whose goal is to weaken and destroy prosperous Serbia. The students were declared "mannequins of the Croatian services" and "ustashas". Over time, he will go through an entire evolution of insulting epithets: foreign mercenaries, losers, scum, human dregs, blockaders, plenums, anarchists, Bolsheviks, thugs, terrorists.

The president continued to spin the mantra that someone wants to destroy Serbia. "Obviously I don't understand the new age and new times", he admitted at the time when students from Zagreb came to Belgrade to show solidarity with their colleagues from electrical engineering. "When I was a student, if someone from Zagreb came to us, we would rush them."

I understand that the president does not understand his young generation. If he wanted to, instead of a society with all the insignia of a cult of personality, he would create a society that is not only sought by young people. If he wanted to, he would have brought Serbia closer to the democratic values ​​of Europe. He didn't want to. He doesn't understand. Demands for freedom, justice, truth, equality or responsibility are outside his political field of vision. It rejects EU democracy, and Serbia does not have its own.

A series of failures followed, which are a confirmation of how far the president, despite his cheap national-populism, has alienated himself from the people. He tried, like a medieval pope with indulgences, to bribe students with cheap apartments. They told him that they are not for sale. He offered some kind of "healing and benevolent" dialog. People don't believe him. They rejected him.

He somehow wanted to appease the students by saying that many of them are good, but they are "seduced", since the external enemy is working and preparing a colored revolution, whose insidious goal is the overthrow of the president - and that means Serbia, its reputation in the world, the prosperous economy, even the history, tradition, culture or the Republika Srpska. Sebi raised the price by claiming that four billion dollars had been invested in the project and promised a textbook on how he defeated the color revolution, which would have millions of copies and become a world bestseller. While he and the patriarch thanked Vladimir Putin for warning them about the unproven danger from the West, the young people ignored that insulting attitude, aware that their movement is authentic, Made in Serbia.

"FROM MY VILLAGE TO BRUSSELS"

That Serbia began to show the world a different face. At the beginning of April, 80 students cycled more than 1300 kilometers to Strasbourg. Then at the end of the same month, twenty students from all universities prepared a new feat: the relay marathon "From my village to Brussels". They delivered their messages, which the Europeans took into consideration. Results will come later. The European Parliament and the Commission passed harsh resolutions on Serbia, warning of growing repression.

Furious that he was not accepted and loved by everyone, the president began to build his own world. Especially since in May the students expanded their list with a request to call for extraordinary parliamentary elections. First, imprisoned in a progressive incubator, he rejected the idea of ​​a transitional government: "As long as I live, I will not accept any transitional government. They will have to kill me." A pure replica of Slobodan Milošević's "malo morgen" policy.

Then, unwilling to seriously consider how and with what the government contributed to the mass dissatisfaction, he announced in Niš that "as of tonight, he is no longer involved in fulfilling student demands" and that for him "those demands do not exist". Then it became clear that the one to whom they dedicated the song "Coward" was afraid of his own people.

Having used all the rusty tools from the magazine belonging to the radical era, the president and his advisers have shown an astonishing degree of ingenuity. All moves, even statements, turned into copy-paste variants of what students and choirs came up with.

He responded to the student gathering by forming the Movement for the People and the State, which gathers all "honorable" citizens. On the other side, only the "dishonorable" remain. Out of all of them, he only got Prime Minister Dr. Đura Matsuta, if that's a win. The mayor of Kraljevo returned the bloody fist with a red middle finger. They rally, he rally. Those for Sretenje in Kragujevac, he in Sremska Mitrovica, where he announced the victory over the colored revolution for the first time. They march, he makes them march - with or without buses. Students List for elections, the president says that he will make sure to find a presidential candidate among his loyal students.

Those for the anniversary from Novi Pazar and other cities to Novi Sad, he organizes Serbs from KiM to also go to Novi Sad, where he plans an even bigger gathering in vain. They disobey him, and money is running out. The students say it will be over when we say it is over, he - accustomed to his being the last - claims it will be over when I say it is over.

CHACILLAND

In March, before the announcement of a large protest, the government erected a tent settlement overnight in the middle of Pionir Park in Belgrade, close to the House of the National Assembly and the Presidency building, and allocated it - as if the park were its grandfather - to "students who want to study" and demand the reopening of the faculty.

I wondered why they didn't stay at home and study, but the president needed "guardians of the fire", defiant antipodes of the blockaders. The inhabitants of the camp were soon humorously called "čaci", after the graffiti that appeared at the beginning of the year at the entrance of Novi Sad's Jovina Gymnasium, in which the illiterate author wrote "čaci" instead of "đaci" in Cyrillic. The graffiti that defeated the Serbian spelling became synonymous with the president's young men and their fenced headquarters.

The structure of the settlers of this grotesque combination of queues and toilets called "Ćaciland" was changing rapidly. Some of the 17.000 loyalists who swore loyalty to the president in the monastery began to arrive. Serbia as the Cosa Nostra was confirmed by the purposefully released tattooed criminals and hooded hooded men with sticks, who charge for their services when the government sends them to beat commemorative gatherings with silence.

There are also demobilized members of the Special Operations Unit that killed Zoran Đinđić, persons suspected of the attack in Banjska, middle-aged local SNS officials brought in shifts from various parts of Serbia, participants of reality shows, a few paors and less and less "ćacija". Some have received a residence permit to live in the park! They developed the banner "Bolje čaci than naci", with a swastika.

The president is like the Black God from Slavic mythology. God of darkness and night. Charmed by his own sign, he enthusiastically stopped by "Ćaciland" to play a game of chess with the settlers, treat them with kettlebells or paint Easter eggs. Because of them, the army shamefully backed down and after nearly two decades gave up the promotion of the youngest officers in front of the House of the National Assembly - so that the president's wards could study in peace. The police protect his "heroes" from "student thugs" all the time.

Another Mazino line created on deception, a sanitary cordon towards the student "pack" that is "only interested in the overthrow of the state" and that is constantly "honking something". A new thickening of the lines between students and citizens on the one hand and those who imagine that they can act unhindered as occupiers in power on the other. This is how the unicellular division of the people continued, which has been systematically lasting for more than a decade. His bar association, his judges and prosecutors, who act not by law but by order. His association of journalists. Organized fission of society.

"RISE OF SERBIA! "

When you realize that your country is denying you rights and protection, then you stop accepting the government as your own. People leave, families and friendships fall apart because of politics. Unprepared for dialogue, as he has always been, the president is doing everything to divide citizens. His children danced to the songs of Baja Mali Knindža, others sang with dignity the words written by Dositej Obradović in 1804:

Stand up Serbia!
You fell asleep a long time ago,
She lay in the dark.
Wake up now.
And excite Serbia!

I have long had a well-founded suspicion that the president deeply believes that the time of chaos, confusion and antagonism is his ally and that is why he is systematically working to cause divisions, not only political but also ethnic and religious.

"Very disappointed" because of the "passive role" of Bosniak political representatives, he lashed out at the students of the State University in Novi Pazar, the same ones to whom colleagues from other parts of Serbia showed respect during the Ramadan fast, and who later reciprocated by coming to Belgrade to greet them in front of the RTS building during the Easter holidays and bring them offers in the form of fasting food.

In Belgrade and Novi Pazar, they showed the kind of Serbia they want. "God help you, brothers and sisters" and "Salam aleikum", they exchanged greetings. Can the commonality of šajkača and hijab be understood by the man who thundered from the parliamentary platform that one Serbian head will be charged with a hundred Bosniaks? Of course not.

This president's undermining of unity was repeated with the Slovaks in Bačka Palanka! He claimed that there is a "strong ideological movement against Serbia" in the north. A leader who chants about unity is a destroyer - all for the sake of remaining in power. The Serbian Orthodox Church has other calculations, mostly of a lucrative nature.

High dignitaries of the Serbian Orthodox Church avoided making a statement about the protest. As the crisis worsened and the government began to lose its foothold among the people, it was clear that the regime would ask the church to help it. Already at the end of February, Metropolitan David of Kruševac publishes the text "Zduhači, Manitoši i ljudi od veresija", transmitted on the official website of the SPC, in which the students are placed in the context of the color revolution and marked in such a way that they are perceived as "Serbian Ustasha".

The patriarch is silent, but the six bishops send an open letter to the public, in which they call for students' respect. "Defining our youth with these words is more than a joke - it is a shameful stamp on the Body of the Church", they announced and preserved the image of the Church, as well as those priests who opened hostels to the students in the march.

One of them, Archbishop Grigorije of Düsseldorf and Germany, later welcomed a group of cyclists in Munich. "You are modern knights and heroes of our age... Whoever strikes you, strikes not only the best of our people, but strikes Christ himself."

Victor Hugo recommended that the fight against crime and corruption should not be used in prisons, but in schools. In the fraudulent concept of progressive politics, it is the other way around: schools, faculties, rectors, deans and professors have become targets. An unprecedented manhunt was launched against 5000 university professors who had supported the students from the very beginning. They are accused of violating the Constitution, of discriminating against the majority of students, especially those who want to study.

The president got the opportunity to take revenge on the university public because it was never accepted by the majority. Satanization of the academic community has begun. Take the professors' salaries to subdue them. Leave their families without bread to leave the students. Make them give up, humble themselves, make them choose between principles, beliefs and existence. Ever since he agreed to be on the Student List, Belgrade University Rector Vladan Đokić has become State Enemy No. 1.

Enemies on all sides. At universities, in the judiciary. How can they not be in the media? In April, he stated that all journalist associations and a good part of the non-governmental sector in Serbia are direct participants in the color revolution. He allowed the "Informer" to turn into an assault SA squad of the SNS, and its editor-in-chief into an intimate Sturmbannführer.

"A POLITICAL WORM AT THE HEAD OF SERBIA"

The end is approaching from within, it will be the same with the world, which is fed up with the policy of vacillating, which has not created a sincere ally for Serbia anywhere. Neither in the East nor in the West. Aleksandar Dugin, Putin's favorite ultra-conservative philosopher and ideologue, tells the Serbian president from Moscow that he has lost all legitimacy and has zero support among the people. "I think the goal of these protests is for him to simply disappear. Since he is both fierce and weak, cowardly and aggressive at the same time, it also creates an additional aesthetic problem - he is simply disgusting... A political worm at the head of Serbia."

Since it is shown that he is not up to his ambitions both internally and externally, the president brings polarization to its peak. He betrayed and abandoned a good half of the citizens and as the chief of his progressive tribe he raises the totems of his vitriolic government. Someone who talks about unity has created two Serbias that are increasingly difficult to reconcile.

He then followed the scripts of all the autocrats and began to rely on the only thing left to him: force. He hinted at it when a piece of history was written in Belgrade on March 15. The protest at Slavia "15 for 15" gathered 300.000 people and was the largest public gathering in Serbia ever. He retaliated with a weapon that was remembered as the "sound cannon". His people in the TV studio celebrated: "Hit the president! That's right! Hit, smash them!"

The one who decided to use an unidentified weapon "against the evil that has befallen us" had to count on the fact that his inflamed anger would return it somewhere. When torch-throwers with easily inflammable political charge are engaged, when arrogant people who trampled on students justify themselves by denying them "freedom of movement", then it is dangerous playing with fire. Violence begets violence. The law of action and reaction. Who hides from his mother, what would the President of the Assembly say.

He kept the top of the army, police and services in vassal obedience, but he is not sure about the lower echelons, so he organized his parasanges: paid thugs and criminals who worked their way out of prison by beating pupils and students or instilling fear in local elections. The connection between the authorities and the criminal world has become transparent, but the president is proud of his "heroes".

At least 900 people were detained or arrested this year, and the president pardoned the four who broke the jaw of a female student in Novi Sad. He praised the special officer who threatened to rape another student. He must have enjoyed it sadistically while a student injured during a peaceful protest was handcuffed to a hospital bed, and another was taken out of prison in baggies to attend his father's funeral. They will praise the progressives from Inđija who have now denied accommodation to the unruly students of the State University from Novi Pazar after more than 300 kilometers of walking towards Novi Sad and forced them to sleep on the streets on a cold night.

They were previously declared "jihadists, extremists and Hamas".

In the meantime, choirs have networked Serbia.

In today's rapidly changing sociopolitical world, in which democratic norms are systematically suppressed and misinformation and social fragmentation increase, social movements are more than necessary. Plenums for students, choirs for the people. Direct and immediate democracy in action.

photo: darko vojnović / fonet / ap

"TENT OF SACRIFICE"

The increasingly nervous president accused the blockaders of destroying Serbia and the Golden Age that he had built with his own hands. He complained about the drop in investments, but he frantically guarded EXPO27, the exhibition that should be a testimony of his megalomaniacal ambitions and the richest vault for corruption looting that is measured in billions of euros.

He reveals more and more openly that he has not moved away from his radical past. Clean socks don't fit on dirty feet. He's made more mistakes in recent months than in all the years he's been building his cult. He allowed himself to appear drunk on television. It repeats the same transparent tricks of preventing people from expressing their free will, including solidarity with the victims. He stopped trains three times due to "bomb reports", called bus operators for an emergency technical inspection and blocked the roads leading to Novi Sad. Poor.

While the students irresistibly won the sympathy of the citizens, he claimed that the people were "fed up with blockades and harassment". On the eve of the great commemoration in Novi Sad, the regime media repeated the lessons they were given to read a long time ago: the blockaders are preparing chaos and violence. There will be blood in Serbia.

Practicing cynicism, when asked what he expects from November 1, he answered with a counter question: "What then? Some football game?"

Only distilled evil can so offend the victims of Novi Sad and the thousands of young people who traveled through Serbia to attend the magnificent commemoration. It's not surprising. Before that, he said that there would be "pagan, some satanic customs" in Novi Sad. His favorite "decent journalist" is the one who talked about "tent victims" on "Informer" television the day before. With the finger-in-the-eye policy, he recruited more opponents than the entire opposition managed for more than a decade.

The government would like to preserve the framework in which it can go to the next elections and, like last time, go unpunished because of all the machinations. He would not change the election conditions. Aware that she has lost a significant part of her voters, she will do everything to try to control the country and preserve the status quo with which she would go to the vote.

BON VOYAGE, SERBIA

The government is the same, but Serbia is not. Since the collapse of the canopy, over 23.000 peaceful meetings have been held in Serbia. The earth woke up and spoke without fear. Optimism and human solidarity have returned. It turns out that you can fool some people some of the time, but never all the people all the time, as the Americans say.

We are not completely numb in the society we are ashamed of. Today we are proud of Serbia. We are flooded with feelings that we thought were gone. We are better people. We exchange words of mutual support. We see others, we address them. We ask if you need help. We are learning values ​​that have been destroyed for years. We believe and hope for the best. Serbia according to the citizens of Serbia.

The fire becomes an eternal flame. The student rebellion made an incredible, until a short time ago, unimaginable contribution to the development of the democratic consciousness of this nation. Stop talking about them as the future. They are the present. We have been waiting for them for decades, let's not let them disperse. The reliance on violence is a reliable indicator that the regime is entering a terminal phase, but no one can say with certainty how long it will last. Certainly not for too long. The government is not up to the times and the challenges it faces. Just force. Congratulations, President! Just keep it up. It will take less time.

I don't want to feel like I'm losing ground and living on borrowed time. Why we agreed to be hostages for so long and now the students are welcomed as liberators is another question. The competent institution would have to break down and decide to call elections in order to quell the dangerously growing feelings of anger. As soon as possible, because otherwise they will run out into the street. Hate in its most destructive form grows on both sides.

All accusations about the "Bolshevik" and "Stalinist" plenums or the "fascist" nature of the assemblies are in vain. Young people set out to create a different, normal Serbia. The change is qualitative. The first step on the journey of a thousand miles has been taken. There is no going back to the old ways. The status quo is also unsustainable because it would mean revenge on the regime and lead to a harsh dictatorship.

Ahead of the magnificent commemoration in Novi Sad, the president offered a "conciliatory tone". Only the gullible could be deceived by the notorious manipulator. How many two days later, he called those who stood in solidarity with Dijana Hrk, the heroine of Serbia who started a hunger strike, "cowards". He glorified the images from Ćaciland, "the symbol of the existence of Serbia", who addressed the mother of the martyred Stefan with the song: "The mother of her son went to look for him".

The president agreed to become a symbol of evil and inhumanity. If Ćaciland is a symbol of "existence", then such a Serbia should disappear. We won't let him do that. Bon Voyage Serbia! Good luck Serbia! Pump it!