In Serbia, the children of those who overthrew the Milosevic regime have been raised

2025-01-31 18:39:52Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA SNEZANA CONGRADIN
Protests in Serbia

By Snezana Congradin-Danas*

Children born before and after October 5, 2000, the brightest peak in the new Serbian history, when their parents finally managed to overthrow the criminal-war regime of Slobodan Milosevic and Vojislav Seselj – of which Aleksandar Vu?i?, Ivica Da?i? and Aleksandar Vulin were part – today find themselves in an incredible and completely unexpected situation.

They are overthrowing the same regime.

This regime based on hatred raised on religious, national, or any other form of diversity depending on the prevailing definitions here.

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In Serbia, the children of those who overthrew the Milosevic regime have been
Snezana Congradin

Today's Serbian leadership, accustomed to the same scheme borrowed from the 1990s, when it sent its citizens to the front to die or to participate in war crimes, for the sake of survival and enrichment of a handful of criminals in power, has made a simple "copy-paste" even 30 years later, idiotically and insanely believing that the same formula would work for new citizens in Serbia.

But while Aleksandar Vu?i? himself continued to steal without stopping, singing the same refrain to the people that the Croatian "Ustaše", the "Albanians" and the Bosnian "Bali" are trying to destroy Serbia, the entire nation took to the streets, led by the youth - those born somewhere around before and after October 5. Neither force, nor arrogance, nor intimidation was working for him anymore.

This historical moment has its own symbolism that makes you admire those young people who are today making the revolution in our name.

In the same way, our generation wasted entire months in colleges, at work, in everyday life, risking even their existence to take to the streets and fight against the criminal regime of Slobodan Milosevic and Vojislav Seselj in the 1990s.

But despite this, we were unable to leave our children anything better as a legacy than Aleksandar Vu?i? and Ivica Da?i? – the descendants of our two criminals – whom they now need to overthrow in order to secure the future of this country. To stay here, not to run away from us.

They should do this to travel for pleasure and to learn, not to survive or with the anxiety that they may never return.

Is there anything more beautiful than living in your own country? Traveling because you want to and enjoy it, not because you have nothing to eat and how to survive? What could be more reassuring than knowing that your family is well – mother, father, grandparents, friends – and not feeling guilty that you managed to escape a life doomed to failure, just because you were born in Serbia?

In the last three months, it has become more than clear how stupid, incompetent, corrupt and insensitive this regime is. But wasn't this expected from the descendants and inspirers of war crimes and ruthless thieves of their own people who rose above poverty and death during wars?

The unexpected thing was that, despite everything, we as citizens of this country managed to open up space for our children to no longer accept such a fate.

Does Vu?i? wonder why the anger of young people erupted as they listened to the propaganda that Serbia is the greatest military power in the region and that it can once again, like in the 90s, wipe out everything that is not "Serbian"?

These young people are not afraid of Croats, Albanians or Bosniaks. They see them simply as members of other nations, living in other countries, and feel no superiority over them, unlike the majority of Serbian citizens during the 1990s, when they were brainwashed by brutal media propaganda to do anything in the service of a criminal regime.

Vu?i? is behind the times.

Considering that his "time" began when he became a tool of war criminal Vojislav Seselj, it is understandable why the students, who today challenge him to oust him from power, see him as a fossil of the past.

Ultimately, any nationalist who thinks, or has as a political agenda, the superiority of his nation over others, is a complete idiot. And as such, he will be overthrown.

*Aurorja is an editorialist for the Serbian opposition newspaper Danas


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