They are tough but fair and their leadership has heart after all – the Socialist Party of Serbia, formerly led by Slobodan Milosevic, decided to forgive citizens of Serbia for letting them stay on power throughout the nineties. All those complaints, suffering, beatings by Milosevic’s police, and even numerous political and criminal executions are forgiven by the SPS. Clearly it was the fault of the voters for bringing them to power in the first place, and for not being able to overthrow the dictator all those years, but Ivica Dacic, the current socialists’ leader, said it’s ok and that the socialists understand now, so they are able to forgive us.

The oppressed people of Serbia, represented by the Democratic Party, (whose former leader Zoran Djindjic was killed thanks to the Socialist Party) stated that they are very sorry for not letting the socialist rule like they really wanted in the nineties, for complaining about the economical situation so much, for dying in the wars fought by the Socialist Party, and that they are glad the Socialists found the strength in their national-socialistic hearts to forgive them.

There are clearly some conditions under which the SPS would accept to forgive us completely and we are, of course, willing to comply – we are not to mention Milosevic in negative light ever again and we mustn’t criticize the current government while the SPS is in power – surely that this is a small price to pay to have the socialists’ trust in us back and their wisdom to guide us again into the bright future, right?

Right?

LaLara found this video on youtube recently, and I thought it would be cool to bring the story of Rimtutituki antiwar action that happened in the early nineties in Belgrade to the audience of our blog.

But, first, the (approximate) translation of the song:
“Now Listen Here”
Peace is the most beautifull girl
Not everybody can have
If I can’t [...]

Dear readers, today has been the 7th anniversary of the democratic changes, or maybe revolution, that have changed the political leadership of Serbia and at that time “Milosevic Yugoslavia”. It was a unique event in Serbian history when an entire nation deprived of freedoms and welfare have revolted and most importantly, more or less non-violently, [...]

The Austrian author Peter Handke a highly contraversial personality in the european cultural scene, but mostly criticized for his appearance on the funeral of the former yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is also known for his positive attitude for the Serbs.
Nowadays, it mostly very “modern” and “rational” to condemn Serbia and the Serbs for the infamous [...]

Now as 2006 is nearing to an end, the political life of Serbia was turbulent, thus it earns to take a look back on what marked our political life thoughts throughout the last year:
Many things happened, many interesting, exciting and depressing, optimist, unusual, nostalgic and confusing.
One of the most significant things that marked the last [...]

“Pescanik” means hourglass in Serbian. It’s a weekly radio show on B92, one of the few, if not the only radio show truly critical to the current (and all the previous ones) goverment.

This is a movie shown on the Pescanik DVD promotion recently in Dom Omladine.
Author is Nadezda Milenkovic, journalist, one of the frequent guests [...]

Here is a brief retrospective of things that took place last couple of days.
1. Slobodan Milosevic dies in Hague alone in his cell due to cardiac arrest. He is found dead several hours later.
2. His party anounces that he will be buried in Belgrade, in a graveyard reserved for prominent Serbs. They soon give up [...]

Since foreign media houses still report that “huge numbers of people” gather to honour Milosevic, i had to go and see this with my own eyes. Once i got there, it wass all pretty clear to me. Number of something over 1000 people doesnt seem so large, but when they all line up, they make [...]