Rimtutituki Antiwar Action
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 fly
I don’t wanna crawl
Cause when I crawl
I can’t screw
PEACE BROTHER PEACE!
We don’t want
for folk music to win
I prefer you, girl
to a rifle
Dirty battles
put them in love bags
Less shooting
More screwing.
You are too young
to be pushing up daises
Under the helmet
there is no brain.
Where everyone is heading
don’t follow after
Cause one who betrays
Will be a goddamn twat
You can’t runaway
From something that is already there,
Omnipresent.
Rimtutituki…
Rimtutituki…
How many more of you are there?
How many more of you are there?
Count off!
One! Two! One! Two!
...
The band name Rimtutituki itself is an untranslatable word game in satrovacki slang meaning something like “I put a spell on you” (only instead of “a spell” it’s “my dick” and instead of “on” it’s “in”). The band was formed in early 1992 to try and start an antiwar campaign. It consisted of three biggest Belgrade r’n’r bands’ members – EKV (Milan Mladenovic, mentioned recently here, wiki article here), Partibrejkers (Cane, Anton and Borko, mentioned earlier here, official site here) and Elektricni Orgazam (Gile, Svaba, Cavke, Jovec, official site here). In the spirit of true underdog gerilla action they rented a truck with an open trailor and played the song over and over while driving through Belgrade city center, giving antiwar badges, t-shirts and CDs to the crowd that followed.
But the whole thing stopped pretty much before it even started. Nation was already half-hypnotized and half-tired of Milosevic rule – years 1992 and 1993 were, economically speaking, the worst years Serbia has encountered in it’s modern history and the need to survive was stronger than the need to think about “some god forsaken war” that actually raged just a couple hundred kilometers away.
I hope we will not need another Rimtutituki-like action ever again. But if we do, I hope it will work.
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Wow it brings memories back. I remember this song but never saw the vid. There was such a desperate feeling in that period that affected every part of society and the behaviour of people.
On a more serious note – I can always hear the voices (in my head) of establishment rightist types who think this is too hippy-like, you know that these lazy, cowardly good for nothings should be fighting the Serb cause on the battlefield etc.
Well today Serbia has a shrinking and elderly population, surely the sensible way to reverse that was to not reduce the population with fighting but to increase it with, yep you gueesed it, love…
Yup, “Spasi Srbiju i LJUBI se, Koštuniceee…”, that’s what I shouted in front of the Government the other day…
This leaves out the unemployment and economic reasons while young people are leaving and aren’t raising families in Serbia. More left due to the economic situation than were killed in the wars.
The unemployment levels kept increasing the 7 years after Milosevic’s ouster, and the current crop in government government isn’t doing anything effective in helping the overall situation, so people have continued to leave or want to leave for abroad despite going on 9 years (as of mid-June) even without war.
“Rimtutituki itself is an untranslatable word game in satrovacki slang meaning something like “I put a spell on you” (only instead of “a spell” it’s “my dick” and instead of “on” it’s “in”). “
lol !!!! you should be awarded some sort of a prize for the most f’ed up explanation of matter lost in translation, ever:)))
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Ida,
You don’t think that maybe these “unemployment and economic” reasons have something to do with the legacy of war?
crazy