After the attack on Miloš Pavlović, regime student, a new directive arrived from the progressive center of power: to equate the students in the blockade with to the Nazis. According to the command, the column moves - led by the president of all citizens, Vučić, then Brnabić, Vučević, Krstić, M. Popović...
Brnabić claims that "the worst Nazis" are behind the attack on Pavlović. On social networks, Vučić says: "Better children than Nazis", comparing the pouring of water and throwing bones to the events in Vienna and Munich in the late 1930s. Vucevic calls on citizens to "raise their voices against the Nazi phalanxes", and Lončar assesses that "last night in the capital, the greatest possible fascism took place".
Dehumanization of students in the blockade
What, actually, does the government do?
First - it dehumanizes the opponent. This is a lesson that the radicals, disguised today as progressives, have learned a long time ago. They did it in the nineties, when Vučić shouted: "One hundred Muslims for one Serb." He was sitting in Belgrade at the time, while others were dying. Today they do the same, with the fact that their enemy is their own people. The regime is deliberately dehumanizing the youth of this country and there is hardly a more terrible crime against the future of Serbia.
Second, they draw attention. In the night between Monday and Tuesday, five thugs beat Petar Živković, a student at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. But don't lie down: on Tuesday evening, Miloš Pavlović walks through Studenjak, driven by the desire to visit friends whom he says he hasn't seen in five months. By the way, what five months are you talking about? Namely, he started camping in front of the Assembly from the beginning of March.
Double yards and media circus
When it comes to the attitude towards those attacked, police general Bogoljub Živković, retired for supporting students, said that the police did not even want to receive a report - both by phone and the one at the Emergency Center - when his son Petar was brutally beaten. A day later, the attackers were identified and released to defend themselves.
However, in the case of the attack on Pavlović, the regime creates a media circus: there are wheelchairs, cameras from four regime televisions and a minister in full medical uniform. More people were arrested than for the canopy fall.
All in all, the regime in its spin sacrifices the pawn(s), and the pawns, I guess, count that one day they will pay dearly for it.
Reality twist
Third, there is pure projection at work. The regime sends its phalanxes, systematically violates human rights, relentlessly oppresses the judiciary, raises tensions to the brink of civil conflict in order to accuse the students and the rebellious society. This time, they decided on "Nazism, Fascism and Munich" in the 1930s. Citizens of Serbia, it seems that we really have reason to fear if this government stays where it is.
And most importantly - violence must not be justified either when it comes from above, or as a response to repression. The students in the blockade showed it best all these months. They were exposed to pressure, threats, physical attacks. They were trampled, beaten and blackmailed - while their attackers received the understanding and applause of the authorities. In spite of everything, the students responded maturely, calmly, and dignified.
A few days ago, at the bridge blockade, I witnessed a scene in which a middle-aged man verbally clashed with his peer who attacked the students. Student security guards intervene, calm down the protester and repeat: "Don't, we're not like them."
No matter how difficult the situation is, it should always be kept in mind.
