The President announces a large gathering in Belgrade in barely filled rural centers of culture. He only hopes that the other side will not be able to see things through. And then they will be blessed
The first among us added another one to the fantastic epithets he unsparingly showers on himself - now he is also a counter-revolutionary against the invented colored revolutions.
Such as the Commander-in-Chief without a rank, the locomotive of non-existent economic progress, the survivor of a bunch of fake assassinations, the steadfast defender of Kosovo, which he abandoned, and so on.
Now he announces "putting the country in order" because "after every unsuccessful color revolution, there follows a successful counter-revolution."
Admittedly, there is some truth in those words. Let's say that Aleksandar Vucic has always been a "counter-revolution", a Chetnik reactionary.
The barely veiled threat of "bringing the country to order" is already being carried out - by smearing everyone in the rebellion, retaliating against teachers, part of the non-governmental sector, restaurateurs who support the general strike, firing people who support the protests.
If only there was a revolution...
The core of the statement is of course false. There is no "colored revolution" in Serbia. Speaking of which, there is neither a classical revolution nor revolutionary demands.
Serbia is as far from Jovobakić's "running around the streets" as it is from Switzerland.
On the street, it is only required - to respect some order. Constitution, laws, better customs.
All this greatly upsets the first among us, because his regime is based on the violation of the Constitution, laws and better customs. His system is a dense spider's web of tender-pashes, new millionaires, motorists and classic criminals.
If the Constitution, laws and better customs were to be respected, they could only live in Zabel.
Powerless president
Vučić is still a real "reactionary" today. He just reacts. He's not good at it because he's not used to it. He used to dictate topics and chop up narratives.
Faced with student and popular rebellion, with those hundreds of thousands of people who willingly march, block, protest, pump, who welcome each other with food, hugs and tears - Vučić does not know what to do.
In barely filled country houses of culture, he announces a big meeting in Belgrade. Again in order to strike a reaction and a counter to the announced gathering of students and people on March 15.
This is no stranger to him - he also organized counter-meetings after the rampage in "Ribnikar" and the villages of Mladenovac.
For the first time, Vučić can't really do anything, but only hope that the other side won't be able to see things through.
Students carry a heavy burden.
On that other side, like it or not, the only relevant political factor is the students. Only they, dissociating themselves from everyone and everything, managed to wake up Serbia, free it from fear and motivate it to such endurance in the protest.
There is a big burden on the students. They did not want to share it with, say, the opposition in fear that it would blow up the protests.
That's why before March 15, the question for students is how to get out of this. Will they demand a transitional government and fair elections? Or will they wait for this government to fulfill their famous four demands and then return to learning? Or do they think that they can go on forever like this, neither here nor there?
Whatever they decide, they have already done a huge job and written their generation into history.
But now they know that if the matter is not carried out to the end, they and everyone else will be awaited by the blade of Vučić's "counter-revolution".
RTS is blocked, universities do not work, and threats, insults and calls to the prosecutor's office and the police to arrest blockers, rioters and terrorists are pouring out from the top of the government. The Serbian state has turned into a farce
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
The government of Đur Mazut is "counter-revolutionary", focused on retaliation and state and street violence against opponents of the regime
Depriving Dejan Ilić, an intellectual with an impeccable life and work biography, of his freedom, without the slightest meaningful reason, is just one of the brutal indicators that the regime has turned against its own citizens and is entering a phase of terror
Where Seselj left off, Vucic continues. Why did Ana Grozdanović, a member of the SPS Main Board, deserve the position of Minister of Justice in Dr. Macuta's government? And what the regime wants to achieve with the Stalinist campaign of intimidation
RTS is blocked, universities do not work, and threats, insults and calls to the prosecutor's office and the police to arrest blockers, rioters and terrorists are pouring out from the top of the government. The Serbian state has turned into a farce
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
The government of Đur Mazut is "counter-revolutionary", focused on retaliation and state and street violence against opponents of the regime
Vučić and Šešelj: Where I stopped, you continue
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