Support and panaia

I saw the first telegrams of support on television, long before the socialists from Babušnica, during the treatment of Comrade Tito in Ljubljana. In addition to members of the Skoja Party, comrades and children also wrote, and each Diary began with a report from the medical council in which the health condition of the greatest son of our peoples and nationalities was expertly described. The people were vaguely told that the situation was not good, but Tito heroically fought against adversity and even performed his duties as a statesman. After his death, we learned that he was also a guest at the last Non-Aligned Summit in Havana, just to prevent Castro from bringing this movement closer to its "natural ally", that is, the Soviet Union. Indeed, in a political duel, Tito won, despite his advanced age and evidently poor health.

There are several pitfalls and pitfalls to be aware of when reporting on a leader's health. The beloved leader is a semi-ethereal being, and as you travel from the West to the East, he takes on mythical features, right down to the controversy over whether Kim Jong Un has a belly button or defecates.

If the Leader is sick, then in political propaganda his illness is used to enhance the importance of his actions. For example, despite high pressure, he performs his duties. As a rule, the leader does not respect the "doctor's advice", who are concerned, because he works despite warnings and prohibitions. This was the case with Tito's diet as well, because he secretly ate fatty and spicy food, not following a diet. However, in contrast to Titoist hedonism, our current leader presents himself as an ascetic.

The latest case - the return of the president from America - has reopened the question of his health. Vučić's health was the topic of all media on several occasions. Namely, unlike Ivica Dačić's diabetes, which is more like a Titoist health legacy, Vučić's high blood pressure is directly related to the stress he experiences in his job. Since he bears the burden of state responsibility for just about everything in Serbia, he came into situations that the media described as a "perfect storm". It comes to him like when all the problems come together and fall on your head. At this moment, Vučić has a dilemma about going to Moscow and the rather unclear situation with the protests, which he describes as a struggle with the "colored revolution", so perhaps he saw a way out in a meeting with Trump. It is not impossible that he saw himself in a megalomaniacal vision as a courier between the West and the East, between Trump and Putin. The mission failed, and he returned from Florida with high blood pressure. Thus, the story about Trump and Putin was replaced by the story about Vučić, more precisely about his health.

It is interesting and indicative that until today only one doctor spoke about this topic - Doctor Dinčić, a cardiologist, while Minister of Health Lončar stood behind him in silence. The only thing we actually learned was the fact that the president felt a brief sharp pain and had elevated blood pressure. We don't know why he flew back by plane in such a state for more than 10 hours, but that's where the official version ends up to this point. The president will talk about his health tomorrow (after the printing of this issue), as well as about his future moves.

That this is a strange epidemic is also shown by the case of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fitz, who also suddenly fell ill before his planned trip to Moscow. An unusual twist happened when he quickly recovered and wanted to show how he is in super condition. That's why he posted a photo in the style of Aquaman, swimming in the frozen Danube near Bratislava in some kind of sexy gay macho T-shirt. An icy macho style, like a half-naked Putin from his adventures in Siberia. I hope that Vučić will not swim in the Danube in Belgrade tomorrow to prove to us that he is fine, it is cold, and the pollution is very serious.

Well, Vučić's health became a political issue instead of a medical one. All his associates started to compete in writing panegyrics, telegrams of support and wishes for the president to recover as soon as possible from the pain, which is not serious, but at the same time it is.

Siniša Mali, hereinafter referred to as Doctor Mali, emotionally described how Vučić has a Prekodrina psychological structure that does not allow him to accept weakness. Confused by the time difference, he described Vučić to Dr. Čkonjević on RTS, but did not say what they did in Florida. The tabloids started a battle against Vučić's political opponents, whom they described as "vultures". The media campaign has the task of further discrediting critics and confirming loyalty to the Leader. The best example, in my humble opinion, and I've been following telegrams of support since the pioneering days, that is, for almost 50 years, wrote Minister Sofronijević, who at the end of her message wished Vučić a recovery, so that they could "visit some new corridors together..." again.

This is perhaps in the rank of the biggest intrusion to date, which was shown during the corona epidemic by the then supreme postman and former minister Zoran Đorđević, when a billboard with the Vučić brothers and the messages "Surrender is not an option, we are with you Andrej, our comrade and brother, the Vučićs are the winners, SNS Batajnica" was put up, because Andrej was infected with covid-19.

Of course, there is also the uncultured and malicious spreading of the disease of the powerful that you can see on social networks. I also remembered this kind of mischief from Tito's era, when his opponents and critics were talking in low voices about how he was going to "roar the stubble". I realized that it was the last weapon of the raja in an authoritarian society, perhaps inherited from the Turkish era, when pashas and viziers came and went, some from old age, some from the silk cord, and that the raja could only watch and welcome and see off the new rulers. I can neither accept nor understand that malice, which perhaps hides within itself the cowardice to really start a fundamental change, instead of the message that you will eat someone's panaia and spit on their grave.