dictatorship

A special unit of the Gendarmerie in full gear to break up demonstrations on a hummer

Comment

03.February 2026. Andrei Ivanji

When we blow and fire, we will destroy Ćaciland

Milo Đukanović ruled Montenegro for 32 years. Vučić would at least trade Serbia that much, which means another 18 years - with the police force, secret services, paramilitary party formations, restrained judiciary and enraged tabloids.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Đuro Matsut in suits and ties. In the background two flags of Serbia.

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02.February 2026. Ivan Milenkovic

Collapse of the system and Jailization of Serbia

The game mode is all or nothing. Vučić has absolutely no idea what to do, except try to rule, literally, the police force and the tabloids. Because the state system fell apart as a result of violence, theft and incompetence, as in Zaječar

Comment

16.August 2025 Ivan Milenkovic

The private violence of the president of all the beatings of Serbia

The president of all the clubbers in Serbia is writing a historical grotesque: he is trying, through the process of branding, to make citizens out of clubbers, and to turn citizens into clubbers.

Culture of memory: Students and the police

09.July 2025 Filip Mirilović

The repressive dream of every dictatorship

With the imposition of a state of emergency and curfew, the use of the military, and eventually arrests, protesters in Chile were persecuted and punished. Decrees were introduced whereby university rectors were appointed by the army, while campuses were nationalized or privatized. It was only in 1987, near the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, that the students managed to force the regime to make concessions through a new series of protests and restore some kind of limited autonomy.

Albanija

11.April 2025. Vilma Filjaj-Balvora/DW

Forty years since the death of Enver Hoxha: A million bunkers and death to the Bible

Exactly 40 years have passed since the death of Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist dictator from Albania. During his reign, he turned Albania into one of the most isolated areas in the world. Some consequences are felt even today

Comment

08.April 2025. Ivan Milenkovic

Logic falls and wants from the asphalt

If the citizens' protests stopped, would the regime have the strength to fight back, to carry out a successful "counter-revolution"? To start terror, like the one in Belarus? Fallen logic says it wouldn't

Political reality

06.January 2024 Ivica Dobrić

Opposition in Serbia: A million eager people

Politics is not a chase with barbarians, but an effort to organize a political community. If Serbia against violence fails to establish itself as a single political entity, it will fail a million people on whose shoulders it stands

Analyze

28.December 2023 Ivica Dobrić

Protests: Patience against the grinning simpleton

Impatience and resignation are not allies of those who resist dictatorship. Populist-type dictatorships do not fall quickly or easily, so it is important to notice several motives that can be seen from a distance.

Comment

05.October 2023 Ivan Milenkovic

Twelve Years of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the October 5th Republic

If we remove the emotional burdens, disappointed hopes and disappointments from the interpretation of October 5, and resist speculations, conjectures and bargaining (what if it had been), an indisputable circumstance remains: the period from the fall of Slobodan Milošević (so October 5, 2000) to the coming to power of Aleksandar Vučić, was the freest period in the history of Serbia

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15.August 2023 Ivica Dobrić

When the state turns against the citizens: an autoimmune disease of Serbian society

In an autoimmune disease, the defense cells attack the healthy cells of one's own organism instead of what attacks it. When we transfer the logic of the immune system, i.e. the autoimmune reaction, to the plan of society, we can diagnose it with perfect reliability.

News

20.December 2021 M.M

Chile: Gabriljel Borić, leftist, millennial and president of the country

The next tenant of the Chilean presidential palace La Moneda became the leftist of Croatian origin Gabriel Borić. The left in Chile has been growing stronger since 2019 when it was rocked by social protests. The new president promises to reduce the gap between rich and poor, equal health care for all and finally breaking the shackles of Pinochet's dictatorship.

Cult of personality

30.August 2017 Andrei Ivanji

Gods among us

Not everyone can be a leader. Monuments are not built for everyone during their lifetime, cities and streets are named after them. Not every head of state or government aspires to be worshiped by the masses, to have songs written for him, to have ministers obey him without question, to be sinless, to be a deity. These are people of a special kind. They have one thing in common regardless of their ideology: they are all covert or open dictators and build a cult of personality so that they can rule unhindered and for life.