What is recognition? Aleksandar Vučić to vomit after a dialogue with dissenters? Why does he praise the violent "heroism and courage"? Which is why it seems that he is Šešelj designed the campaignHow did he rehabilitate? Red berets, that very heart of darkness of the Yugoslav wars and the first post-October years? And - in that direction - what kind of dreams does he have?
Photo: Tanjug/Rade PrelićHeartfelt support for Vučić: Veterans of the "red berets"
In the editorial of the new issue of "Vremena", Filip Švarm recalls that Colonel-veteran of the Red Berets, Vasilije Mijović, in a speech on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of this unit, awarded the President of Serbia the honorary pseudonym "Aleksandar Veliki."
Photo: Draško GagovićAleksandar Vučić and his duke Vojislav Šešelj, Parliament of Serbia, March 24, 1998.
"Vučić was holding a tripod at Pale in 1992," Švarm writes. "When it is known that he shared Šešelj's vision of Serbia, whose borders are Karlobag - Karlovac - Virovitica, he could wear a Kalashnikov and a red beret, he was in the prime of life for that. And thanks to his political father's tricks, he would surely become an officer in the Unit very quickly. And a colonel like Mijović or the president of the veterans' association Žika Ivanović. Then he would get a real, not an honorary, pseudonym. And there are all kinds of them - Zmija, Legion, Kobac, Montenegrin, Rubber…”
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