What is in the area of the former Yugoslavia marked the year behind us, but also the decades that preceded it? This is what he talks about in the holiday double issue of "Vremena". Dragan Markovina, the famous Bosnian and Croatian historian, publicist and activist.
Speaking of Serbia, Markovina strongly supports student movement which, as he says, woke up society and broke the feeling of hopelessness.
In his opinion, the students realized that the existing system was leading them either to emigration, or to submission to the regime, or to open rebellion.
"Students are not average, they can well see where Serbia is going under Vučić. They have also seen hopelessness, they have seen the sale of the country and realized that in the end this type of government literally kills. If the SNS stays in power, nothing will be left of Serbia", says Markovina for the new issue of "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday, December 25.
The students, he added, realized that they had the following choice: either to leave, or to join the ruling party, or to change society.
According to Markovina, the student rebellion delegitimized Vučić's regime.
"In my opinion, thanks to them, Vučić is politically dead. What worries me is their militant war against the opposition parties. Of course, the lack of a program, to check which line they are on, whether they inherit the same values that led Serbia to the current difficult situation. If that is the case, I am afraid that their struggle will not produce the results they want," Markovina says, among other things.
Markovina warns that the student movement must develop a clear political articulation and positions on key issues.
Read the entire interview with Dragan Markovin in the New Year's magazine "Vremena", which is on newsstands from Thursday, December 25. And you can subscribe to the print or digital edition as well.
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