First: Around 140.000 people at Slavija and around it showed that Aleksandar Vučić spoke nonsense when he claimed that everything was over, that he had defeated the "colored revolution", that the protests against his arbitrariness were falling away.
Second: It is still valid - when students call, citizens respond to their call.
Third: Protest "See you on Vidovdan" it remained without a climax and unfinished. In the end, the students announced that their guards were taking off their vests and that they were putting their rebellion in the hands and at the will of the citizens. They fenced off what came next.
Photo: Marija JankovićGathered at Slavija
Fourth: For the first time since the beginning of the peaceful demonstrations of students in the blockade more than half a year ago, there has been serious and hours-long skirmishes between dissatisfied citizens and special police units. For the first time, the police used tear gas and started beating citizens. The students formally distanced themselves from all that in advance. It is not a culmination or catharsis of the "See you for Vidovdan" protest because everything that followed was spontaneous.
Fifth: Once again it has been shown that endless speeches kill protest. Long before the official end of the student protest, the crowd began to disperse en masse from Slavia. The gassing of the huge crowd greatly facilitated the work of the Gendarmerie, who first pulled out their batons and then routinely suppressed a small number of people and arrested individuals.
Sixth: This ending of the Vidovdan protest benefits the progressive regime more than the citizens who stood up against the lawlessness and arbitrariness of Aleksandar Vučić. The President of Serbia will make up his mind on Sunday by declaring that he nicely said that there will be violence between 20.45:21.45 and XNUMX:XNUMX, and that he missed the time because the start of the protest was delayed; that the "state" easily dealt with the "terrorists" and that all the culprits of the riots will be arrested. The clashes between the demonstrators and the police seemed aimless. It is not clear why, for example, while Slavia's numerical strength was at its peak, they did not begin to block Andrić's wreath where Vučić was allegedly playing chess, or something like that, if it had already been decided not to play games because of Gandhi.
Photo: Vreme / MVNClashes in downtown Belgrade
Seventh: The student protest took on clearly patriotic-national colors and tones - from "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia", Momčilo Trajković and "Tamo daleko", through references to the saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church Nikolaj Velimirović, to Serbian "integralism" and the speech of the "hero from Košar". As if it was a response to all the attacks by Vučić and his spokesmen that they are foreign mercenaries, traitors and anti-Serbs.
Eighth: Even after June 28, nothing has been resolved and it is unclear what will be the further moves of the students in the blockade. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the regime will increase repression.
