The inscriptions worn by senior citizens at some anti-regime actions look touching, and on which the same message is written in different ways: "Students, please, save our country!" At the moment, about thirty faculties are blocked, with the tendency for this number to increase significantly, and the mass of demonstrators to increase, which is greatly contributed by the axis of Vučić's government. The strength of the student rebellion is expressed through the birth of a complex and innovative culture of resistance that has been so lacking until now, as well as through mutual solidarity
Just a month and a half ago, not even the most optimists among those whose duodenum has long since begun to rebel against thievery, boneheadedness, primitive propaganda and the clattering simpleton of the progressive regime would not have dared to assert what is evident today: there is enormous energy among the citizens of Serbia for the rebellion against the paranormal in which they live, and the multi-year surgical experiment with a shovel on the open brain did not take away their will for a normal life. It is the same among students and high school students, the same ones who are unfairly accused of being insufficiently interested in the reality that surrounds them.
It may sound cruel considering the scale of the tragedy, but the fall of the canopy at the Novi Sad Railway Station and the death of 15 people are more the cause than the cause of the current civil protests, including the student revolt against kabaddi. Why? Because it is clear to all reasonable people that such a thing as a canopy simply had to happen, that is, that it is the most logical product of the long-term and mindless government of the Serbian Progressive Party. It hijacked not only the state and its institutions, but also all professions. And not as the result of refined crime with a "handbag and a bow", but of the cruelest and most banal, crowbar-bandit who does not even adhere to street morals. And he is greedy to heaven. So, because it is clear to everyone that the canopy is only the culmination of the tragedies so far, because the half-literate half-world has declared itself experts, architects, builders, judges, prosecutors, medical specialists and nuclear physicists.
In addition to numerous civil protests and actions, the cancellation of obedience to the regime and public institutions and their employees, that is, protests and actions by which other ongoing and announced protests (environmental, due to the state of agriculture, educational...) add a synergistic effect to the rebellion against the regime - the student blockade of the faculty and other university institutions are currently the most prominent, that is, the most important.
The inscriptions worn by senior citizens at some anti-regime actions, on which the same message is written in different ways, look almost touching: "Students, please, save our country!" At the moment, about thirty faculties are blocked, with the tendency for this number to increase significantly in the coming days, and the mass of demonstrators to increase, which is greatly contributed by the axis of Vučić's government. The power of their rebellion is expressed through the birth of a complex and innovative culture of resistance that has been so lacking until now, as well as through mutual solidarity.
Tito, at the peak of power - due to his own political wisdom and willingness to listen to advisers, which his biographies confirm - decided that it was not very smart to mess with students, who managed to change not only the government but also the world with their protests. Then he determined that they were "right". It is possible that the remaining advisers, those who did not run away from him, also tell Vučić that it would be wise to drop the ball a little now, but this is not a wise politician, but only a screwdriver cunning, and cunning eventually ends up in the corner of the cage like a fox. Once upon a time. It is a substitute for wisdom. A long time ago, the president thought that he had absorbed all the wisdom of the world and in this regard even surpassed his teacher Vojislav Seselj.
There is a well-known algorithm by which the Vučić regime responds to protests. There is no inventiveness or subtlety here, just force. Even a village chicken farmer would come up with such a response to rebellions if he had the power that the ruling party has.
PRIMITIVE PROPAGANDA AND VIOLENCE
Basically - misinformation and other props of primitive propaganda. The demonstrators are, aren't they, those who work for foreign services and domestic interest groups to harm Serbia, which is riding a white horse into a bright future led by its all-seeing ruler. To those who live in the so-called to the media deserts and imprisoned in a cell bandaged by the regime media, along with this message is also sent that the protests are irrelevant and that "a handful of misery" is behind them. So, some kind of "extremists" and "fools". There are already legendary, sometimes successful attempts to sow discord among protest organizers, partly by disinformation, partly by activating certain blackmailed or bribed "elements" (this is not paranoia, the secret services do nothing but restrain and disperse opponents of the regime ). Along with this comes the identification of protests with opposition political parties, which have been demonized as such for a decade or so and in which the citizens do not have too much trust, and often they themselves do not really know why. That's how the students became - "Djilasovci".
There is also the inclusion of groups of criminal hooligans, fondly called fans, who bang, destroy, create chaos and for that they either get a fee or are forgiven for some crime. The goal, of course, is to portray peaceful demonstrations as violent, thereby either demobilizing or distancing part of the population from the goals of the rebellion. Of course, there is also force, i.e. the sowing of fear, a tool of all authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and the use of "ministries of force" to exhaust activists with countless criminal and misdemeanor charges, at the very least. The strength was also shown by the solidity of the progressive ranks.
Then, the diversion. Corona came to Vučić as ordered. If he had wondered, even today people would still be sitting en masse locked in their houses. And he would certainly sign these days to start the Third World War, in order to introduce a state of emergency, put on a uniform and sit in a tank. Last but not least, there is the purchase of time. It has been shown that the energy of even the biggest protests is exhausted over time, especially if they do not produce any results for a long period of time. This leads to disillusionment and mutual accusations within the rebels. As a rule, the opposition suffers the most.
For now, this algorithm does not give the desired results, it even produces counter-effects. First - because it has been used so many times that it is recognized even by a slightly more informed Danube catfish. Then, it is not the same for foreign mercenaries, part of the "hybrid war" against Serbia and its "legal government" to declare some "notorious" oppositionists and, along with them, students and even high school students. It doesn't work. For many years, Vučić used ministers or other lower-ranking officials for such accusations, and now he is doing it himself and in full capacity. Earlier, at least among those who were informed less than the mentioned Danube catfish, he left the impression that he was "above the situation", and now they also see that something strange is happening and that the president has gone mad. They are certainly not comfortable. Therefore, the very fact that Vučić entered the role of Aleksandar Vulin and Biljana Pilja indicates that the devil took the joke. It should not be forgotten that his sympathizers have grandchildren, children or friends who are students and high school students and who may participate in the demonstrations, or at least know that the story about money arriving in buckets, presumably from the West, is nonsense.
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The harder the president tries, the more students participate in protests, the more faculties are blocked and the more professors are ready to step out of their comfort zone and support students. However, presidential fabrications are dangerous because they further antagonize society and create preconditions for fierce turbulence in the near future. Perhaps they are an announcement that the government will start with more intense repression these days. Admittedly, she might have already started with her if she wasn't aware that it was a double-edged sword. The regime is in a phase where it is no longer sure who it can count on, and that makes it very nervous.
By long-term cruel and systematic destruction of opposition activities and other structured resistance groups, the regime dispersed the rebellion against itself, i.e. decentralized it, thereby making the task more difficult for itself. Come on now, cousin, check the current protests these days, who is organizing them, who is participating in them, what is being planned... Too many people are involved, citizens have organized themselves. There is no BIA, VBA, and other software that can intercept communications between rebels. The regime would give a lot of money to some people to stop the protests, but I don't know to whom, I know that they wouldn't even take the money or at least that there is no money for everyone.
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AN ANSWER TO WHICH THEY HAVE NO ANSWER
Citizens self-initiatively collect groceries and other necessities for students, and the regime's lies are, so to speak, organically - with the participation of a large number of people - on social networks broken at the speed of light. Unrelated to the student protests, but very indicative, the citizens organized themselves, as if they were the FBI, to follow the direction of the dangerous shot from the demolition of the "Yugoslavia" hotel. They showed that, which is not unexpected, it refers to a wild dump. The identity of thugs and provocateurs who attack citizens at protests, threaten them, and insult them is revealed very quickly and their place in the pyramid of power and crime is learned. Sometimes it is not difficult because the government, certainly lacking capacity, has to take its officials, including tycoons, to the streets. On the other hand, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people make a contribution, sometimes millimeter but still a contribution, to the fight for justice and truth.
photo: milica vucković / fonet...
Here we come to another important detail. We have already said that the government is no longer sure who it can count on. Some mice have already left the ship or are in the process of packing. Few of them will want to go down with the captain. If, in addition to 700000 members, they have to hire mayors and directors of public companies to attack citizens and honk at them from their cars, it is clear that things are not going well. The progressive paramilitary is made up of mercenaries who easily turn against their commanders. Especially if the commanders are greedy, so they take everything for themselves and give them crumbs. It should not be forgotten that the progressives have already dealt with many of their important people, and cruelly. Does anyone doubt that they do not dream of revenge, no matter what they say now, or what they keep silent about?
Because of all this, the government does not start an even fiercer confrontation with the demonstrators and students. The international factor prevents them a bit.
As for the inclusion of thugs in the protests, they partially managed to confuse a part of the citizens by smashing the Novi Sad City Hall on November 5. However, most knew about the eater. In the end, it was not the first time that the progressives attacked this institution, hiding behind the anti-Vučić protesters. This has been known for a long time in Novi Sad, and who was in charge of this operation a few years ago. That guy is currently in jail for overplaying himself in some other games.
But the dispersed protest makes it impossible to apply this method in the current actions. Citizens are aware that the goal of the provocateur is for one of the citizens who are paying tribute to the victims of the tragedy on the street to lose their temper and slam their fist, so that Vučić visits Hepi 40 times. They guard against this, showing admirable calmness and dignity. For the government, the problem will be raised to a cube if other dissatisfied social groups (and there are no satisfied ones except those who parasitize in the lap of the government) rise up and if one, in old-fashioned words, a popular protest is created. Only if that happens, her algorithm will be completely unusable.
The power of God does not beg, but it does not help much. Progressive thugs and provocateurs look ridiculous, and arresting activists only adds to the anger. Arrested for the third time, Goran Ješić quickly became one of the most popular opposition politicians. The demonstrators imposed the topic - Vučić can talk about the Third World War, international conspiracies, the Expo and economic successes on all national television stations for days at a time, but he doesn't like it. It seems even to those citizens who live in media black holes. And they are, at the very least, aware that something strange is going on.
THIS AND PREVIOUS CASES
There remains, of course, the purchase of time, which can somewhat cloud the hope of the optimists. There is no doubt that the regime is counting on the "unrest" soon to "cover rosemary, snow and sedge" and that the sodden energy will "blow to the south". Realistically, that calculation is not without foundation. There are holidays, there is Saint January. Everything that has happened so far has been extinguished by time, even the most massive protests have relatively quickly extinguished themselves. And then, as we said, mutual accusations started - who is to blame for that.
Let's remember, for example, the "Against Dictatorship" protest in 2017, which was the first major anti-regime act during the time of this grand vizier. It was organized and mainly attended by students, but quickly deflated as if they had never been there. None of the demands have been met - replacement of the head of public services, REM, checking of voter lists...
How are the demonstrations then and now different? The students back then were mostly confused, most of them didn't even know what they were protesting for and against, they somehow intuitively felt that something was seriously wrong in the country. Let's remember that in the presidential elections that preceded the protests, a number of young people even voted for something called Beli Preletacevic. Now the situation is different. Everything is clear to the students. It takes a long time to not get completely naked.
The protests in 2017 took place while the regime was at the height of its power: it killed the opposition, bought some, destroyed some, and had support from all over the world. Compared to that time, now this is a ruin from the regime. If the energy rebels and disappears this winter, it will appear again very quickly, and unfortunately there will be a reason. Ever since it came to power in this country, the progressive government has only produced reasons and reasons for every thinking being to oppose it with all its being.
Whoever understood that, he will not give up the rebellion. Especially not young people who are difficult, practically impossible to bribe and scare.
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