Last revised on October 5th

From year to year, heritage melts in the media October 5After the murder Zoran Djindjic, this process was started by spreading theories about a big conspiracy, foreign intelligence services, the mafia that eventually killed him, and the new leaders wanted to emphasize in different ways their irreplaceable role in the overthrow of Milošević. It was a phase in which everyone wanted to present themselves as the true heirs of Djindjic, because he was, without any doubt, the main initiator and leader of the changes. After the return of radicals and socialists to power in the Vučić era, there was a short period when Vučić liked to compare himself to Zoran Đinđić as a reformer and visionary, and even more often as a victim of assassination.

However, in the last year, more precisely since the beginning of the student and civil uprising, and after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, the revision of October 5 has been incredibly accelerated.

In his unpublished work, which we will not see at this year's Book Fair, under the working title "How I Defeated the Colored Revolution", Vučić began to call the October 5th changes the First Colored Revolution, while the second is now underway. This is actually an analogy with the actions of foreign spies, mercenaries, crazy and bought youth who, during breaks from drug use and spending the millions of dollars they are paid, bring down the state. Unfortunately, with the choral and highly coordinated campaign of the TV tabloids, it was necessary to prevent at all costs any thought that it might occur to someone to mark more significantly the 25 years since the overthrow of our previous dictator from the nineties.

It would be very logical to show from the historical distance of a quarter of a century today that the democratic changes were actually insufficient, because Serbia failed to create democratic institutions and prevent a U-turn into a new authoritarian government, which has lasted for more than a decade.

How else could we explain the sad fact that these days one of the greatest achievements of change, namely the visa-free regime for EU countries, is being symbolically lost. You can say that the new EES system for collecting biometric data of our citizens is "just a formality", just like the announced registration fee that we will renew every three years, but today we will once again be in a situation where we stand in line and wait for some kind of permission, whatever you call it. Should someone other than Mr. Senicic from the Association of Tourist Organizations speak on this topic? It seems that our path to the EU is currently being presented as a short tourist trip, no longer than 90 days in total, and I remember that the first date that was promised to us was in 2007, when Boža posed with a ballpoint pen.

Before the fall of Milošević, we were constantly bombarded with terrorist threats, arrests of his alleged assassins, and Otpor, like students today, was declared a terrorist organization responsible for the death of a minister during a visit to the Novi Sad Agricultural Fair. This madness is repeated today, with increasingly intense winks and support from the Russians, so, after the Russian intelligence service, Putin addressed our youth today.

The anniversary of October 5 would be a prelude to another anniversary that the government is also shying away from, which is a full year since the death in Novi Sad. That's why RTS broadcast a short news in Dnevnik on October 5, with a picture of the Parliament on fire. One sentence after 25 years and you really think we'll forget.

Even legalization for 100 euros on my account is the fourth repetition of the same story. In its latest edition, Večernje nicely sublimated it for the common people - if it has a roof, it's a house!

The state also plans to completely disassociate itself from any future responsibility for any tragedies that may occur when any temporary building structures collapse.

This is actually a definitive recognition of the state's defeat in dealing with planning in the field of urbanism in any way. Like in Orhan Pamuk's novel about Istanbul, where the rule in the suburbs was that if you build a shack out of cardboard, sheet metal, and boards in one night and it has a roof in the morning, the city authorities will not demolish it. Poor people from Anatolia lived in those favelas, and then Erdoğan's businessmen built them faceless apartment blocks. In the last earthquake, you could see in which city the inspections were doing their work, and where wild and unplanned construction was legalized. Just like in Novi Sad, this kind of state mercy is sometimes paid for with human lives. Before that, of course, someone gets rich quickly and uncontrollably.

This year's laureate for the penitent witness on October 5 is Branislav Lečić, who had an inspired repentance in "Cirilica", adding a new conspiracy theory, according to which his contribution to the victory of Koštunica over Milošević was the result of deceiving the voters that, according to Tarabić, it was Kostunica who was the savior of Serbia.

On October 5, there is no talk of Kosovo either, because elections are being prepared there, and no one has explained to the Serbs in Kosovo or to the Serbs outside Kosovo why they pompously and wrongly left the institutions and left them to Kurti?

However, not everyone has forgotten October 5 and the hope it brought. Only the people of Čačan remembered that day and gathered in considerable numbers, showing that they are still the most screwed-up city in Serbia, stating that we are still in the same political "circular flow" today. They weren't really in the mood for Boško Obradović to speak to them, and I'm not sure that Velja was there, who was at the head of the Čačan column on the way to Belgrade. Kudos to the people of Čača, they reminded us that the spirit of rebellion still exists, today it is absolutely present in the protests of students, who often described their struggle as a continuation of the struggle of us, their parents. Today, just as it should, it has no titleholder, successor or the only true interpreter, because we don't need the Tarabići, or Lečić to pretend, or Koštun to show mercy and run for office, nor Legija, nor Soros, nor the foreign service, nor defectors from the SPS, but citizens and their smart children. This is what was passed on to the next generation and what Vučić's media blockade on October 5 will never destroy.

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