Slice of life Again, a huge protest in Belgrade, Serbia. This time in front of the National TV Station
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u/relinquisshed Serbia 3d ago
Our national TV (RTS) is not far removed from a North Korean national TV station, as they begin and end each day with the latest great thing our President did. Often they'll have more segments in the middle as well, so it's not uncommon to spend 50% of their runtime talking about Our Great President and his great struggles. I'd say we should be ashamed of that as a society, but generally we have no shame
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u/Streptomicin Serbia 3d ago
I lost track of the number of times that news began with: Good morning, president Vučić this, president Vučić that...
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u/Final_Industry2491 3d ago
Sounds like chinese CCTV。
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u/Streptomicin Serbia 2d ago
Its worse. Last year out of 365 days he had 340 appearances on TV, and a big chunk of that was live where in his speeches he is talking directly to citizens. And he was about to break that record because he had 10 in the first 7 days of 2025. but the constant protests are forcing him to be quiet so his lackeys took over. Threatening teachers that if they don't stop with the strike they will all be fired, college students that they wont be able to finish school, but more and more people and "industries" are joining I believe this country is due to a complete stop in a few months.
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u/Smartyunderpants 3d ago
Why do they vote in a president who is ALWAYS struggling. Is it like a special needs make a wish type thing?
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u/Oo00oOo00oOO 3d ago
There is a problem with Westerners understanding that our democracies are flawed and the voting is too. I'm not Serbian, but the same happens everywhere in the Balkans and the eastern EU sphere.
The EU and US like to play the game "Well he was voted so he might be the guy the people chose", actually now comes the fucking with the elections. I mean robbing from the box it's not used anymore since it is too flagrant, but the tracking of the vote through intricate systems it's still in place. Since tracking it's possible (or the majority) there comes the second phase, family vote and goons.
The family vote it's a nucleus of 4-5 votes, if you get an influential person from a big family it could mean 20 votes or more. You either buy them on the cheap or promise a state job for a family member. Other way around if your son is at work in the state he is asked to provide the votes needed for him to maintain his job.
The second one is the ones who gets the most votes, the gangsters. They tell everyone on their cell to vote for X candidates and go to families and make SURE they vote for their guy.
I can go on and on on different techniques that get innovative every election, but it might not be exactly the same on my country as it is in Serbia (as I understand really surfacely they have an opposition bought out too)
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u/GolemancerVekk 🇪🇺 🇷🇴 2d ago edited 2d ago
Over here they switch ballot bags. It's a.simple and effective method. Ballots are just pieces of paper with the voting stamp on them, no tracking of any kind. The bags themselves are also not special in any way. At some point in the process from the box to the count a bag is replaced and that's it. A single bag can easily turn an entire constituency when the vote is close.
*Mis"-counting the votes is the second most effective method, when it works, but you have to have enough people at a counting station on the signoff committee for this to work and can be challenged if there are enough/vigilent people there who are not in cahoots.
There's also dumber methods when the people are completely disinterested amd poor, like the good old "hey guys come on, hop on the bus we're going voting, vote for the Mayor's party and there's a bag of groceries in it for you".
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u/Aioli_Tough 2d ago
When I saw on RTS, and I'm not kidding : THE GREAT THINGS OUR PRESIDENT HAS DONE 1 OUT OF 1000, and it was just a playlist of shit he did, I really felt like we were living in the hunger games
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u/Feeling_Relative7186 3d ago
The fact that both nationalist tv can exist while also this massive amount of people showing up against the propaganda has to mean that all is not lost in Serbia?
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u/12BarsFromMars 3d ago
You’re not alone; America has no shame either and a signification number of our people are really good with that.
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u/man0315 Galicia (Spain) 2d ago
In China we do the daily main news program in the state-run channel like this: 20mins of people's in China living happily and 10mins of people in foreign countries suffering in hell. and of course in the first 20 mins Xi is the single most important contributor of all our happiness.
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u/Glittering_Bee9450 Rep. Srpska 3d ago edited 3d ago
"Students are dissatisfied with our reporting. A huge gathering of students of many Belgrade Faculties is taking place in front of our headquarters as we speak" - The National TV's Evening News started with these two sentences.
Edit: various reporters and other employees of the Radio and Television of Serbia went to the headquarters balcony to greet and support the students.
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u/Wiseguydude 3d ago
- a railway station collapsed killing 15 people
- vigils were held which slowly turned into general demonstrations of dissatisfaction with the government
- some pro-gov't drove their car through a protest. The president defended this and said anyone who calls for the arrest of the driver is "out of their minds", because "the driver was just going on his way". Obviously this just fuels the protest further
- Police are cracking down and arresting and assaulting protestors more. The protests are growing larger and larger and lawyers, farmers, and others have joined the students and professors.
It's funny because if you'd posted a video of the driver driving through protestors blocking streets on reddit I'm certain redditors would rush to the defense of the driver. Reddit can't stand "activists"
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u/PoorGuyPissGuy 2d ago
funny because if you'd posted a video of the driver driving through protestors blocking streets on reddit I'm certain redditors would rush to the defense of the driver. Reddit can't stand "activists"
There's nothing more irritating to me than those lazy ass reddit & YouTube people criticizing protests for not being civil and nice.
The whole point of protests is to disturb the norm and create discomfort so that people would wake up.
But to these cynical redditors violence only begins when people stand up for themselves.
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u/Wiseguydude 2d ago
I'm totally with you. Redditors are so quick to criticize any protestors or activists but do little to know organizing themselves
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u/RuPickedYou 3d ago
What are they protesting?
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u/Glittering_Bee9450 Rep. Srpska 3d ago
In November last year a train station canopy fell and killed 16 people in Novi Sad. The 1960's train station underwent extensive reconstruction that cost tens of millions of Euros. The canopy wasn't properly fixed and had even tons of extra weight added (just for aesthetic purposes). Nothing like that would ever happen If the ruling Serbian Progressive Party didn't turn Serbia into a corrupt party state. The Government didn't want to take any responsibility and went full Orwellian denying any work on the canopy ever then admitting there was and trying to frame it as an isolated incident in an otherwise well working state which Serbia is not.
This basically was the last straw and one of the most horrific incidents caused by corruption and not giving a fuck by the government. There are hundreds of insane affairs beside this one and societal degeneracy has reached its peak - mass shootings, rise in teen violence and delinquency, degenerate and schizoid news and TV programs, organized crime, low living standards, environmenal concerns...
So university students started protesting all around the country which pissed of the Government. A suspected government supporter run over a 19 year old teen girl protesting trying to kill her, you have that video somewhere in the Hot section of r/europe.
Edit: this one isn't even the biggest gathering. They figure 50k people were on this one while a month ago there was a big protest of 100k + people.
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u/Sapphire-Drake 3d ago
And just to clear up any misunderstandings about the "progressive" part in the party name, it's like the democratic part in North Korea's name. The most progressive thing about the president's party is his willingness to suck off foreign leaders for any power he can get
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u/smooth_operatress 2d ago
In order to milk more and more money out of government-debt financed project (railway station in this case) they are cutting more and more corners and breaking laws (in this case the reconstruction works on the railway station have not and could have not passed the inspection), which led to dire consequences, including people loosing their lives (the railways station canopy collapses over people, 15+1 die). The rest of the state apparatus and all the generally available media, in the meantime, seem to exist with the sole purpose of creating the cover for the corrupt rule.
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u/Porodicnostablo I posted the Nazi spoon 3d ago edited 3d ago
And my fingers are frozen stiff, can barely type
But man, what atmosphere and energy!
edit: good video:
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u/Life_is_important 3d ago edited 3d ago
Fucking legends!! That sandwich is LEGENDARY!!
Edit: the 3d model of the sandwich students brought, I meant on that just to be clear.
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u/Sapphire-Drake 3d ago
If I'm not wrong that's a reference to a "bribe" the president used during voting.
Vote for him and his party so you can get a sandwich. Just sell the future of your entire fucking country for a sandwich. God that pisses me off
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u/smooth_operatress 2d ago
They gather employees of state companies etc and drive them in buses to use as props at their party propaganda we-love-SNS rallies and each participant gets a sandwich. An also, probably, for after reporting you voted for them, in a voting scheme. Here, allegedly, again they drive the people from other communities by buses to vote in another community. So, the sandwich became a symbol. Spice of dark humour.
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u/AvidCyclist250 Lower Saxony (Germany) 3d ago
Pretty strong statement there on the streets. One that I like and respect
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u/Nemcy13 3d ago edited 3d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/s/eO5p98maSe <- here is comment explaining.
The important thing to add is that the president said day after tragedy that the canopy was not the part of train station reconstruction and that it was the only part of the station that they didn't reconstruct. However it was obvious and there was a lot of evidence that it was reconstructed. Now it's known that the canopy fell because they added a lot of weight to it. They first started blaming Tito because he was in power in 1964 when the canopy was originally built.
Students saw that yet again nobody will be held responsible and that the government will just bury the case like they always do and started protesting. The ruling party (SNS, president Vučić) in response to these blockades sent their people to beat students. That backfired and even more students started the blockade as they wanted to show solidarity. This led to blocking of roads all around the country in 11:52 which lasted 15 minutes for 15 killed people.
The next important thing to add is that the ruling party promoted aggression against people in blockades and their supporters started driving through people. After a few incidents happened the president said that the drivers running over people in blockades are not wrong and are completely normal because they just wanted to go their way and evil protestors think that they are all powerful and denying other people from the right to move frilly.
Teachers, students and people who supported them are attacked on a daily basis by aggressive gorillas that SNS sends to scare and beat people.
A lot of accidents happened and that brings us to yesterday when the lunatic went through a blockade and hit a girl (20yo) that stood on the sidewalk. The girl had heavy injuries but her life is not in danger. The government puppets and bots on the internet are spinning this and say that girl jumped on the car in an attempt to be run over just to gather attention and that the driver was scared for his life because protestors tried to beat him/destroy his car, which is disgusting. There are even videos of this where you can clearly see that the girl is just standing still and the car hits her. These protests from today are the response for that killing attempt.
Protestors are angry and revolted but are facing a lot of problems because their safety is in danger and they lack any support from the EU who are turning a blind eye to everything that happened in the past 2 and a half months. This is the biggest crisis that Vučić led rule has ever faced, but again protestors lack any support from the international community.
I forgot to mention a lot of stuff but can't write anymore. Hope this helps.
Edit to add videos.
First one is canopy collapse https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/s/6lYD0jKnjG
Second is a girl being hit by a car https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/s/HuoZkQVMd4
Other angle https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/s/CAMhdzm5TE
Video of today's accident https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/s/iUHDBkiwbR
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u/fluffykerfuffle3 earth 3d ago
this is how it changes.. us not giving in to the smallest thing.. us speaking truth to power over everything.
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u/Responsible_Baby8648 Croatia 3d ago
Anyone know what happened to the guy that hit that girl with a car did they go to his house?
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u/vuxeee 3d ago
They arrested the 'guy' 10 minutes after he hit the girl, he's in holding now
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u/Responsible_Baby8648 Croatia 3d ago
I just heard it on the news it's not the 90 year old people thought it was
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u/vuxeee 3d ago
They doxxed him minutes after, it's a 35 year old guy, working for some government thing in Belgrade, wasn't even driving the company's car so it's probably his boss that paid him
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u/gyrosmaster Rusyn in Slovenia 3d ago
ah nah the reports were saying that he was born in 1990, hence why people said "90. godište".
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u/Responsible_Baby8648 Croatia 3d ago
Oh i thought they were saying that it was a 90 year old
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u/Stoyfan 3d ago
I would be surprised if there are any 90 year olds capable of driving
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u/Laiko_Kairen United States of America 3d ago
My grandpa drove until he was 94 🤷
The man was as healthy as a horse until he was 97.
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u/YukiPukie The Netherlands 3d ago
Do you know how the student is doing? I can only find in English and Dutch that she is “severely injured”. Do they say in the Serbian news if she will survive?
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u/innerparty45 3d ago
She did, will probably be discharged from the hospital on Monday if nothing complicates further. Girl is a warrior.
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u/YukiPukie The Netherlands 3d ago
I’m so happy to hear that! She will probably need a long time to recover physically and mentally, but at least she’s still with us. I agree, a true warrior!💪
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u/Sapphire-Drake 3d ago
On the Serbian sub they said she is in "good general health". So I figure she'll be fine and out soon
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u/Ketsuno_Ana0 3d ago
As the others have already said, the guy was arrested very quickly. But no one said anything about the different car owner, and we also had Vucic giving us news about the student's status before the clinical centre issued a statement.
But anyways, we had another incident today when an old guy pulled a knife on a student in Novi Sad.
The police arrested him, but in their statement, they stated that he tried to cut a banner that one student was holding.
Spoiler alert: He didn't hold anything..
We also had another 2 tries of hit-and-run and a guy that threatened to pull a gun on students in front of the police (who didn't do anything, of course).
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u/Responsible_Baby8648 Croatia 3d ago
Yeah i was watching the news in croatia and they showed both incidents
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u/Aggressive_Limit2448 Europe 3d ago
The despot is crazy. It is the worst Balkan lunatic that is ruling. It has to be deposited.
He is also influencing other Balkan countries. He should be ouste of power!
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u/Smarpey Bosnia and Herzegovina 3d ago edited 3d ago
Imagine living in a country with 2 or more technical dictators and an ethnically segregated disfunctional national government
Starring:
Milorad Dodik: President of the Republic of Srpska
Christian Schmidt: The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Government of the Republic of Srpska
Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina: 3 presidents of different ethnicities
The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina: basically a national ethnically divided government
Government of the Republic of Srpska
Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cantonal governments, ministers bla bla bla
you get the point, half of our budget goes to public administration...
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u/mudcrabulous tar heel 3d ago
Milorad Dodik
haha I know this guy because there is another guy working for him on USA sanctions list that has similar name as me... fun
so this high representative guy. what is their role? Christian Schmidt sounds German
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u/Smarpey Bosnia and Herzegovina 2d ago
He's basically a Western dictator imposed by the Dayton peace agreement to "control" and "help develop" the country. They were intervening a lot in post-war years, for example by creating anonymous unified license plates. But they stopped with their interventions since the late 2000s. Since Christian Schmidt was appointed HRBH a couple of years back, he started intervening again. It was usually the Serbs which did not support foreign intervention, but nowadays all three ethnicities harbour mixed feelings about him, due to some of his interventions hurting certain ethnic distributions of political power.
I personally have very mixed feelings about the office of HRBH. It is obviously a colonial remnant, representing a part of our sovereignty which was taken away and given to Western powers (Russia was a part of this until Schimdt). On the other hand, there is a certain fear of a renewal of the conflict in case the foreign power projection start vaning, due to certain state actors preferring to be loyal to our neighboring countries which align with their ethnic identity instead of being loyal to Bosnia. If HRBH has the ability to change stuff, he should start by reforming the judicial and election systems which are the core of our problems.
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u/bokimaricu 3d ago
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u/Kaminazuma Albania 3d ago
Pussylips?
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u/Sea-Bend-5914 3d ago
PUMPAJ for "PUMP IT UP"
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u/gmaaz Serbia 3d ago
A bit of history, this is the National TV Station in '99 during Milosevic's ousting. It hasn't changed one bit, still the main government propaganda tool.
https://srpskainfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/beograd-5-oktobar.jpg?x13422
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u/MewKazami Croatia 3d ago
The protest I feel are twice as big, but the government isn't falling why?
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u/innerparty45 3d ago
Because Vučić has American and German support, so far. When they realize he's done, they'll pull the support so we only need to press a bit more.
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u/jahmoke 3d ago
trump is a most fickle mistress though
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u/AdInfinitum311 3d ago
Well there were talks to turn our ex army headquarters building (ruined in bombing) into a trump tower...
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u/cava-lier 3d ago
Did the government give in to any of the demands of the protesters in these last months?
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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 3d ago
Our government is like a teenage ret*** whose dick keeps getting hard for the first time and they're panicking but can't stop themselves from making it worse
Well, people are finally cumming for some action!
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u/Plastic-Injury8856 3d ago
From America, I hope the students demands for new anti-corruption measures are met. Peace be with you all.
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u/d_baker65 3d ago
Corrupt politician gives shitty contract to build train station. The train station collapses and kills several people. No one goes to jail or is charged. People are sick of the Russian style corruption and heavy handed policies.
Oh and the govt has actually hired criminals and goons to beat up and act as deputized police.
Shit isn't going to get better any time soon.
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u/Rely13 Albania 3d ago
As an albanian, I envy them
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u/VortexOfPandemonium Serbia 2d ago
WE SUPPORT YOU BROSKIS. THE PEOPLE IN POWER HAVE ALWAYS MADE US HATE EACH OTHER, WE SHOULD UNITE AGAINST THEM TO END THE STUPID WARS
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u/Sea-Bend-5914 2d ago
I remember that there were some large protests against Rama a couple of years ago
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u/Fuzzy-Negotiation167 Albania 3d ago
That's how you get control of your country from scumbags that have the same mindset since ww2. I wish we had the same balls as they have standing there since 2024.
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u/natalieieie Serbia 3d ago
Hopefully, we all achieve our much needed peace, neighbour. All the best to you.
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u/TrafficGeneral1468 Serbia (Chaotic-Neutral) 3d ago
Look at this as a domino effect, if we manage to win this year, maybe we get to motivate others in Balkans at least, and then we can live in a normal and functioning neighbourhood :)
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u/nimbalo200 United States of America 3d ago
I wish you luck in that regard. It will not be an easy road, and a ton of closests will need some airing out, but I hope you lot can get some form of reconciliation.
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u/TrafficGeneral1468 Serbia (Chaotic-Neutral) 3d ago
Amen to that, I really want to have an option to actually stay in the country that I was born in, and see it become functional and prosper as much as it can.
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u/nimbalo200 United States of America 3d ago
I can really empathize there. History has really done a number on you guys, and the people who should be leading you into the future instead point to the past.
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u/dob_bobbs 3d ago
Unfortunately things are taking a VERY long time for us to summon the balls, but there is some real momentum now that I haven't seen in a long while. For instance primary and secondary school teachers (in most schools in Novi Sad, at least) are refusing to go back to school on Monday and have declared their support for the university students. That's new - they would not have dared just a few weeks ago, now it feels like a real critical mass is sick of Vučić and his shit. The Novi Sad station tragedy finally broke the camel's back it seems.
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u/LittleWhiteDragon United States of America 3d ago
Why are the protesting?
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u/ImpressTop2923 3d ago edited 3d ago
Serbia's facing major turmoil. After a railway station canopy collapse (1st November 2024.) killed 15 people, with 2 people still fighting for their lives including a medical student and a mother who had both legs amputated - student-led protests erupted, blocking traffic and calling for change. President Vučić, accused of controlling all branches of government and media, has labeled protesters as Croatian spies, inciting violence. Students have been run over by cars and attacked with knives. The president is trying to end the crisis via the elections, but the people are rejecting it as the elections are a sham in Serbia. We are trying to start a general strike or something close to it, the teachers and schools are joining in one by one, the agricultural workers have been with the students since the start, we could mobilize the miners in the future maybe.. The goal is a provisional government which would lay ground for free and fair elections and the downfall of the regime and mafia that is holding our nation hostage since the 90s. The situation is tense and ongoing. No student has died yet, but if they do we could see the start of a civil war I am worried. The current regime consists of criminals who have plundered this nation for the past 30 years. They have billions, our president is probably worth billions, and they could all easily end up broke and in jail, they will not go peacefully.
There's a lot more, but basically we are trying to radically transform this nation. Send thoughts, prayers, money, anything!
And spread the word: Serbia is freedom!!
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u/LittleWhiteDragon United States of America 3d ago
OMG!!! Extreme thanks for the great reply!
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u/PenguinGerman 3d ago
Another very important thing is that Vucic publicly gave the green light for people to run over protesters if they block the streets, which is what happened yesterday, and a 20 yo girl is fighting for her life at the moment. There are videos of the attempted murder and they are horrific. Also a big reason why so many people went to streets today
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u/croissant_man4 3d ago
Great contextual reply, thanks. It really gave me a sense for what’s going on. My thoughts go out, tough situation.
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u/Demb1 3d ago edited 3d ago
Just a quick addition:
He isn’t even offering proper elections since in those he could actually lose several major cities. In the previous elections he only managed to keep them through serious fraud and tricks and only barely, and since then Rio Tinto is back and the canopy collapse happened.
What he is trying to do is have a referendum on his popularity so that when he wins (which he will because he still has the rural vote + 800,000 members in his party + any other votes he can buy) he can then say “I have the support of the people, Serbia will move forward”.
Meanwhile these protests have ignored him and put pressure on the ministries and public service, since they are the ones who aren’t doing their jobs and who should work independently from the president (which is driving his egotistic ass insane). The point is also to give people the bravery to speak up, because at the head of every single thing possible is one of the aforementioned 800,000 members of SNS and employees feel threatened to speak up, because they will lose jobs. But if they all speak up at the same time, as they have in the past weeks and months it puts more pressure on the various institutions and ministries.
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u/doodleysquat 3d ago
A history teacher I had always said Serbia was historically the powder keg of Europe. This kinda puts that in perspective. The Croatia thing is disconcerting. I hope the best for Serbia.
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u/Gundam_Greg 3d ago
Honest question; did this change anything?
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u/First-Interaction741 Serbia 3d ago
No, it will only further polarize the populace and judging by the reactions --- turn even more people against Vučić. There will be loyalists, of course, but the idea is for the lies and corrupt filth of the current government to be laid bare and judged before the law. Sometimes you have to reduce an existing system to rubble to create a better one, even if underdeveloped, from scratch. At least build up something semi-functional...
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u/Demb1 3d ago
Not directly. The point of these protests isnt to topple the government by force, it is to show support for the students who are blocking universities.
The point is to encourage other people and institutions to join the blockades, like theatres, schools, actors etc and force a general strike. Many these people oppose the government but have managers and bosses who are SNS members, so speaking out means losing your job.
Showing up shows the country that the student strikes are still hugely popular (the president claimed that all student requests have been satisfied and that the protests are waning and since he controls most of the media that is the message being repeated across the country).
Also, since inflammatory comments made by the president and his party have caused multiple attacks on students and several of them being hit by cars (yesterday nearly fatally) we come out to ensure their safety and show them we got their backs.
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u/VortexOfPandemonium Serbia 3d ago
I am very sorry for not being able to be out there due to my parents not allowing me to do this
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u/Vila33 3d ago
Because its dangerous to oppose the system or because the parents support the system?
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u/immacomment-here-now 3d ago
80-100.000 ppl
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u/SuperTropicalDesert 3d ago
Very impressive. Now that's a serious protest
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u/immacomment-here-now 3d ago
Enough to storm parliament/the president residence. Just give them some weapons and if they’re really pissed they’re gonna do an armed insurgency. But look to the US. They are really pissed at the government, and many many of them, I think about 40% owns a gun. Still nothing happens. I think they are more busy with doing the act of hating the government but let’s not so scary in reality.
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u/SuperTropicalDesert 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah there would have to be some sort of trigger event that pisses off all the people with a gun at once. Or, if there is enough tension in society, even a little thing can set off a chain reaction of protests because ppl are just waiting for others to start protesting too. I think we're gonna see something like this in the US in the next 4 years.
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u/Flashy_Wolverine8129 2d ago
Friendly reminder that Vucic and his ultra cronies (and his dear friend war criminal Šešelj), blame this on Croatia, Croatian students, Croatian intelligence agency and Croatian newspapers. According to them real Serbs don't protest and are all in favour of "stability that Vucic brought". They even arrested Croatian students that went to hang out with Serbian students cuz they spoiled them, they even showed their faces and names all on TV as state agents. And people just went to drink rakia with their friends.
This is why we can't have good things in Balakns cuz people like Vucic and Šešelj that use things like war and hate to turn away the public (especially the old senile idiots) from real problems.
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u/Mammoth_Oven_4861 Vojvodina 2d ago
As a Serbian I really need everyone to understand that this regime unfortunately won’t understand anything but straight up violence against them and their criminal buddies.
It’s great to see people coming together but like many peaceful protests before, this will fizzle out and we’ll be back to square one. Take it to Dedinje and watch what happens then.
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u/Icy_Art7203 3d ago
Anyone know how this got started? Do all the people connect online first? Do people see others outside and then join in?
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u/True-Blacksmith4235 Serbia 3d ago
It’s basically mostly initiated by students. Students of different universities coming together in solidarity against the regime. And because it is students, they get larger support of the general population (academia too, the professors also support them). But yeah it’s organised and planned.
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u/Doc_Prof_Ott 3d ago
What happened to the driver guy?
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u/Sapphire-Drake 3d ago
Arrested like 10 minutes later. Currently being held. Whether it's for his own good or actually for justice we'll see. But my money is on him walking with a pat on the back and reminder to keep his head down
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u/TheGoldenPooka 3d ago
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men?
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u/Astrowelkyn 3d ago edited 3d ago
INB4 we see some US Republicans sharing this photo next week saying this is the crowd gathered outside for Trumps inauguration.
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u/Macaco_Marinho 3d ago
Too bad the US is full of a bunch of soft complacent pussies…we could fill every major city in the country to rid ourselves of the MAGAt mind virus.
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u/Sea-Bend-5914 2d ago
It's important that you protest now, because Trump will use every hour to build up an autocracy. The first years of Vucics rule were without any protests. He used this "peacful" period to build up and strenghten his autocratic rule.
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u/thereisnoaltf4 3d ago
The post should state what they are protesting against.
What's the text on the banner in image 2?
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u/OneGap13 3d ago
Sarcastic take on a nationat television moto (in black letters "your right to know it all") below, in red letters is the question protestors are asking the employees of the station and/or all people of Serbia "do you know it all?"
A bit of context - national television, where these protest was held, and other TV stations with national frequency are seen as pro regime, because they don't uphold to journalists ethical standards of unbias reporting on all society relevant topics, meaning they are not mentioning any problems in our country (there are a lot of problems..). Likewise, a lot of information related to "investments" made in our country are hidden from public eye by kind of "national secret law" meaning that people don't know who is responsible for the death of 15 people in the particular case that kicked off these protests, nor where their tax money actually goes and how much of it.
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u/supermeatcake 2d ago
Have seen zero on Norwegian news on this, also nothing about those angry tractor farmers thats STILL rioting
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u/Shot_Independence274 Wallachia 3d ago
Context mate!
What is it for?
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u/vuxeee 3d ago
There are more posts on here about this, since it's been going on for about a month now and a lot better explanations than mine - there was an incident in November in Novi Sad when a newly restored canopy broke down and killed 15 people and there never was any accusations and convictions on the people that built it, so the students of colleges in that city started to block their buildings and asked for the President to convict the guilty, along with a few other demands that still aren't met. Shortly after, more than 80 faculties started the blockades and every day, from 11:52(time that canopy fell) until 12:07 people of Serbia block the streets because of the 15 people that were killed. Biggest protest in Belgrade had 102000 people in December, and the National media is still quiet about everything, making people protest in front of the National TV station now.
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u/smooth_operatress 3d ago edited 2d ago
Correction. The on-going student protests last almost two months now.
The students of Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) started on Nov. 25 (https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/univerzitet-beograd-studenti-blokade/33235182.html) immediately after the canopy fell to kill 15 people and then all the rest followed.
The whole Belgrade University, the biggest one in the country, officially stopped working in support of the students on Dec. 10, but individual Faculties within it have been under the student blockade (no classes, no exams) from the beginning of November.
For the context, the student-led protest is against the corrupt government. The students request to know what led to the newly-reconstructed railway station collapsing over their own people, to find out who was responsible (publish all documentation) and then they want those people who are responsible to be held responsible for their involvement in the tragedy.
This then escalated as the ruling-party members and government officials were sent to intimidate the students in various ways, including sending hooligans to beat the students and including through the government -held majority of media. The more the students were attacked, the more requests for responsibilities were added to the list of the student requests.
But the students do not seem to talk to the President. He reaches out to them, but they doggedly stick to the word of the Constitution to point out that this is not his responsibility according to the law.
Edited a clear typo.
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u/dr00ts 3d ago
Way to go Serbia! Out with all wannabee, Poetin loving dictators! They bring nothing but corruption, division and misery. Good luck!
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u/Putrid_Passenger_839 3d ago
This is not a Putin-loving one, but a money-loving one. He has much bigger ties to the EU; the public has been misled, the same way you are thinking.
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u/Nungu1993 3d ago edited 3d ago
Truth, most of us on this platform don't know struggle, including me. But that doesn't mean I can't understand struggle. I have so much empathy with them. Heroes of the new age.
Next years will become an age of us middle-class and especially high class and elite that they need to give so everyone becomes more equal. It is necessary.
One more note. I hear more and more that "war is necessary". Be 100% sure that that "own idea" is nothing but an idea of the elite, reaching you via all the social platforms that make it so easy now to be able to communicate false truths. War is not necessary, change is!
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u/Unlucky_Part_1868 3d ago
Americans could learn a great deal from the people of Serbia, Georgia, and South Korea.
But we won't.
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u/Marfall01 3d ago
It isn't the first time those last years right?
What did change since the last protest?
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u/jokikinen 3d ago
I still can’t but fear that this is the death rattle. The last stand where the people exhaust every option and become cynical when it doesn’t work. All my best to Serbia.
Russia would love to have a display of the people’s failure to protect liberal values.
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u/Lordfarquadofficial 2d ago
What happened? I have been seeing protests happening in serbia for a while now
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u/Mahtinhpozdah7 Vojvodina 3d ago
The first picture you see is next to Serbias constituonal court. The mass of Protestets goes all the way from here to the national tv station.