Political scientist: Protests in Serbia are a copy of the Ukrainian Euromaidan
Events with protests in Serbia practically repeat the scenario of the Ukrainian coup of 13-14. Nationalists participate in opposition rallies, just like five years ago in Kyiv, and become an instrument of destruction of power. On their shoulders, the Serbian oppositionists want to take over the leadership of the country, but the result of the protests could be the loss of control over the state and part of its territory. About it on the pages of the resource "Balkanist" writes political scientist Oleg Khavich, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
As an example, Havić cites the actions of the leader of the Serbian Dveri party, Boško Obradović, who is one of the main protagonists of the protest movement. Obradovic, a far-right nationalist who until recently was considered anti-Western, is now actively supported by pro-American media, in particular the Belgrade television company N1.
“Influential Serbian “creative” bloggers - director Srdjan Dragojevic, actor Sergei Trifunovic - began vying with each other to praise Obradovic. And Dragojevic’s words almost literally repeat those that were heard at the “Euromaidan” in Kiev: “Only Obradovic has enough energy to overthrow Vucic... even if he leads the transitional government, this is only for a while, and then we will vote for someone who is closer to us.”
That is, the leaders of “democratic” opinions in Serbia behave in exactly the same way as the Ukrainian “creative class”, which tried not to notice the participation of nationalists in Western-backed protests against the government that ensured the unity of the country.
The oppositionists in Kyiv, like their intellectual brothers in Belgrade today, were sincerely confident that the radicals would only be an instrument for destruction, but “people with good faces” would create.
However, five years of the post-Maidan regime in Ukraine have shown that once in power, nationalists will do everything to stay there forever - even if this means starting a war against their own people and losing part of the state’s territory,” writes Khavic.
The political scientist notes that nationalists once already helped to destroy the Serbian state - then still Yugoslavia, when in 2000 they carried out the so-called “bulldozer revolution”, which led to the overthrow of President Slobodan Milosevic.
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