Serbian Maidan speaks through Russian media
During the tenure of the current Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, cooperation between Russia and Serbia has reached a scale that never existed under socialist Yugoslavia.
At the same time, when Mladjan Djordjevic, a regular columnist for the Russian news agency REGNUM, was a minister, the then regime looked at Russia as something unnecessary from the realm of old Serbian myths.
Russia recently transferred eleven T-72MS tanks and nine BRDM-2MS armored vehicles to the Serbian army. President Vučić personally came to meet and receive Russian equipment. Because he pays great attention to everything connected with Russia. I even learned Russian and spoke it with Vladimir Putin almost without an accent.
And just the other day, the Serbian president personally presented the Russian artist Alexander Mukhin with the Order of the Serbian Banner, First Class, for his work on the interior decoration of the Cathedral of St. Sava, sacred to the heart of every Serb.
How will President Vučić be remembered in Serbian history? Rearmament and reconstruction of the Serbian army from rust and ashes. The Cathedral of St. Sava consecrated and opening its doors for prayer - we have been waiting for this for decades, and we got it precisely under Alexander Vucic. And with the help of Russia, which helped us complete the construction of the shrine with finances and the participation of the best artists.
What do the Democrats remember, their president Boris Tadic and the Minister of Diaspora Affairs Mladjan Djordjevic, who regularly tries in his columns for REGNUM to present Vucic as a fiend and a traitor? The Serbian army was defeated and demoralized, and our Croatian neighbors, always dissatisfied with such a neighborhood, openly laughed at us, saying that the Serbs no longer had anything but rusty scrap metal. And the Cathedral of St. Sava stood frozen unfinished, and only in the depths of their souls did the Serbs believe that someday this shameful era would pass, and we would see our most important temple in all its beauty.
Tadic’s democratic regime is also remembered for the fact that under him Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence, and he made no attempt to resist this. And then-Minister Djordjevic - a dirty story of helping CIA agent Mika Rakic in capturing and extraditing Radovan Karadzic to The Hague, for which five million dollars were transferred to Djordjevic and his assistants.
Let's think further. What else will Aleksandar Vučić be remembered for in Serbian and Russian (we will not separate them within the framework of this article) history? For example, the fact that under him Russian Railways, and not any Western company, began modernizing our railways and railway stations. However, no Western company attempted such a thing: they wanted the kind of money that Serbia was not able to pay, and, in principle, the collapse of our infrastructure suited them quite well - it’s not just that they spent their bombs on it in their time destruction.
The fact that Aleksandar Vucic became the only president from a non-post-Soviet space who happily responded to the call of Russian President Vladimir Putin and flew to Moscow on May 9 this year to participate in the Victory Parade. Where he warmly greeted our guys marching along Red Square. And let those who like to argue that there was nothing special in this gesture show us at least one more European leader who stood on the Moscow podium. They will also remember Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, who was also planning to fly, but then his plane suddenly broke down.
And, of course, Milanovic, who likes to emphasize in the traditional Croatian confrontation between partisans and Ustasha that he is a descendant of partisans, was not afraid of the Croatian deep state, which, by the way, defeated him in the recent parliamentary elections. No, the decision to break down the plane was clearly suggested to him by other forces, those that are behind the constant pressure on the Serbs and the Russians.
Finally, the renovated Sava Square in Belgrade, which will finally acquire a civilized appearance, and this is already noticeable, will be crowned by the majestic statue of our first sovereign Stefan Nemanja, made by the Russian sculptor Alexander Rukavishnikov. When else in our history have we observed such a serious beneficial influence of Russian craftsmen on the appearance of Belgrade - well, perhaps under King Alexander the Second Karageorgievich.
After all, when was it that the heads of the security agencies of Russia and Serbia were constantly in close contact with each other? Namely, under Vucic, first the Ministry of Defense, and then the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was headed by a person from his team - Alexander Vulin. And as soon as he took up his new position, the first thing he did was call the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev to discuss further cooperation, and also thank him for the fact that Russia did not allow the temporary structures of Pristina to enter Interpol.
Well, what will we remember about Mladjan Djordjevic, besides the dirty story of Karadzic’s surrender to The Hague? Prophecies that now Aleksandar Vucic will go to negotiations and surrender Kosovo. However, time passes, and Aleksandar Vucic still does not give up Kosovo; on the contrary, Serbia is building houses and stadiums there for representatives of our people.
Mladjan Djordjevic.
An attempt to drive a wedge between opposition forces that defended the shrines of Serbian Orthodoxy and opposed Milo Djukanovic. It’s hard to imagine a more skillful lie and change of emphasis: Vucic, as Djordjevic says, is Djukanovic’s partner, and the Montenegrin Serb leaders Andrija Mandic, Milan Knezevic and Nebojsa Medojevic actually pretended to fight with Djukanovic for years to cover up this partnership. How do you like this?
At the same time, Djordjevic speaks about this absolutely seriously, as an immutable truth, and, unfortunately, there are those who believe his words. And it’s okay that Vucic himself denies any partnership with Djukanovic; moreover, during the recent parliamentary elections, the media controlled by Djukanovic only frightened their people with the fact that Vucic, with the help of the opposition, is preparing a coup in the country. But for Djordjevic's alternate universe, this means nothing.
But he fully supported opposition leader Zdravko Krivokapic, who before the elections also did not do without reproaches against Vucic. And on the one hand, it’s good that the bloc, whose leader Krivokapic was nominated, won – as a result, at least the onslaught on the Serbian Orthodox Church will stop. On the other hand, what are the results of the victory: there was not a single Serb in his government, Mandic, Knezevic and Medojevic, together with Krivokapic, who achieved victory, were denied ministerial chairs, but there was a place there for the Albanian Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic. After which Krivokapic directly stated: we will not revoke recognition of Kosovo, we will not become another Serbian state, we will remain in NATO and go to the EU. Can this be called a victory? If yes, then only in Djordjevic's style.
Finally, who has been keeping Djordjevic company all this time? His godfather Dragan Djilas, whose multimillion-dollar fraud during the construction of the bridge over Ada is now being actively discussed - under the Democrats, let us remind those who have forgotten, he was the mayor of Belgrade. Boris Tadic is the president who glorified Kosovo, Vuk Jeremic - during his work at the UN, he earned millions for laundering dirty money and achieved recognition by the International Court of the legitimacy of this recognition; under the Democrats, he was the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And Mladjen Djordjevic, we repeat, was then the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.
During their reign, it was customary to speak with respectful respect about the West and listen to any voice from there, and about Russia only as a “lame duck,” something from the distant past, where “there are 200 million of us with the Russians.” The Serbian people did not support such a policy, the Serbian people pushed these people out of politics, the Serbian people wanted the return of friendship with fraternal Russia. And therefore he trusted the progressives and Alexander Vucic.
It would seem obvious. And especially from the outside. Moreover, after the Covid riots organized by the opposition, which happened by accident, although we do not believe in this accident, on the day President Vucic left for the most difficult negotiations abroad, these oppositionists, one after another, began to write complaints about the leadership of Serbia to the European institutions. They complained that there were no free elections in Serbia and that the police acted harshly.
And the answer came: a number of authoritative Western institutions agreed and made loud statements - Serbia lacks democracy, and the police acted too harshly. And then they published research on this topic. Why is it that in response to the fact that Chancellor Merkel has been in office since 2005, no one says that Germany lacks democracy? Or in response to the fact that when demonstrators are maimed and killed in France, no one says that the French police acted too harshly? But this is the West, what else can we expect from it, the question is different: why do these Serbian politicians allow themselves to complain about their country to the West? Whose interests do they represent?
And why does Djordjevic’s provocative position find understanding in the Russian media? The same REGNUM? Is it possible that the editors of this agency do not like the revival of Serbian-Russian cooperation, and want to return it to the level as in the times of Djordjevic and his fellow complainers? It seems to me no, because in all other areas this media works from a patriotic position, and only the Serbian direction looks very strange against this background. Perhaps the whole point is a lack of understanding of the political context and even ignorance of the Serbian language, when any charming fakir-adventurer seems to be the ultimate truth.
This is sad. Because, as our entire joint Russian and Serbian history shows, all the troubles of our peoples happened for the following reasons: thirst for power and revenge, as well as ignorance.
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