BELGRADE, JULY 2020 (photos by @/bratvinski on IG)
This is a very serious situation, please extend your passion towards the protests in the US to the people of Serbia as well.
If you were to google the situation going on there right now, you’d find most international news sources claiming that these protests are over the new lockdown measures. This is not true. Other people have recapped this better than I will, but essentially these protests are against the current government and it’s been a long time coming. The citizens of Serbia were lied to regarding the covid19 situation (the number of infected and death toll was fabricated and the government lied about the healthcare system’s capacity to cope with the pandemic), and the president (dictator) abandoned the quarantine in order to manipulate and rig the elections last month in his favor. All of this was the final straw for the years of oppression the people of Serbia have been facing under the government’s rule. Spontaneous peaceful protests started happening a few days ago as a result and they have been met with police brutality.
What I’m asking is that you please take what the Serbian people are saying seriously and spread the ACCURATE information around. The president has had the country in a tight chokehold for years. It is vital that this does NOT lose momentum.
Comparison of post office building in Savska street near Belgrade railway station during Kingdom of Yugoslavia vs how it looks today thanks to Communists. It was built by architect Momir Korunović in Serbo-Byzantine style and destroyed by US bombing on Easter of 1944 also known as “Bloody Easter”.
7th-9th century earrings form Serbia (found near Veliko Gradiste and Macvanska Mitrovica). They were most likely ordered and made in famous Byzantine gold centers.
Serbia has a very rich medieval history, but its people need help in the present day.
If you want to help out at least reblog this, if you are unable to donate. We had a very low media coverage. The damage is incalculable and we will feel the effects of this for years to come. Spreading the word is essential.
Rio Tinto is planning to create a massive lithium mine in the beautiful Jadar Valley in my family’s homeland Serbia. This filthy company has bombed indigenous sacred sites, violated human rights and destroyed many vulnerable peoples home and the environment.
They plan to turn this:
Into this:
And this:
Oh and also this:
The Serbians are protesting and doing their best to counter this fucking crime against humanity and nature. The small communities and farmers will lose their ancestral land, their livelihoods and their home. This is an act of great evil. Please please please sign this. It has over 100,000 signatures already. Please help.
Fists of rebellion, fists of revolution, fists of freedom. The monument Three Fists in Bubanj Memorial Park by sculptor Ivan Sabolić was unveiled in 1963 to commemorate the people victims of mass execution perpetrated by Nazis during WW2 and the fallen partisans: “we were shot, but never killed”, says the inscription in the frieze. Niš, Serbia 2017
