r/europe • u/BkkGrl Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) • 16d ago

мега нит 🇷🇸✊ Serbian protests Megathread

Serbia is currently experiencing protest and clashes against the government and its police forces.

This thread is to gather all the single pieces of media, pictures and videos.

However every main event and news in the form of link will deserve its own topic.

Thanks for your collaboration

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u/Matematic4reddit 16d ago

We hope it’s clear what we aim to achieve by spreading this information: for the European Union to stop funding a criminal regime that uses that money to violently suppress its own citizens.
Here, there is no independent media, no impartial judiciary, and no fair prosecution. Gradually, we are uncovering that, beyond the police, certain military units are also involved in these illegal actions.
We are capable of standing up for ourselves, but when European officials shake hands with our dictator, praise him, and call him “a factor of peace and stability in the Balkans,” all while sending him massive amounts of money, they make our struggle far harder. Their actions fuel anger, frustration, and deep skepticism towards the EU.

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u/longsgotschlongs 16d ago

Interesting that you blame Europe and not russia. And interesting that russian support of your dictator and russian funding don't "fuel anger, frustration and deep skepticism"

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u/SodaBoj 16d ago edited 16d ago

That's because we don't expect much from Russia - they are fascist garbage.

We do expect much from the EU. You realize we are asking for sanctions against our own country?

Just as Russia, the EU has supported this rwgime for it's own benefit.

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u/LukaIvanov25 16d ago

Well, maybe we expect more from democratic eu than from the dictatorship Moscow

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u/longsgotschlongs 16d ago

Dude, that's exactly my point. I don't understand why you expect something from the EU when you openly side with Moscow.

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u/LukaIvanov25 16d ago

Who is on the side of Moscow? Some Serbs of course, in general we are not. Also that's not the reason for eu to stay silent on things happening in the past few days.

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u/longsgotschlongs 16d ago

I agree with you that the EU should not stay silent, let alone provide any funding.

What concerns siding with Moscow - I've seen plenty of pro-russian comments, actions, even demonstrations in the past years. I've seen plenty of anti-NATO sentiment, which often transforms into anti-European. I don't think I've seen a single noteable pro-EU activity though.

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u/ImarvinS Croatia 16d ago

I wish them all the best, I really really do. Get those criminals and mafia out of Serbia. And here comes the BUT. And yes I am Croatian, I get it, all that Ustaše stuff and that concert a month ago.... And we have out own politicians thugs.

BUT, 15-20 minutes ago I was watching N1 Serbia livestream and the camera was showing Kragujevac. Front row protestors, 50-ish years old was shouting/telling police cordon:
"Why are You here, why aren't you in Kosovo. That is Serbian land."
Yeah only one dude were saying it, but no one even looked at him like wtf dude.
So yeah, they wont let that go, even with new government. Hope I am wrong thou, again wish them all the best.
The rest of EU, just pay attention to this part of Europe, all of it.

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u/nickeyxxx 16d ago

If there’s one thing we know, it’s that the pro-Vučić government in Serbia is also pro-Kosovo (in the sense of claiming it as part of Serbia). That’s why protests can target them on this point: “If you’re so strong and committed to reclaiming Kosovo, why are you busy attacking your citizens instead?” It’s not meant literally, but as a jab at the police and pro-Vučić regime, pointing out the weakness and hypocrisy in their Kosovo stance.

Also, I mean this respectfully, being pro-Kosovo or anti-Kosovo is fine. People are allowed to have opinions, especially in this political climate. It’s no different than people debating whether Taiwan is part of China. One 50-year-old’s view on Kosovo shouldn’t define the whole issue, and even if 60% of Serbs are pro-Kosovo, that alone doesn’t decide anything.

In recent years, Kosovo hasn’t been Serbia’s biggest problem. Vučić has.

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u/StellarAoMing 16d ago

Simple. Let's take Knin census before the war into consideration. Then rebelion happened and we know how that ended up. I'd say census is different now. Any time before your liberation, did you consider telling your armed forces "Go to Knin" as smth normal or you were: "wtf, dude it's different country?".

My point is not comparing and questioning these 2 situations(although they are pretty much the same, albeit with different outcome), my point is you Croats don't have moral high ground or right to tell Serbs what to do. Even if they are wrong, that only makes you wrong too.

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u/sr_dayne 16d ago

Some? You guys literally bring russian flags on protests against Vučić. It's not "some".

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u/longsgotschlongs 16d ago

Here we go

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u/LeastPrivileged1 16d ago

You joking, right? You don't see the difference between hoping that the EU will stop supporting him and that Russia will?

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u/longsgotschlongs 16d ago

I see massive difference. If russia stops supporting this regime, you have a much much better chance of building a great country.

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u/DrDrWest Germany 16d ago

But the EU should really not act as if everything was fine with it. We should put pressure on them.

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u/IstEdu604 16d ago

Tell me what values Russia "stands" for and what values Europe "stands" for? One of those prides itself with always with providing freedom of speech to its citizens and democracy but somehow turns a blind eye when it fits their needs for creating a new mining colony in the middle of Europe.

Or could it be that Europe does not stand for those things it says it does? I guess its just deeply concerned.

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u/longsgotschlongs 16d ago

So why are you siding with the one that stands for worse "values"? Yet request something from the other side? Don't get me wrong, I wish you best of luck getting rid of this regime, but chances are the new one won't be any different for Europe

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