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2/ But don't start celebrating just yet. This is what Serbia is - a house of dying lies and a republic of desolate minds. The media, both foreign and domestic, when they reported on Serbia, focused on issues like corruption and crime, but it is much worse than you think. ⬇️

Dejan Pantic@serbianism.com

🧵The "brighter future" with the Student movement in Serbia is the same as the "brighter future" with Vučić's party - Student Ticket responded to Vučić: We will not impose sanctions on Russia. And here's another thread on why it doesn't matter. ⬇️

3/ I would get asked from time to time if I grew up under Milošević. I did, I would answer. It only occurred to me recently that what the inquiring minds wanted to know was, "Were you traumatized by it?" No. Sure, it wasn't much fun living through the 1990s, all I remember was destitution and...⬇️

4/...illnesses, my own. Much to my horror, my ever-so-clever compatriots almost immediately wanted Milošević's government back once he was ousted. They got it back, reshuffled, in 2012, by voting for it, after more than a decade of Serbian society dragging its...⬇️

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5/...Overton window to the right and authoritarian, always reaching for the imaginary lost Greatness. When Milošević's government was ousted on October 5th 2000, I was very happy. Elated. Now, I'm just exhausted by another decade spent in illnesses.