If it weren't for so much death all around us, for this plague that has befallen us, we would have some comforting words. Let's say, some families only got together in quarantine; some parents got to know their children a little better; some housewives cleaned the dust from some places in the apartment for the first time; the thieves lay low; there is no reckoning between "skalers" and "barbers"; some talked after decades of strife, etc.
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Čedo Ratković (84), former president of the municipality of Bar, tells me:
"This corona saved many lives."
"You mean, carried away?"
"No, but saved. I know it seems paradoxical, but imagine how many lives would have been lost in the world in the past months, mostly young lives, in traffic and other accidents."
I almost answered: "The living truth", but somehow I don't use that phrase.
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Corona dragged the on-duty stokers of nationalist fires into a mouse hole. They instinctively feel that this is not their time. Because human kindness and solidarity flared up and came to the fore. Even in the so-called yellow press.
That's why the graffiti in front of the Youth Center in Belgrade, after the earthquake in Zagreb, on which "Zagreb" is written in large letters and a red heart drawn next to it, was met with approval from all sides.
"Belgrade loves Zagreb and we will always be grateful for that" - announced the Croatian portal "dnevnik.hr".
After great suffering: wars, epidemics, natural disasters, nothing was the same in the world. After corona, the world will be a better place to live (not materially, but spiritually, of course), at least for a few years, until the mice start coming out of their holes...
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Bora Stanković died at the age of 95. He was the most famous Yugoslav and Serb in the world of sports until the appearance of Novak Djokovic. As secretary general of FIBA, he led world basketball for 26 years, from 1976 to 2002.
The great Bora did not deserve to die under these circumstances.
Another great Yugoslav basketball player, Mirko Novosel, said from Zagreb that Bora Stanković was "absolutely the greatest personality of Yugoslav basketball" and that he regrets very much that he will not be able to come to Belgrade for the funeral.
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If I wasn't bald I would look like Karl Marx, I'm so bearded and hairy. Like this, I look like a ghost from my childhood.
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"Gloomy few days. Now it's good to have a friend, simple, cheerful, cheerful, healing. To teach us what is important and what is unimportant in life. To slap us on the shoulder and get well from that blow." Who said this, for God's sake?
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