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Flags and the Serbian world

The Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs is leading the call to Serbs (wherever they are) to display the flag on their apartments. A diplomatic man, he knows how to stick his finger in the eyes of his neighbors. And his boss knows how to create tensions

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Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and might not be 100% accurate.

After all, tomorrow is a big holiday. The biggest of all and the oldest, here we welcome him for the second year. A tradition already. We will celebrate it until these people leave power, they invented it. Thanks to the wise policy and vision of him and her, the president and the prime minister, last year we got the Day of Serbian Unity, Freedom and the National Flag.

Dodik's ministers also helped a little, which is why it is celebrated in both Serbian capitals, Belgrade and Banja Luka, not to mention in both Serbian states. However, it is also a holiday intended for Serbs who are not in Serbia, nor in the Republika Srpska. A moment to celebrate Serbian houses.

Radicals used to formulate it differently – the Karlovac, Karlobag, Virovitica line. The radical mind remained in the minds of the progressives, they kept that gift for marking and counting. Only now they go a little softer. There are no (?) territorial claims, but the game called inducing Serbianness continues. The Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs is leading the call to Serbs (wherever they are) to display the flag on their apartments. A diplomatic man, he knows how to stick his finger in the eyes of his neighbors. And his boss knows how to create tensions. Just so that in Podgorica, Sarajevo, Zagreb and Pristina they think that Belgrade is not their friend.

Says the minister, "the main goal in trying to establish this beautiful holiday is to motivate all our citizens, wherever they live, that is, Serbs from all over the world, to display our tricolor on that day. Tricolor" is one of the symbols of Serbs, regardless of whether they live in Sombor, Banja Luka, Herceg Novi, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kumanovo or Trebinje.

Something seems to me that this call will not be well received in the environment, by the local authorities and the majority population. Just remember what the regime media in Belgrade write about the hanging of the Albanian flag across Serbia every November 29. Well, maybe Orban and the Hungarians will look favorably on the invitations from Belgrade because they also mark Hungarian territory. Now they are not alone in that drawing, and everything is OK until the appetites overlap somewhere, and then save yourself who can.

In the future, we will be divided into Serbs who hang tricolors and those who don't. It is certainly not a problem to hang out in Topola, Mrčajevci, Paraćin... not even Trebinje. But I don't see why it is important for the Serbs, for example, in the aforementioned Kumanovo to display the flag on their houses. What do they gain by that, Mr. Minister will praise them, come on please.

What if one of the few Serbs in Tetovo gets the idea to hang a tricolor. Could something unpleasant happen to him? The mood and environment in Kumanovo and Tetovo are not the same.

It will not be a surprise if Selaković's "nice holiday" and the tricolor on the window bring problems to some Serb in Croatia... maybe in Sarajevo, Nikšić... Will the minister and Serbia compensate them for the repair of the broken window and other damage. Or will the "patriots" in Belgrade just lament the fate of the Serbs in the region.

The flags on the windows are a continuation of Vulin's (and Vučić's) story about the "Serbian world". If this were not the Balkans and if the fight for territories, for language, for identity had not yet ended... the call to highlight the tricolor would not be problematic.

However, in these areas, Christianization is more desirable than tolerance and coexistence. The call to display the flag is only a path to further intolerance. No matter who hangs them. Even the progressives know it, that's why they "animate" Serbia, from their mansions and limousines with rotations. I hope the majority will not listen to them.

The flags on the windows are a continuation of Vulin's (and Vučić's) story about the "Serbian world". If this were not the Balkans and if the fight for territories, for language, for identity had not yet ended... the call to highlight the tricolor would not be problematic.

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