But is that possible? That Croatian television, that hemorrhoid of the nationalist government, is broadcasting the film spectacle Battle on the Neretva, to Tito's partisans who are defeating the overwhelming fascists? The film, which has never been shown since the fall of Yugoslavia, appeared to the Croats as an explosive contribution to anti-fascism, which has not lived here for a long time, even with Tito at the head of the offensive. Um, yes, it is that, we understood, classic Croatian petty-bourgeois politeness, because the film was actually screened on the occasion of the death of its director, Veljko Bulajić. Otherwise, he would have remained where he was all these years, in the bunker of anti-fascist "trash". And then Tito's legendary message from the movie - The window must fall! - she continued these days: The House of Flowers must fall!, since the interim mayor of Belgrade decided - if he wins the elections - to immediately throw Broz out of his mausoleum, because Tito was "the great villain of Serbian history", that it is inadmissible for him to rest on the elite Dedinje, despite "all the evil he inflicted on the Serbian people, killing them in the First World War, and then over 35 years suppressing his seed in every possible way, nationally, politically, sociologically, culturally".
That Šapić also has a proposal for the new residents of the House of Flowers, after the current tenant has been evicted, so that they would move in the bones of "those who really defended us - Stepa Stepanović, Živojin Mišić...", and there is of course the Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović "who defended Serbia in the Balkan Wars, in the First World War, and in the Second..." And even if it is just the pre-election madness of Šapić, it should not be surprising that the eviction of Tito is carried out, considering the pronounced tendency of the local people to morbid necrophilia; one only has to remember the secondary and tertiary graves in which, in order to hide their crimes, Serbian criminals moved their victims for years: Bosnian, Albanian and Croatian nationalities. And it's not that the Croatian war criminals were lagging behind them, which is why the search for the bones of so many killed in the wars of the 90s continues to this day.
Well, Šapić made fun of the old idea about the exorcism of the Marshal - back in 91, we remember, the war criminal Vojislav Šešelj, otherwise a favorite Serbian hero, staged a performance in the House of Flowers, all while stabbing Tito's grave with a hawthorn stake. But, fortunately, Tito, if they take away his current residence and a major tourist attraction for Belgrade, will not remain in the dustbin of history. No, immediately after Šapić's announcement, the mayors of Sarajevo and Cetinje contacted each other and offered to take over Marshal's bones, and the mayor of Kumrovec, Tito's birthplace - to which Šapić decided to send the bones - responded promptly, saying that they did so so that Tito would return to Kumrovec , because "it would mean a lot for tourism in our municipality".
Kumrovec is visited annually by more than 160 thousand tourists, he says, and if Tito's remains were returned, they could reach a million tourists a year, so "we don't look at it through ideology, but through the commercialization of the whole story." The clever Zagorac from Kumrovec, not far from Zagreb, saw that "the return of the marshal's spirit would stimulate the development of tourism and the economy, and in that case they would also think about the Tito memorial center that they would build next to the villa Kumrovec".
Oh, my Šapić, are you stupid, you don't think commercially, despite the huge number of tourists who make a pilgrimage to the House of Flowers, and buy souvenirs, mugs and T-shirts with Tito's image there. And then in a kind of auction - after the mayor of Belgrade offered Tito's bones to Kumrovac as a gift, and after the hosts' offer from Sarajevo and Cetinje to take proper care of the evicted Marshal - the first man from Jajce, who he considers as the "chief of Jajce, a medieval Bosnian town, the last the capital of Bosnia, which keeps the royal bones, but also the ground zero of anti-fascism in these areas, as evidenced by the Museum of the second session of the AVNOJ, which is carefully maintained by the municipality of Jajce, that the remains of Josip Broz are right next to the said Museum". Then satirically, as only befits this topic, he goes further in his offer, saying that together with Tito, all property from the period of socialism and Tito's rule should be moved to Jajce, and that, in addition to various summer houses and other infrastructure, includes Tito's property from the Serbian treasury.
And Mr. Hozan does not stop there, but requests that all museums related to Tito and Yugoslavia from the period of NOR and socialism be transferred from Belgrade to Jajce, and he did not forget "the importance of including Tito's wife, Jovanka Broz", emphasizing " the need to take the female part into account, in order to preserve balance and dignity". He "harshly" reproaches the head of the Sarajevo Canton that "being blinded by ideology, he completely ignored the economic aspect of the possible migration of Tito's remains and the issue of the female quota", that is, to request the remains of Tito's wife, Jovanka Broz, so that "as it should be, the male lies next to the female ". That's how Hozan from Jajce humorously concluded a new discussion about "humane resettlement" and the marketing of Tito, while poor Šapić laments in Belgrade that "we buried Milošević like a canary". But whose afterlife, ominous nationalist chant still rings dangerously loud in Serbia, just like that of his friend Tuđman in Croatia.
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