What happened?

Does anyone wonder why we have to find out what happened in 1991? People were alive then, they had their own minds, but they have to read the time they lived in. The truth seems to travel too slowly. People live unconsciously, they have no idea what they are witnessing. As if blinded, the essence escapes them. What is the cause and what is the consequence of time? Who set off the wave, and who was drowned?

Od Tito's It took years for people to realize that he had died, or rather, that he was not immortal. There is no greater proof of the fog in which most people spend their lives, wandering around with no idea where they are or what is happening around them.

Two things are needed as evidence, a photograph as a moment, and a book as a story. Not historical, not newspaper articles, but books. After some time, a certain writer looks at everything, weaves a story out of traumas and impressions.

That's why the photography exhibition was so well attended. Goranke MatićThese are all flashes of times past, which people have either repressed or forgotten. Photography reveals them, recovers them, and warns them.

Živojin Pavlović should be read constantly. But these days it is worth reading the book "Spit Full of Blood". There is hardly a more intense title, and inside the cover is a diary account of the student protests in Belgrade in 1968. Critical, analytical and humorous, everything is there, the actors and, most importantly of all, the atmosphere!

It is repeated in Belgrade bloody sputum. Students, police, resistance and solidarity. But it will only be a few years before most people become aware of what it's really about.

Moral resistance and solidarity, without it there is nothing. It restores faith in people, it restores faith in oneself. When everyone thinks that there is nothing left, that it is the end, one or the other often appears, but resistance and solidarity rarely go together. All of this sleeps in some people, ready at some point to emerge as light.

An important witness of the times recently passed away. Whatever a man can get his hands on, he wrote Renato Baretić, whether it's a short story, a novel, or a column, it's a testimony. The eighth commissioner, what a masterfully written book. Split for beginners, a book co-written by Renato Baretić and Ivica Ivanisevic, very witty and true. Renato, like Pavlović, was excellent at describing the famous: “What happened?”