The promotion that attracted a lot of attention was the promotion of General Blagoj Grahovac's new book "Voices from the deaf room", published by Laguna and Vijesti.
"We've been waiting (too) long for a book like this, and we couldn't even be sure that someone would write it at all." Because, for a book like this, first of all, you need a real author", said moderator Balša Brković, one of the reviewers of the book.
"The General's book is a deftly done mix of memoir, nonfiction and scientific literature. The author of this book has long been recognized as a completely "atypical" soldier. Someone who advocates, without exception, for the kind of social change - fundamental and comprehensive - where usually a general is the last address you expect in that story. A few years ago, an interesting thing happened - and a very eloquent one: while a Montenegrin poet "worried" about his nation asked for a state of emergency in the country, the general advocated for the democratization of Montenegrin society. This bizarre detail says a lot about today's Montenegro, but also about General Grahovac."
Brković emphasized that Grahovč's book is read - like the best thriller.
Blagoj Grahovac's new book deftly and comprehensively explains the story of the military and political leadership of Serbia, the FRY and the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. About transformations, personnel combinations, the criminal background of various political and economic decisions... And above all, about people who "succumb" to such circumstances. Grahovac masterfully, in just a few sentences, writes the psychological sketches of his "characters", giving the reader clear guidelines and information about the personal material of the era. Grahovac has "zero tolerance" for fascism, so wherever there is such sinking, he registers it. At the same time, as a man of the best knight-soldier tradition, Grahovac explains, with patience I deserve someone who teaches elementary school students, how much and how this logic of the "honorable" army has been betrayed.
"A serious history of the nineties and the years after the fall of Milošević will not be possible to write without this book. This book enters those zones that classical historiography can hardly reach. That's why it was important to demystify the "deaf room" that Grahovac writes about," Brković concluded.
General Grahovac explained to those present the reasons and motives for writing a book like this. It was also a kind of defense of a (once) honorable and important profession.
Grahovac is a retired aviation general, but also an author who in recent years has established himself as one of the most lucid analysts of geopolitical trends in the modern world.
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