YU Merry-Go-Round

SINISA KOVACEVIC, a Belgrade playwright, in his interview to the DUGA magazine said: "It's high time for us to tear down this myth of "celestial Serbia"! It's high time for us to turn to hedonism - the necessity of loving beautiful women, sleeping with handsome men, having our children wear expensive clothes, travel, have good teeth, speak foreign languages, us driving good cars, sleeping in comfortable hotels. And the celestial Serbia can be deserved by other means... Not by having my kid grow up hearing me say: "Sweetheart, you live in celestial Serbia!" We are a celestial people, but we have to eat good beans and bacon. Now, I want to get laid. Today, while I am still handsome, for tomorrow already I'll be less handsome."

 BATRIC JOVANOVIC, a Socialist Party of Serbia MP, famous for his bizarre proposals (such as The Law on the Removal of Bars for Beating Carpets), recently filed a request to the Serbian Ministry of Information, demanding that Minister Pavlovic "ensures that elementary etiquette be observed on Belgrade TV, so that guests always sit on the right side, and not on the left, and to ensure that journalists who mispronounce and have scandalous accents stop torturing the viewers and let the announcers read their texts".

 MIRKO KOVAC, a Belgrade writer (presently living in Rovinj, Istria) told the SRPSKA REC magazine the following: "I knew that the Orthodox Church would play the already evident role: under the veil of saving the Serbianhood, it is saving the current regime. I left because I was disgusted by the amount of senselessness present amongst the Serbian people. I was watching, with loathing and sadness, a nation fooling itself, revelling in self-delusion, in getting duller and duller before the world's eyes. And the people cannot be blamed much, for the national intellectuals are deluding them and filling their heads with nonsense, such as that Serbs are the "God-chosen people", or the "celestial people", or that God will save them. You first have to believe in God in order to correlate with him. You must first demonstrate a high degree of tolerance to become one of the "celestial people", and not pillage Konavli (the Dubrovnik hinterland)."

 CAPTAIN DRAGAN, a professional soldier (famous for his activities with the Serbian militiamen in Knin - the "Kninjas") and Mother Theresa for the wounded (currently runs a charity fund) spoke to the VRENJE student magazine about the role of women in the "Kninjas" and his charity fund: "If they left the Captain Dragan Fund, everything would go down the drain, for women make up 90% of the Fund. There were no girls in the "Kninjas", primarily because it would have increased the operation costs - i.e. providing adequate conditions for sexual separation. The women, however, maintained the rear. (...) In any case, women are necessary because they are firm, are not easily hurt and have no ego problems.

Concerning the male/female chores, Captain Dragan said: "I think that neither is a woman able to iron a man's shirt, nor is a man able to affirm himself unless they know how to take care of themselves. For example, I like to wash dishes."

 A Step Back in Time

Professor NIKOLA KOLJEVIC, gave an interview to NIN magazine on November 16, 1990. His interviewer was Mr. Milorad Vucelic. Both have traveled quite a long road since then: Mr. Koljevic became the Serbian Democratic Party's representative in the B&H Presidency, which he subsequently left when the national parties coalition broke up; Mr. Vucelic has ultimately become the new Arch-priest of the Serbian Electronic Church (See NDA Bulletin No. 33) - i.e. the Director of the Serbian TV.

Anyhow, Mr. Koljevic had said the following: "If the national parties win the elections in B&H, the basic preconditions for democracy will be established. (...) The national parties have emerged quite naturally, and the natural way of social organizing is a conditio sine qua non for democracy. In that case, the B&H inter-ethnic compromise could become an attractive model for a natural and authentic agreement amongst the Yugoslav peoples, instead of the [present day] shoot-outs from republican (feudal) fortresses."

The prophecy was made before the 1990 elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina.