The climax came when police arrived and faced an absurd choice: arrest innocent civilians for hitting a barrel or confiscate the barrel itself. They chose the latter, creating an unforgettable image of two officers hauling away the battered container. Photos of the incident made opposition newspaper covers, making the feared police look “like a bunch of comically inept dweebs,” according to Popovic.
I am pretty sure that this was a calculated response rather than a sign of incompetence. The FRY surely could have dispatched more officers if it wanted to, but the Yugoslav police clearly had bigger worries on their hands than a crowd of people taking their anger out on an image of the President.
This creative protest helped launch Otpor, the nonviolent movement that eventually brought down Milosevic’s regime.
I am unconvinced that Milošević was autocratic, but even if he were, it is a massive exaggeration to claim that it was a nonviolent movement that ended his career.
Likewise, humour is merely a means for us to relieve pressure, not overthrow a régime:
Political jokes were not a form of resistance. They were a release valve for pent-up popular anger. People told jokes in their neighborhood bars or on the street because they coveted a moment of liberation in which they could let off a bit of steam. That was in the interests of the [Fascist] leadership, no matter how humorlessly they may have portrayed themselves in the public sphere.
Many Germans were conscious of the dark side of the [Third Reich]. They were also annoyed at laws forcing them to do this or that and at party bigwigs who treated themselves to lives of luxury while making arbitrary decisions about the lives of others. But that didn’t translate into anti[fascist] protests. Those people who let off a bit of steam with a few jokes didn’t take to the streets or otherwise challenge the [Fascist] leadership.
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I am assuming that you are sharing this piece in good faith, so I am not going to chastise you. But all that this article is really doing is selling people a fantasy. Plenty of people have been taking their anger out on images of Donald Trump since the 2010s, and it was nowhere close to the beginning of the end for his career.
What this article talks about are typical color revolution tactics. We’ve seen them over and over again, the exact same playbook in at least half a dozen countries by now, from Serbia to Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine.
This article is literally glorifying a US orchestrated color revolution/regime change. The CIA front NED admitted to being behind it:
American assistance to Otpor and the 18 parties that ultimately ousted Milosevic is still a highly sensitive subject. But Paul B. McCarthy, an official with the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, is ready to divulge some details…
…McCarthy says, ‘‘from August 1999 the dollars started to flow to Otpor pretty significantly.’’ Of the almost $3 million spent by his group in Serbia since September 1998, he says, ‘‘Otpor was certainly the largest recipient.’’ The money went into Otpor accounts outside Serbia. At the same time, McCarthy held a series of meetings with the movement’s leaders in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, and in Szeged and Budapest in Hungary. Homen, at 28 one of Otpor’s senior members, was one of McCarthy’s interlocutors. ‘‘We had a lot of financial help from Western nongovernmental organizations,’’ Homen says. ‘‘And also some Western governmental organizations.’’
This comes straight from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/magazine/who-really-brought-down-milosevic.html
“Radio Free Europe” gloated about it and celebrated it: https://archive.is/rAuXE
Here a couple of articles explaining the color revolution methods they used: https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-backed-color-revolutions/5611641
The Yugoslav wars and the breakup of Yugoslavia were all part of a NATO-EU orchestrated plot: https://www.sott.net/article/292941-Truth-and-lies-about-the-break-up-of-Yugoslavia-Forget-Milosevic-this-was-a-US-operation-from-start-to-finish
Also, Milosevic was innocent of the crimes the US’s kangaroo court accused him of: https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/01/the-exoneration-of-milosevic-the-ictys-surprise-ruling/
Brb composing my nuclear drumpf small hands tweet to overthrow the Trump regime
