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Jan Penfrat

@aral Wow, when I witnessed this "religious cleansing" of the streets of Belgrade after Pride a few years ago, it was _much_ smaller.

Bigots protest against Pride march in Belgrade in 2017
Bigots protest against Pride march in Belgrade in 2017
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flip1

@ilumium @aral I hope stuff like that gets taken into account when their request to join the EU is evaluated. Not the protest itself, but the fact that the president wants to postpone/cancel this event.

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flip1

@ilumium @aral And by postponing or cancelling, I guess he means cancelling.

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Fox Trenton 🎱

@flip1 @ilumium @aral
Oh, this is one of dozens if not loads of reasons not to let Serbia near the EU door.
Unless you want buddies to the right of Órban mushing up and bro cuddling with him on the inside...

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ottonafo 🇺🇦

@ilumium @aral disgusting, along with the nation's inclination towards russia. all in all a great candidate for accession, we def need more #orbanistans in this union.

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Victor Gorsky-Mochalov

@ilumium @aral
I met these religious fanatics this weekend. It looked like most of them were nazis, but I'm not sure.
Actually, other people I meet in Serbia aren't the same. They are kind and tolerant, and as I know the pride march is still going to happen in September.

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Victor Gorsky-Mochalov

@ilumium @aral
The thing that really shocked me is that I saw more people with Z mark than in Russia.

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Dušan Mitrović

@VGM @ilumium @aral Hey, it shocked me too, and then I understood that it's just an expression of spite towards the west. People here don't trust the west all that much.

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Dušan Mitrović

@aral
I know this is old, but let me, as a Serb give some context.

I for one want a tolerant Serbia, yet it's also true that religion plays a big part in the public life here. Serbs are historically orthodox and it's part of Serbian identity.

For reasons beyond my understanding, most people here believe themselves to be the victim of the west. They see #EuroPride2022 as an invasion of their "traditional" culture. While it's obviously wrong, it's not unexpected they'd do this.

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Dušan Mitrović

@aral And far from what these pictures might suggest, Serbia is deeply polarized between the mostly tolerant, pro-Western younger and the pro-Eastern and pro-Russian older population.

Unfortunately, Serbia, demographically speaking is quite old, so the picture you see in the news is, well this.

It doesn't help that the country faces deep corruption and income inequality.

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Dušan Mitrović

@aral One more thing, just crossed my mind. In the west openly bigoted people are frowned upon so they have to use euphemisms to claim plausible deniability. Here that's not the case, so everything is fair game.

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