Well Joe... I don't even know where to start from... But first I'm really pissed and I will explain personal reasons (among others) later.
I don't even want to comment on our 100 % government controlled media which report on story with so much lying, with so much cherry picking that I'm really disgusted. (they did that years in past, but this is next level).
I started couple of serious arguments with my friends, with people from my village even with my parents because they are so brainwashed with mainstream media here! Most of them believe every BS they see on TV and if you have even 2 g of brain, at least you have to admit that our "beloved" president are shiting all over as.
We have history of dictators and we are almost used to them. But thing with this one (Vučić) is that he is playing like we have democracy and everything is fine when instead of that we only get so blunt lies! It was not this way when he came into power, but as time went on he was taking more and more power and lied more and more.
As you can check we had parliamentary elections on June 21 (that should have been on 26 April). Vučić of course won and even if elections were not fair and democratic and there were many other problems, that is not the biggest issue... As our government want to present all over the world! Problem is irresponsible, self serving and disgusting behavior of our government and Vučić!
If you look curve of active COVID-19 cases for Serbia you would notice a sudden drop around 7. June. Drop from 5000 to only 200 cases in 2 days! So they announced victory over COVID!
Everything is fine, normal, people don't give a F about an masseurs. And why should they? Everyone on TV telling them everything is fine.
In meantime countries start with opening borders, but they hasting to let Serbian citizens... People here are pissed! "Why they all hate us when we almost have no cases?" Turned out we are hot place, and everyone know that except us.
Have in mind that we had one of most rigorous measure in region (probably even world) and we have even worse results than some countries in region with more relaxed measures.
And then, our beloved president came out of blue, on TV and said that we would again have total lockdown from friday to monday and also any public gathering is forbidden. People, of course get pissed and hit the streets. Majority just to express their dissatisfaction with behavior of ruling party.
Anyway, pictures sent through the world are thorse of not more than 100- 200 hooligans, who are probably paid with some extremist organisation or some of them even by Vučić's men just to make protestors look bad!
If you look that video of " Storming Parliament" You can see how they nonchalantly enter and exit even easier. Compare that with 2000 5. October when things were for real.
And don't know Joe . but I know that I really had enough. I don't have will and power for revolution (we tried). I just want to leave the country.
We would see how this will developed, but I don't expect anything good.