The famous ninth of march, when the history made a turn. The people were seriously pissed off at RTS being turned into a factory of hatred, for having become a warmongering medium, lying at large about all the previous protests. This was the day when Vuk Drašković made his famous speech from the terrace of the theatre on the Square, including the famous „All! All! All!“, a water cannon was used, even one girl got killed, and Bora The Louse (Jović), guess then the president of the presidency, ordered deployment of tanks to the streets of Belgrade.
Incredibly, still unclear on how was it possible and via which channel, there was a live feed. Don't know where the girls were, it's a saturday, could have been outside, playing, or at Oma's, so we two sat alone and watching it live and were flattened by astonishment. We already stopped watching the RTS itself, „it makes me hate and I don't want to“. I don't remember how long the feed stayed on, we saw only parts of the event, they had just two cameras altogether, in the afternoon. Closer to evening, nothing.
In sezam's archives I'm not finding much - what's online is very sparse and scattered and specially this month is practically zilch about. Among the parts I gathered, there's only one joke the next day, „will barter a šapka for šajkača, codename Republic Square“ [šapka is the police's cap, šajkača is the typical inner Serbia's peasant/soldier cap, qv.] and nothing else. The problem with these years is that nobody could accumulate an archive of any respectable size, because the disks were expensive and small, we always ran out of space. Even the offline reader had an option to mark a message as discardable, and when the space gets tight, you could tell it to shrink the database, keep only untagged messages. I probably deleted more than two thirds, who'll ever know how many. The nineties are a sinkhole.
25-IV-2026 - 25-IV-2026