Pinky Saw Titus – Personal Attitudes

No one could have dreamed that both Serbia and, according to them, the state of Kosovo, would be asked to move their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem, and Israel, which is not a party to the negotiations at all, to recognize Kosovo. (as an independent state), which has so far refused. This provoked a fierce disagreement from the entire Arab world, with which we traditionally have good relations, but also from the European Union, and is not in line with the previous UN resolution.

I don’t know if anyone saw the original work with the signatures, or just a copy, but one gets the impression, as always, that the English text is interpreted differently and that each side claims a “great” victory. History tells us that the great powers, in this case the United States, have always been the ones who have benefited the most from such agreements, always to the detriment of the small ones, in this case Serbia and Kosovo. Now it seems to be the same. Sometimes a comma (comma) in the text can be important. Therefore, there must be high-level experts in the negotiating team in many areas, including English, which I believe was not the case here.

Regarding the so-called Great Powers, I would say more about this. I am well aware of the circumstances in the UK as I often travel there for family reasons. I have never liked the policy of that country towards us, nor do I want to defend it, but I must say that on a personal level, I have never experienced anything bad, especially not in contact with the common people there.

Double standards in the politics of Great Britain, but also of other great powers, about which we constantly complain, has always existed and will exist. Some apply to big countries and world powers when communicating with each other, and others to small countries like us.

We have to understand and understand that as soon as possible, because in the conflict of interests of the great, the small always suffer. And in the end, the big ones always settle in, to the detriment of the little ones.

That is why it is not out of place to look a little in your own garden, and the latest text by the great Serbian historian, lawyer, politician and writer, Slobodan Jovanović, is the best proof of this.

One gets the impression, as always, that the English text is interpreted differently and that each side attributes a “great” victory to itself. History tells us that the great powers, in this case the United States, have always benefited more from such agreements, always to the detriment of the small ones, in this case Serbia and Kosovo.

Now it seems to be the same. Sometimes a comma (comma) in the text can be important. He wrote it a year and a half before his death in Britain in 1957, where he spent 17 years in exile. To the undisputed national corifeo, for whose works we were all impoverished in primary and academic education, knowing almost nothing about them until they were published in the nineties (works collected in 17 volumes).

This text entitled “A contribution to the study of the Serbian national character” was published in Canada in 1964 and in our country in 2005.

Communist law professors copied entire pages of Slobodan Jovanovic, and anti-Communists shun his latest “testament” because they don’t like criticism of both Serbian dynasties and, to their surprise, praise, say, the educational system of the socialist era, which is the foundation of society. , but also many other good things of that time, in which he was not present.

Today, everyone agrees that he is the best connoisseur of the political situation of the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Serbia. It is difficult to summarize in the mentioned text, which must be read carefully. But therein lies the key to most of our problems, including a lack of understanding of great power politics.

Ultimately, the main characteristics of our “Dinaric” man are self-esteem, emphasis on himself, personal and collective heroism, which are never proportional to the energy expended and the sacrifices made.

Always a looting economy, especially in the first half of the 20th century, which is driven by national energy. Too much history being made as needed, matched, forged, and civilization remains an unattainable category, even though we are constantly in the winners column. According to S. Jovanović, our man interprets all his failures, even those for which we are to blame, as a global injustice and indeed it is almost a century of lonely Serbian stubbornness and a waste of time of enthusiasm for nationalism Serbian and the political elite of primitive semi-intellectuals. , which in mutual disputes constantly destroyed solid institutions and built the state and society, without success.

At the time of the restoration of the state, in the 19th century, the Serbs had no backward pattern of their medieval state. In the modern era of colonial and industrial empires, they arose in lower-level organizations: tribal and rural. The response to that challenge was a step backward. They did not realize that the colonial conquests of the great, in addition to the plundering of resources, also brought progress, technology and the introduction of order in small and backward nations.

In particular, as antipodes, Slobodan Jovanović speaks of the Serbs, Njegoš and Dositej Obradović. He does not dispute the great poetic talent of Bishop Radu, but with him, he says, there is no resurrection of the people without heroism and death, all those who will fall and die more gloriously compete. So, he does not question the greatness of the poetic genius, but the political concept of the message that the work transmits.

However, he notes that in Njegoš’s will, out of the 5 points, four speak of the money he left in the banks of Vienna and Petrograd, as Isidora Sekulić attests. Unlike him, a Serbian from Vojvodina, Dositej is an enlightened European, who never holds a funeral in Kosovo, but asks for the light of reason and Tesla’s ether is connected with electric waves.

He founded schools in backward Serbia because he understands that it is a path to progress and a better future. However, Europeans have never passed through our nation and that is their fate to this day. Serbia will have to decide once which civilization it belongs to, says S. Jovanović at the end.

For these reasons, the conversations in Washington led by our president on behalf of Serbia remind me of the story of Jovan Popovic, which we elders read in elementary school as required reading, and which was titled: “Pinky saw Tito.”

Boško Palkovljević, alias Pinki, a national hero of the village of Velika Remeta in Srem, born in 1920, died in 1942, took an important letter from Srem to Bosnia in 1942 and personally delivered it to Josip Broz, and on his return to Fruška gora He talked about her everywhere and won people over to the partisan movement, based on the magnificent impression he got from seeing Tito, just once.

The author is an architect from Belgrade.

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