Do You Believe in Change? .:. WorkerBee PH-Pool Week 298
It looks like I'm still in my "grumpy mood," which I mentioned a week ago (and probably in a couple (or more) posts before 😃), but with a slight improvement in a positive direction... Yesterday was election day in Serbia, the country where I lived more than half my life, where I was born, and from which I emigrated almost 14 years ago... Was it necessary to leave? Probably not, but against all odds, I did it, along with my wife and a small child... Searching for a normal life...
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14 years ago, I ran a computer store with an additional hosting business... My wife worked in a public music school as a chief of department, with a promotion behind the corner (principal offer)... We had a roof over our heads, an old, big house with a nice garden, where my grandparents lived, which we completely renovated with our own income and salaries... We had a nice life...
But it wasn't like that always... The former Yugoslavia had a very turbulent history: civil war(s), NATO bombing, hyperinflation, high corruption rate, poverty... Most of those things happened while I was studying at the university... I remember the days when there was no public transport, and I was hitchhiking at the side of the road... It was 6-7 PM; it was getting dark, and there were almost no cars on the road... Why? Well, in that period, the country was suffering constant air strikes (bombing) every single night... Targets were mostly military complexes, oil refineries, bridges... And I was hitchhiking on the bridge, a mile or two away from an oil refinery in Novi Sad...
Long story short, after that period, we finally got rid of one of the biggest issues the country had: their president, Milosevic... He fell because people got fed up with the country run by criminals and crooks... Suddenly, we had a HOPE... A hope for a better future... We had a few "clean" politicians who wanted to see their citizens happy, and to see people living better... But we ALL made a huge mistake...
When someone rules over the country for over a decade, their tentacles go into all layers of society... And the old governing party did exactly that... The criminals were ruling over the country, along with dirty politicians... We did remove Milosevic, but those people in the shadows didn't want to go without the fight... So they made multiple attempts to assassinate the people from the newly democratically chosen party... In the end, they succeeded and killed the prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, on March 12, 2003... That moment was one of the turning points of the recently formed country, Serbia... After less than 4 years, the clock stopped again, and it began to move backwards...
Fast forward to today... After 14 years of rule, the same people who were "reborn" on the day when the last REAL prime minister was assassinated, they are beaten on democratic elections... Again... They wear different colors, but the same attitude, the same poison, the same hate speech... They lost... They lose to another young generation, people who don't want too much... People who want to live a normal life, in a normal country, where rules and laws are the same for everyone... They want the same that my generation wanted 25-30 years ago...
I'm full of hope they will achieve what we started... But still, full of fear too, as I know that evil forces will try everything to keep their power... Unfortunately, they succeeded 23 years ago, but I hope that these young people will be smarter than us, less naive, and more ruthless, and pull out the bad weeds ASAP... Bring them to justice and remove them from political life forever!
Do you believe in change? Is it possible to "cure" society? After so many years of brainwashing... After so much poisoning, it will be hard to be free again... I want to believe it is possible...
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I was so happy when I heard the news yesterday, the students had been fighting so hard for so long.
Now the real work starts, they have the country's future in their hands, I really hope Serbia can move forward to a better place now
They can be proud of themselves! I have never seen something like that anywhere... To be persistent, to "play" clean, to be fair and honest, and to win against such a dirty, led campaign of the ruling party...
It gives hope to humanity... Not just to people in Serbia, but all around the world... While we have such ridiculous people in charge of the biggest countries in the world...
One of my best friends and his brother came to South Africa after escaping from Yugoslavia many years ago. He was my partner in the dairy business here, and sadly he died in July this year.
Oh, sorry to hear you lost your best friend... It is great to hear that you had a positive experience with them... Most people who left the country were "ordinary", hard-working people... We all just wanted to live normally...
i do remember that war all to well , Dutch UN soldiers ,back then i was still living in Amsterdam .
I can only hope that they are indeed willing to make a change...
We will see what will happen... The most important thing is to get law and order back in place... Without that, organized criminals will continue to rule the country...
That hitchhiking memory says more than any history summary could — a mile from an oil refinery during nightly strikes, in the dark, with no public transport because the infrastructure itself had become the target. That's not abstract history. That's a Tuesday evening you actually lived through.
🕯️ A few things that really landed:
"We ALL made a huge mistake" — that line is the heaviest one in the whole piece. Hope after Milošević fell must have felt completely earned and real, which makes watching the rot regrow under new colors so much heavier than ordinary disillusionment. It's not cynicism. It's grief for a chance that genuinely existed and got taken.
Zoran Đinđić's assassination as the real turning point says something brutal and honest: the old guard didn't just lose an election and fade away, they fought dirty and won that fight, and the clock didn't just pause after that, it ran backwards for over two decades.
The new generation beating them at the ballot box now — "different colors, same poison" — reads less like naive optimism and more like a hard-earned kind of hope, the kind that's seen exactly how this story can go wrong and chooses to try anyway.
⚖️ On the actual question — do you believe in change?
Honestly, the fact you can still ask it sincerely, not rhetorically, after living through all of this, already answers something. Cynicism would've been the easier exit a long time ago. What you're describing instead sounds like conditional hope: not "it will definitely work," but "it's worth trying again, more carefully this time, with eyes open about how it failed before." That's a harder, more honest kind of belief than blind optimism ever was.
🐝 Hoping this generation gets to finish what yours started — and that "pulling out the bad weeds" actually sticks this time.
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I think the real challenge is changing the system and making sure corruption doesn't simply return under a different name.
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