Posted on 11/15/2014 7:48:22 PM PST by wetphoenix
Belgrade (AFP) - Some 10,000 supporters of the Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, released by a UN war crimes court for cancer therapy, joined him Saturday at a rally in protest at his country's shift towards Europe.
The gathering was seen as a test of Seselj's influence at home, where he returned this week after almost 12 years in detention at the court in The Hague, yet to issue a verdict in his trial for crimes during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
"Serbia has to decide should it go towards the East (Russia) or towards the West, where all its enemies are," the 60-year-old firebrand told a euphoric crowd in downtown Belgrade.
"We will not wait for the end of this government's mandate. Already next year we will have elections that the Serb Radical Party (SRS) will win," Seselj vowed from the stage.
Waving the flags of Serbia and Russia, the Balkan country's traditional ally, his supporters carried portraits of President Vladimir Putin and the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and banners reading "No to EU and NATO".
Serbia opened membership talks with the European Union this year.
Seselj has vowed to unseat from power his former closest collaborators -- President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic -- who both left his party in 2008 and founded their own pro-European SNS movement.
Immediately upon his arrival in Belgrade, Seselj labelled the two "traitors" who "sold our honour and gave up Serb nationalism to become servants of the West".
"He will liberate us from those pro-European bootlickers," Petar Radojkovic, a 47-year-old construction worker who joined the rally told AFP, in a reference to the government.
Milanka Stupljanin, a 29-year-old saleswoman, said the ultranationalist was the "only one who can revive Serbia."
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They are GOING TO REGRET ever releasing this guy from jail, as they’re likely learning now. They should have simply had him die in an ‘accident’.
Serbia will obviously reposition itself, knowing that Russia is on the advance in that part of Europe and NATO is reduced to little more than the Polish Calvary.
Seselj is an unreconstructed unrepentant Marxist so of course he looks to the unrepentant Neo-Soviet terrorist KGB Putin who has turned the clock back in Russia to Soviet times.
LOL ! Thank God, accepting these nutjobs into civilization would be critical mistake.
Yes “Bob” :)))
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