Putin aims to make propaganda through Serbian director, invites him to meeting

Serbia is getting closer to the Russian world by the day. This is demonstrated by the recent visit of a Serbian artist to the Kremlin.

Serbian director Emir Kusturica met with Russian President Vladimir Putin a few days ago.

The Serbian director is known for his public statements in which he supports Putin’s every action in Ukraine.

During the conversation with the Russian president, Kusturica drew a comparison between what he called Croatian “Ustash” and Ukrainian “Bander”, while Putin admitted without hesitation that such a comparison was legitimate and stated that Kusturica’s assessment of the events in Ukraine coincided with his assessment and that the events in Serbia and Ukraine are very similar.

“Your assessments today, including the tragic events in Ukraine and the analogy with the events in Yugoslavia during the Second World War, are fully in line with mine,” he said. “What happened then in Serbia and what is happening today between Russia and Ukraine – the glorification, the elevation of the fascist elements of the past to a pedestal and breathing new life into them today – are very similar phenomena,” the Russian president said.

Kusturica went to ask Putin for money.

Srecko Gjukic, a member of the Forum for International Relations, says that Kusturica was connected to Moscow “for reasons known to him”, but that he achieved fame in the SFRY and the West – not in the USSR.

“So precisely for the denial of Soviet socialism. “If it is true that both Putin and Kusturica think that the events in Serbia and Ukraine are very similar and that we are facing a dark war in the Republic of Serbia, we can guess who will attack us,” he says.

They, Djukic adds, remained undecided as to who in Serbia is promoting this and looking down on the vampirized “fascist elements” in Serbia and who is rehabilitating them.

“Kusturica came to Putin’s representative cabinet in the Kremlin to ask for money to end his career with a new movie.”

Putin created a new totalitarianism of the 21st century

Boris Varga, political scientist and journalist, says that Putin has no choice but to use “brutal propaganda and fake news” to convince the whole world of the correctness of his actions.

“In building the “Russian world”, he obsessively interprets his version of history everywhere, his personal fight against “fascism”. Thanks to this war against “fascism” and “denazification”, which for him is clearly a war against the West, Putin has created a new totalitarianism of the 21st century,” says Varga.

Nevertheless, he says, there are few fighters for global justice who believe in the Russian tsar, while his hands are bloody from Ukraine.

“There are also those who fell into the trap of the Russian secret service out of perhaps sincere but naive convictions. But above all, there are those who, for pure profit and financial reasons, accepted this kind of reality and agreed to join the court of the new bloody emperor. “We will find out where Emir Kusturica is,” Varga emphasizes.

Varga points out that “it is certain that for the first time in history, Kusturica is seeing free-thinking and creative Russians fleeing Russia”, who, he says, were persecuted and eliminated by Putin even before the war in Ukraine.

“Even the so-called “Global South”, on whose behalf Putin often tries to speak, is aware of the disastrous policy of the Russian president, but the same countries consider it useful,” says our interlocutor, writes RKS News.

Unfortunately, he adds, the prevailing narrative in the Serbian media is that an expansion of “NATO aggression” is taking place in Ukraine, against which Russia is “only defending itself”.

“Since we do not deal with the recent past, with the crimes committed in the name of the great Serbian idea in the wars of the 90s and the disappointment of defeat, such an interpretation will be present in the Serbian public media and political discourse.” another time,” says Varga, adding that for this reason “the Serbian audience will be fertile ground for Russian war propaganda and Serbian society in conflict with the West.”

Previously, the Serbian director had publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In his opinion, this was a necessary measure in response to the “aggression of the West”, which aims to “wipe the Russians off the map.” /TheGeopost/