Fwd: Star Tracks: Letter from Belgrade
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Subject: Fwd: Star Tracks: Letter from Belgrade
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Original sender: Bakhrom Tursunov <[email protected]>
Fwd: Star Tracks: Letter from Belgrade
Dear Boris,
I am submitting this into the network with the authors' permission.
The authors' name is Maja, she lives in Belgrade.
Regards,
Bakhrom
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(From the moderator: I'd like just to remind that the MINELRES
moderator must not necessarily share the views expressed in this or
that posting. I believe that, regardless of how one evaluates the NATO
actions, it is useful to know how common people in Yugoslavia - not
the political leadership - feel these days.
Boris)
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Star Tracks
Dear friend,
It is already 50 days that we live in the parallel universe where 19
most powerful nations are attacking Yugoslavia. In this alternative
time zone, the worst military alliance from known part of universe
attacked our small country and like some robots they are repeating:
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. But our lonely planet
is still resisting to be turned in to slavery with collective mind
control, and instead losses, we are still on our feet. Because I love
S-F this is perfect way to explain reality.
Our self defense mechanism is working with full strength and everybody
found own way to persuade himself that everything is ok, and like a
child when fall repeat: Everything is fine.
My parents, for example, got inspiration and decided to repaint the
walls of their apartment. Young people got to the conclusion that this
is all big party and they are all day moving from one place to
another. During the day, they are on the concerts on the main square,
in the evening on the bridge, during the night on the roofs or in the
gardens.
We have a new sport team, anti air craft artillery. They are competing
in the discipline - shooting missiles and planes and every success is
celebrated with big applause from the above mentioned roofs and
gardens. Those who prefer culture are having wonderful time, all
theater plays and concerts of classic music are free, in free time
they are visiting libraries, reading books trying to find some clever
thoughts, written by some who managed to survive our happy history,
and wrote: everything must end someday.
Of course, Serbs are living in denial for years. Some American asked
me: How can you live without gasoline. And I don't know how to explain
that for me it is normal that my neighbor Mika, with cigar in his
mouth, put three different types of gasoline in my car, from plastic
coca-cola bottles.
When Yugoslavia started to fall apart, we all passed condition
training for war, no cigarettes, gasoline, restrictions for food,
champions in inflation, 1000% per day, the only NEW are bombs, but we
will get use to it.
Here in YU whenever we hear sirens, TV and radio broadcast are
stopping current program and they switch on our center for
information, there is some man Avram Israel, and then he says "that
was the siren that announced air raid attack. Please open your
windows, turn off electricity, and slowly and without panic, go to
your shelter. Over" Immediately people started to tell the joke. - How
do people in Belgrade make love: Slowly, without panic, over! over!!!!
At first Avram's voice was calm, but after a while when he realized
nobody listen to him, his voice became angry. We don't need his
information center, nobody is going to shelter, when we hear
detonations, we have our information centers, cousins, friends, the
phones work immediately, so our all phone calls starts "Was that near
you". If the phone rings after midnight, I don't even bother to listen
the question, I immediately say "No, it wasn't here". In case if that
was the wrong number, we all have that patriotic duty to be polite at
4 in the morning.
Few nights ago, I got the wrong number, and some old man told me
"Doesn't matter child, write my number and give me a call if they hit
you." Although Novi Sad and Nis are favorites, Belgrade had also
unforgettable April's nights.
When they hit chemical factory, there was huge black fume with radish
flashes, like from Star Tracks. Police immediately evacuated Pancevo,
Borca, Ovca (suburbs), but some people refused to go in the name they
become mutants. And than like in bad American movie, like deux ex
machina, started the storm and hard rain, and the fume was gone.
Everything was fine if we don't concern oil in Danube and poisoned
soil. Next were TV stations, first they destroyed big building, where
were 5 TV stations, they were clever and they evacuated few hours
before. It was legitimate target because there were offices of
socialist party. Few nights later they hit the same building.
Then great alliance's strategs decided to destroy president's
residence. Family of our democratic chosen president wasn't there, all
together with Louis XVI chairs, impressionistic pictures, and vases
from Ming period. They all slept on some other place. I was more
shaken then the president, those two missiles passed above my head.
My mother was in panic fear, because national TV station is in my
neighborhood. When they finally hit it, she was the only relaxed, the
others murmured "is it possible?" After that, we had a few calm
nights, they had birthday party, but the rest of the country wasn't so
happy.
Every target must be hit at least twenty times, but they are throwing
millions and millions of dollars, all those places built Tito in the
case of nuclear war.
It became boring, all those targets. People here believed that it
wouldn't last more than a week at the beginning. Now, we became
stubborn, and the collective feeling in Belgrade is defined with one
clever sofisticated thought: "Fuck them"
I gave up watching NATO briefings, all those arguments and debates
seems like bad episode of earlier mentioned Star Tracks, war between
Romulances and Clingons.
It would be funny, but it is tragic to watch their imagination, we are
taking blood from Albanian boys. Why boys, not girls, is there some
pedofil-gay's imagination.
Russians are satisfied, why to bother with Americans directly, when we
are doing it instead.
Well, everyday I hear rumors, tonight they will hit the bridges. It
was always false, but they'll do it for sure. I hope they wont destroy
nearby market place, I want to buy flowers for balcony and
strowberries. Well, to return to normal time flow, it is necessary to
break continuum time-space, it usually happens during big explosions
like contact between matter-antimatter. Until now, it is dropped 1 kg
of explosive per head, it is 8,3 bombs thrown on Hiroshima, and a lot
of things that were matter yesterday, today are antimatter. My poor
Pickard, you still don't get the point.
God bless our bridges
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