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Give a complex picture of this country. Serbia as all other Balkan countries, is a mixture of Byzantine, Gypsy, Slavic, Orthodox and Roman cultures. Big boss led it through its history. A country that has always been free and proud, a country looking after itself after all the wounds it had endured in its history. Its past is still in daily gestures. Its traditions weakened in its mind, Serbia is nostalgic. Not yet reconstructed, always torn apart between the East and the West, trying to make itself a place. We feel the fragility of Serbia in its intimacy. The changes take place sometimes gently and sometimes with violence. Serbia remains torn, building itself an uncertain future. Smalls ends, here and there show us the road it is drawing through its history. The war, after more than 10 years, is trying to fade away. A name is remaining though: "Tito", the last symbol of all of former Yugoslavia's regions. He is not an idol anymore, but represents a "nostalgia" for former Yugoslavia's past, from Bosnia to Croatia and naturally in Serbia, where Tito is still "the man of the stability". Objects representing him are sold in his glory; exhibitions on his life are organized, his Mausoleum is visited by many people. His picture can still be seen in many cafés from Belgrade to Sarajevo. Tito remains the man who allows different generations to make a link between past and present. People in Serbia still keep him in their memory to transmit confidence to future generations. |
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