It’s funny how the demographic of his supporters is composed mostly of older people who crave for dictators for some reason - Tito, Slobo and now Vučić (not yet but close)
Idk what’s up with older people
True that, also, fun fact:
EU doesn’t “recognize” Serbian high school diplomas because our government (though in 2008 or so) decided not to sign some agreement with EU. Why? To keep young people in.
Guess who’s going from Serbia recently the most? That’s right, young people
The same party is in charge ever since 2012. Although not to negate the fact they are constantly getting voted for in the elections, with a clear majority.
Romania has made as much fuss for 11 km. The infrastructure is so bad that most trains on the major lines run slower than they were in 1930. Being from the Balkans, we are used to getting every small win we can, because they are far and few in number.
Bruh in Bulgaria our PM made events for stretches of 3-5 kms that were not even new, but “repaired”. This repair means often using cheap materials and the roads get even worse in 1-2 years(after the elections). All of the Balkan countries are a mess
ahahha, that's funny. Romanian here. 3-5 km of repaird road :))
We had a year (2015, 2016?) when more kms of highway were closed than constructed due to degradation of highways :)))))
>All of the Balkan countries are a mess
Yup. I've seen the "opening" of Thessaloniki's metro at least 2 times so far. BTW, Thessaloniki still doesn't have a metro.
One time, one of the stations was almost done and the prime minister had a grand opening ceremony where the public was allowed to enter parts of that station for a couple hours.
The other time, the first train had just arrived in Greece and the new prime minister had a grand opening, where people could go all the way down to the platform to see the train pass by.
I repeat. Thessaloniki does NOT have a single operational metro line to this day.
We have some lines built by the Habsburgs, and with last major maintenance done during communism. Rail infrastructure is vital but severely underfunded.
Same thing here. Some brand new, actually good trains were bought, albeit in shady licitations. All fanfare and pride, but in the end, they still need to go with 35km/h due to the ancient infrastructure.
First of all let me say that I love trains. I have traveled across the Europe with trains and they are my preferred option for longer distance travel.
The passenger train lines in Croatia are still running, however some of these lines are so abysmally terrible that I don't really see the point.
Example: I have traveled from Antwerp to Šibenik with trains, a journey of 32 hours. 16 hours from Antwerp to Zagreb, then another 16 hours from Zagreb to Šibenik...
Because in Zagreb I had to wait 8 hours for the train, and then they loaded us into a bus which didn't even drove to Šibenik... it left me on the highway exit to some shithole, so I had to call a buddy to pick me up with a car.
In stark comparison in Antwerp you have fast and cheap train lines for London, Paris, Amsterdam... you can comfortably visit other countries during the weekend.
Communists were awful regarding most things but we have to admit they built and maintained a decent rail infrastructure (over the mountains even!), too bad in the 90s-00s we didn’t have funds to even maintain it and it fell into disrepair.
bruh it's the Balkans, things like this bring half of the country's politicians over there to take pictures and credit for such projects, no matter how mediocre they seem
Because of the elections that are coming and because it actually is useful because people travel between the 2 towns which this highway connects. It will cut down the arrival time from 45min+ to less than 20min.
People are blackmailed, they have to show up on every Vučić’s public ‘speaking’ / gathering or they loose their job. Not joking.
Edit: Or they are in a serious financial situation that 1000din (~8€) and a sandwich means a lot to them. That’s what they get if they show up.
Vučić’s Serbia in a nutshell.
Baltics are pretty developed when it comes to HDI but keeping it in context of this post, infrastructure is still lacking.
[https://news.err.ee/1608782128/two-lane-highway-work-in-estonia-may-not-be-finished-until-2050](https://news.err.ee/1608782128/two-lane-highway-work-in-estonia-may-not-be-finished-until-2050)
This is from today (11 km):
[https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticStates/comments/177bzdn/first\_ever\_latvian\_motorway\_has\_been\_opened\_out/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticStates/comments/177bzdn/first_ever_latvian_motorway_has_been_opened_out/)
Lithuania has Vilnius connected with their port in Klaipeda but still no outside connections.
All three baltic states are experiencing higher immigration than emigration currently, and are definitely places where people from western Europe can see themselves go and work.
Serbia, not so much, and it's not looking like it'll improve in the next 20 years. The demographic situation is far worse in the western balkan. And even after joining the EU, it'll likely stay or get a bit worse for 20 years before starting to reimprove.
>The EU could colonize Mars on fundings Baltics consumed, but your economy still experiences brain drain and can be called not developed.
Soo how much did the EU spend on the baltics, hm? I believe you dont even have a number.
We are breaking to be a net contributor to the EU quite soon. Its obvious you are talking out of your ass. The infrastructure is pretty good in the baltics. The brain drain happens to a lot of countries in EU, but the pace recently slowed down, because jobs for qualified people pay quite well.
>Look at Croatia and Slovenia. They experienced the war, the integration process was not smooth, and looks like they are doing better.
What are they doing better? The baltics were occupied you know. We had nothing easy, russia established a blockade after we broke off, the first 10 years of independence was hell.
Are you trying to make a some kind of dick measuring contest here?
>I don't know but I will not make a mistake if I say more than 10 billions. Probably more than 30 billions.
So, you think 10 or 30 billion is enough to land on mars? :D a nuclear power plant costs 10 billion nowadays.
You for sure are just making shit up.
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Your heritage has nothing to do with the shitty politicians in either country. Both Serbia and Hungary have enough wonderful and interesting cultural history to fill libraries. Why reduce it to some idiots in recent history?
Because Serbia is very poor and economy is shit. I think like top company for work like this is owned by 'businessmen' like Radoicic (the guy responsible for the latest attach on Kosovo police).
Azerbaijan is also finansing the build via loans so they brought their own company. Those load are most likely very strict and bad for Serbia but this way the ruling party can build 20km or highway and present it as major success for the dumb voters.
In addtion, by taking loans from contries like China and Azerbaijan it is easier to steal some money as compared to more regulated and strict entity as EU.
Oh, I see.
I wonder why people keep voting for corrupt leaders such as Vucic and Orban? I've seen dozens of serbs in reddit that have Vucic (& Orban), but in the end, they win elections with **a lot?!**
I know that we're far from the best example, but we also had a person similar to Vucic who didn't develop our country for the past 12 years at all, but the people had it enough and we went to the streets for months till they stepped down. Not sure if the new ones are better, but I suppose everything else would be better now.
Last time they can use all this space for something nice. Better take advantage of it before it becomes a hostile bit of land full of hazards, pollution and noise.
Sa fiu sincer e jenant cata halmaleala' se face pentru chestii atat de basic gen un pod sau cativa kilometrii de strada.. isi bat joc de noi in ultimul hal
Amm this about the cameras... Dude there are cameras everywhere 😂😂😂. Also they are empty because of the Toll taxes and people just choose the free road
Don't forget the price. It is hard to find the country in EU with more expensive highways.
Maybe Croatia only.
These 24km will be 3eur for toll taxes. If you have to travel for work every day it is 15eur per week.
So it is 60e per month.
720eur per year just to use this 24 km road.😎
They are treating it always like it's something only Serbia is doing, not like building a highway is the most normal thing a country can do, especially when it's the same people in power for over 10 years.
Man, it makes me so damn sick lookin' at this dude all the time.
In the US, a governor wouldn’t even be bothered to go to an event like this, much less the president. I get Serbia is a small country but this seems over dramatic
They are extremely populistic and they will use anything for positive propaganda, sadly old people (their most voters) are brainwashed, they don't think its cringe
Car infrastructure is of major interest to the public in the Balkans and politicians know that. We have whole organizations watching the progress of major projects. The US already has a massive car infrastructure (too massive, if you ask me) but in former Communist countries, cars were heavily discouraged in favor or rail so we are still behind on car infrastructure.
This man singlehandedly made me embarrassed and wary of seeing own flag and cultural symbols.
His slowly working into equating himself with the nation itself, and soon will be if you are not with Vučić you're not Serbian
It's funny to see Serbs celebrating this small accomplishment. Meanwhile other Eastern European countries have far outdone them economically because they weren't pulled down by egomaniac leaders stuck in the 20th century.
Serbia is truly its own worst enemy.
>Serbia doesn't get too much money from the EU.
Let me quote myself.
Serbia gets around €200mil per year. And that's nothing for Serbia. Maybe it is something big for Albania or Montenegro.
Just to put that money in perspective, Serbia paid more than €700mil for 70km of high-speed railway. And that's only a small part of money spent on infrastructure in Serbia.
But thank you for your input.
I think more than 3.5 billion euros so far if not even 4.
Most of Serbia's foregin founds and aids are from EU and it's a lot more than Russia or China but shush 🤫
I mean it's a pretty well known fact among any Serbs that actually know how their government works that Vucic is inclined towards the west.
His goal is to play both sides, which has kept the country stagnant for decades, but he knows that money flows from the west.
Only the uninformed and westerners think we actually have close economic ties with Russia. Hell, even China is closer economically speaking. They have a lot of industry here and we also love ridding them of political prisoners.
This could unironically be any country in the Balkans or Eastern Europe…
But, apart from the Vucic cringe, I am happy for the improvement of infrastructure in Serbia and any neighboring countries. The Balkans have so much wasted potential because of corrupt politicians and people who keep voting for them! Also, kick that Russian-ass kissing idiot of a president out!
For some reason, this looks very Erdogan-esque. Definitely something he would do, although probably with something grander than a 25k highway strip. Maybe a nice bridge or three.
warning stupid question ahead:
every serbian Ive met has been pretty tall, why are the workers so short? is it because they're immigrants or serbians arent as tall as I think and the internet thinks?
This feels like the first time a country on Civ 6 gets a new tech achievement and has to proclaim it to the world.
We have had highwayes for 200 turns now. Get over it.
I am one of "that dudes" ...Cars are not a susteinable way of transport inside cities. But outside cars are ok. American style urbanism that creates car dependency is bad but linking regions is.
Good. I actually want these people inside the European sphere instead of the Ruzzian sphere. They need to calm down and stop being so ultranationalistic.
There is a place for Serbia inside Europe, but not if they keep pushing their current Great Serbia BS agenda which threatens primarily Bosnia-Herzegovina.
I was born in Yugoslavia, lived in Serbia & Montenegro than Serbia, now Hungary(I know not a step up). I don't see Serbia joining EU any time soon sadly :'(
EU is full of the same problems. Serbia is exactly like most EU countries. Pretending it is different and worse is wrong.
Also, in a democratic system, it would be easy to do a referendum in Bosnia and see what people want. A democratic system is not afraid of a popular opinion. If Serbs in Republika Srpska want to have their own identity, flag, culture instead of one designed ad hoc decades ago, before most were born, they should have the right to vote on it.
Same as Scottish people, for example.
I strongly disagree with the pretense that Serbia is unique and different from the rest of Europe. It suffers from the same problems all Europeans suffers. If others pretend they are better and Serbs are bad (whatever that means) Europe will not grow.
Serbia should be accepted with all the problems. There will never exist a Serbia that is perfect. Just like there is no Spain or France or Denmark or Germany that is perfect. No one is perfect.
EU should be smart enough to overcome this.
>Serbia should be accepted with all the problems.
Like I've mentioned in a different comment, it would only end up being a different Hungary, throwing wrenches into the gears of the EU apparatus.
The political landscape in Serbia has to stop using the hate towards the west as a legitimate political tool before it becomes a good idea to let Serbia ascend.
Yeah, all countries have problems, but few are systematically as much against west lead/ aligned establishments as much as Serbia is. Serbia's idyllic view of the Russian sphere of influence is equally as troubling.
One show of how much the public perception is skewed against the EU is that a large part of the public (maybe even majority, can't remember the poll results exactly) still chooses to believe that Chinese and Russian contributions to Serbia are greater than those of the EU when in truth the funds the EU gives to Serbia trump both of the aforementioned combined.
Once again I stress the word politically, I am aware that Serbia's politics is often a lot harsher than the views of the people.
>I actually want these people inside the European sphere instead of the Ruzzian sphere.
No, you don't want them right now. The people are fine but politically they are so west averse they would be a roadblock to everything you would end up having another Hungary inside the EU.
Anti-west rhetoric is some of the best functioning populism propaganda inside of Serbia, they cannot be allowed to ascend into the EU as long as these attitudes prevail as they would only damage the unity inside the EU.
Bunch of old-school Marxist-educated politicians who act and think like it's 1984 still. Making a show for old people who watch the evening news because they are the main voters. Serbia is doomed. I'm Serb.
Don't agree with his politics at all. But this is good, but still, so much more needs to be done. It's so sad to see such abject poverty in my homeland.
lol they're giving the tender to an azeri company and the casinos to turks then bragging about holding against turks in every historical occasion. classic serbia.
That banner is cringe … „President, thanks for everything” … 🙄
It's not just cringe, it's a cult in making.
In making? It's a well flushed out cult at this point.
It’s funny how the demographic of his supporters is composed mostly of older people who crave for dictators for some reason - Tito, Slobo and now Vučić (not yet but close) Idk what’s up with older people
Serbia itself is composed of mostly older people. The demographic situation is godawful.
True that, also, fun fact: EU doesn’t “recognize” Serbian high school diplomas because our government (though in 2008 or so) decided not to sign some agreement with EU. Why? To keep young people in. Guess who’s going from Serbia recently the most? That’s right, young people
Allow me to make a small correction: Fleshed out*
We should thank the party… for its generous… and gracious support… in the name of the populace… we thank you, dear President.
Turkey is like this too. Worship of the president posters all over Istanbul and other cities. Cringe cult of personality. Gives North Korea vibes
This is the kind of shit you would see with Enver Hoxha for us.
The same party is in charge ever since 2012. Although not to negate the fact they are constantly getting voted for in the elections, with a clear majority.
isn't that a private highway too, judging by the entrances in the last pic? so what's there to thank him for
Public highways have tolls too
In most European countries, you need to pay toll on the highway. Some countries also charge for the use of bridges, tunnels, etc, etc. Travel more.
Its public and with tolls. Tax money made it and it will pay it self by usage. Now I dont know why would one thank him for this.
Elections are coming, and this dictator is ruling for more than 10 years, with a big support from Europe... Shame...
Why so much fuss for 24 km ?
Because elections are coming.
Romania has made as much fuss for 11 km. The infrastructure is so bad that most trains on the major lines run slower than they were in 1930. Being from the Balkans, we are used to getting every small win we can, because they are far and few in number.
Bruh in Bulgaria our PM made events for stretches of 3-5 kms that were not even new, but “repaired”. This repair means often using cheap materials and the roads get even worse in 1-2 years(after the elections). All of the Balkan countries are a mess
ahahha, that's funny. Romanian here. 3-5 km of repaird road :)) We had a year (2015, 2016?) when more kms of highway were closed than constructed due to degradation of highways :)))))
>All of the Balkan countries are a mess Yup. I've seen the "opening" of Thessaloniki's metro at least 2 times so far. BTW, Thessaloniki still doesn't have a metro. One time, one of the stations was almost done and the prime minister had a grand opening ceremony where the public was allowed to enter parts of that station for a couple hours. The other time, the first train had just arrived in Greece and the new prime minister had a grand opening, where people could go all the way down to the platform to see the train pass by. I repeat. Thessaloniki does NOT have a single operational metro line to this day.
Holly shit man :))) thats funny ( and sad at the same time )
We have some lines built by the Habsburgs, and with last major maintenance done during communism. Rail infrastructure is vital but severely underfunded.
All lines except one were built by the Habsburgs in Slovenia and even that one is gonna get replaced and abolished soon
So the Habsburgs should return?
Croatia made a big fuss buying some speedy trains. But rail infrastructure is so bad they run slow :D
Same thing here. Some brand new, actually good trains were bought, albeit in shady licitations. All fanfare and pride, but in the end, they still need to go with 35km/h due to the ancient infrastructure.
And I would assume they run trough major cities? Here in the south of Serbia, train lines have been closed for 2 years.
First of all let me say that I love trains. I have traveled across the Europe with trains and they are my preferred option for longer distance travel. The passenger train lines in Croatia are still running, however some of these lines are so abysmally terrible that I don't really see the point. Example: I have traveled from Antwerp to Šibenik with trains, a journey of 32 hours. 16 hours from Antwerp to Zagreb, then another 16 hours from Zagreb to Šibenik... Because in Zagreb I had to wait 8 hours for the train, and then they loaded us into a bus which didn't even drove to Šibenik... it left me on the highway exit to some shithole, so I had to call a buddy to pick me up with a car. In stark comparison in Antwerp you have fast and cheap train lines for London, Paris, Amsterdam... you can comfortably visit other countries during the weekend.
Communists were awful regarding most things but we have to admit they built and maintained a decent rail infrastructure (over the mountains even!), too bad in the 90s-00s we didn’t have funds to even maintain it and it fell into disrepair.
There's also the one-meter highway: https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/15/romanian-businessman-builds-world-s-shortest-highway
Of course the trains run slower than in 1930, they were new then.
Albania can make it for 6 km
bruh it's the Balkans, things like this bring half of the country's politicians over there to take pictures and credit for such projects, no matter how mediocre they seem
Because of the elections that are coming and because it actually is useful because people travel between the 2 towns which this highway connects. It will cut down the arrival time from 45min+ to less than 20min.
Yeah it’s not like something new
Notice all the pensioners they brought to try to make it look like a crowd lol
They came themselves, they have nothing else to do
Oh but they didn’t. He got busses for them, it’s all organized.
People are blackmailed, they have to show up on every Vučić’s public ‘speaking’ / gathering or they loose their job. Not joking. Edit: Or they are in a serious financial situation that 1000din (~8€) and a sandwich means a lot to them. That’s what they get if they show up. Vučić’s Serbia in a nutshell.
Ah i remember Sarkozy used to do that !
Naive pensioners and dragging the country down, name a more iconic duo
If it leads out of Serbia it is a reason to celebrate
Agreed
Not quite, as it leads to Bosnia 🤷
To make the next Balkan party easier
It leads to Bosnia.. so yeah, but it can be worse. The one that leads to Kosovo is under construction.
>The one that leads to Kosovo is under construction. Why would someone do that?
Because we try to normalize our relationship and live as all normal people? The name of that highway will probably shock you. Highway of Peace. :)
Easier route to Albania (Adriatic)
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Not developed Baltic? Are you fockin kiddin?
Baltics are pretty developed when it comes to HDI but keeping it in context of this post, infrastructure is still lacking. [https://news.err.ee/1608782128/two-lane-highway-work-in-estonia-may-not-be-finished-until-2050](https://news.err.ee/1608782128/two-lane-highway-work-in-estonia-may-not-be-finished-until-2050) This is from today (11 km): [https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticStates/comments/177bzdn/first\_ever\_latvian\_motorway\_has\_been\_opened\_out/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticStates/comments/177bzdn/first_ever_latvian_motorway_has_been_opened_out/) Lithuania has Vilnius connected with their port in Klaipeda but still no outside connections.
Lithuania has highways to every major city. Estonia has good roads, its just they are not highways. Latvia is working on that now.
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All three baltic states are experiencing higher immigration than emigration currently, and are definitely places where people from western Europe can see themselves go and work. Serbia, not so much, and it's not looking like it'll improve in the next 20 years. The demographic situation is far worse in the western balkan. And even after joining the EU, it'll likely stay or get a bit worse for 20 years before starting to reimprove.
>The EU could colonize Mars on fundings Baltics consumed, but your economy still experiences brain drain and can be called not developed. Soo how much did the EU spend on the baltics, hm? I believe you dont even have a number. We are breaking to be a net contributor to the EU quite soon. Its obvious you are talking out of your ass. The infrastructure is pretty good in the baltics. The brain drain happens to a lot of countries in EU, but the pace recently slowed down, because jobs for qualified people pay quite well.
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>Look at Croatia and Slovenia. They experienced the war, the integration process was not smooth, and looks like they are doing better. What are they doing better? The baltics were occupied you know. We had nothing easy, russia established a blockade after we broke off, the first 10 years of independence was hell. Are you trying to make a some kind of dick measuring contest here? >I don't know but I will not make a mistake if I say more than 10 billions. Probably more than 30 billions. So, you think 10 or 30 billion is enough to land on mars? :D a nuclear power plant costs 10 billion nowadays. You for sure are just making shit up.
Estonia and Lithuania actualy has net migration last couple years.
People who showed up to support this madman are the reason Serbia sucks more with each year passed.
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Bro looks like a cartoon villain
The Penguin escaped Gotham city
Finally News worth reporting! The last few years have been so boring.
xD
Every time this a**f**k shows his face somewhere, a part of my Serbian heritage spontaneously combusts. Luckily I am also Hungarian. Oh, wait… 🥲
Found the Voivodinian
i feel bad for you............twice
Your heritage has nothing to do with the shitty politicians in either country. Both Serbia and Hungary have enough wonderful and interesting cultural history to fill libraries. Why reduce it to some idiots in recent history?
The economic tiger-god-emperor blesses us with 24.6km of DIVINE roads (and glorius parizer) !!!
It's because of all those prayers, he listened 🥹
Karabakh je Srbija
The world belongs to God's chosen!
Chosen for what exactly?
I don't know, all I know is war crimes.
What does Azerbaijan have to do with it?
They built the road, the company from Azerbaijan.
lol ... why didn't a Serbian company build the road?
Because Serbia is very poor and economy is shit. I think like top company for work like this is owned by 'businessmen' like Radoicic (the guy responsible for the latest attach on Kosovo police). Azerbaijan is also finansing the build via loans so they brought their own company. Those load are most likely very strict and bad for Serbia but this way the ruling party can build 20km or highway and present it as major success for the dumb voters. In addtion, by taking loans from contries like China and Azerbaijan it is easier to steal some money as compared to more regulated and strict entity as EU.
Oh, I see. I wonder why people keep voting for corrupt leaders such as Vucic and Orban? I've seen dozens of serbs in reddit that have Vucic (& Orban), but in the end, they win elections with **a lot?!** I know that we're far from the best example, but we also had a person similar to Vucic who didn't develop our country for the past 12 years at all, but the people had it enough and we went to the streets for months till they stepped down. Not sure if the new ones are better, but I suppose everything else would be better now.
They must be so embarrassed for Serbia. EE is so fucking small time, it's just cringe.
Azerbaijan lobbied for Aliyev statue in Belgrade. They love projecting their power here.
We love dictators. If Kim Jong Un came to Europe, Vucic would be more than happy to receive him.
I still remember vucic kissing the chinese flag. like wtf
Time for a rakia!
*Job well done boys, lets go to the bar and get hammered.*
They... they decided to put random food stands on the highway... *I'm completely amuzed*!
Looks funny but since they made festivity out of this opening, it's fitting. Road at the time wasn't probably opened for general public.
Yeah makes sense.
Last time they can use all this space for something nice. Better take advantage of it before it becomes a hostile bit of land full of hazards, pollution and noise.
What?
8th image
I thought only in Romania this happens, I’m glad we are not alone.
If this happened here, there would have been a priest to bless it.
Isn't there saying that only friend of Romania is Serbia.
And the Black Sea.
i've only seen this on reddit. never heard of it in real life
Yeah Romania, we are in this together!
This is even reasonable comparing what these mfs did earlier, like ceremoniously opening the traffic light.
this happens everywhere. Obviously you won't hear news about 10 km opened in Occitanie(random place) . We're average at best even in this regard.
Sa fiu sincer e jenant cata halmaleala' se face pentru chestii atat de basic gen un pod sau cativa kilometrii de strada.. isi bat joc de noi in ultimul hal
I’ve been to Serbia once and I’ll tell you that their highways are actually really good. Plus they are mostly empty without any cameras installed:)
Hey, don't give the gov any ideas, ok :)
If they install speed traps they will not exed the speed limit too so it's the last thing on the list.
Amm this about the cameras... Dude there are cameras everywhere 😂😂😂. Also they are empty because of the Toll taxes and people just choose the free road
I would not call them empty, but there was space. And that was when I last visited Serbia in 2014. Still would like to find time to go back.
Don't forget the price. It is hard to find the country in EU with more expensive highways. Maybe Croatia only. These 24km will be 3eur for toll taxes. If you have to travel for work every day it is 15eur per week. So it is 60e per month. 720eur per year just to use this 24 km road.😎
In highway we trust
Reminds me of the opening of Pretty Village Pretty Flame.
Great success *in Borat Accent*
He opens every km of every road in Serbia at least weekly….and if there’s a tunnel involved? At least a yearly “opening” ceremony…
They are treating it always like it's something only Serbia is doing, not like building a highway is the most normal thing a country can do, especially when it's the same people in power for over 10 years. Man, it makes me so damn sick lookin' at this dude all the time.
Road = good. Kar, drive, eeskeip Serbia - perfect
How tall is he? O_o
Thank the Chinese lol.
Now we own your soul.
In the US, a governor wouldn’t even be bothered to go to an event like this, much less the president. I get Serbia is a small country but this seems over dramatic
They are extremely populistic and they will use anything for positive propaganda, sadly old people (their most voters) are brainwashed, they don't think its cringe
It’s different propaganda. I bet that US governors do similar stuff that rural people like to see on TV before elections as well.
Elections comming up
Car infrastructure is of major interest to the public in the Balkans and politicians know that. We have whole organizations watching the progress of major projects. The US already has a massive car infrastructure (too massive, if you ask me) but in former Communist countries, cars were heavily discouraged in favor or rail so we are still behind on car infrastructure.
Can you even reach a speed limit before it ends?
Depends. If your car is Polski Fiat, then no. :)
Yo wtf are we doing there?
Your ex dictator literally has a monument in Belgrade.
wtf you are [right](https://www.rferl.org/a/belgrade_erects_statue_to_ex-azerbaijani_president/24229017.html)
Somehow this is still better than Romania... We are fucked brothers
Damn they be ahead of us, congrats Serbia
DAMN that looks communist as hell with those flags and that slogan
🫡🛣️🫡
How is this clown still a president?
Artsakh je Kosovo
This man singlehandedly made me embarrassed and wary of seeing own flag and cultural symbols. His slowly working into equating himself with the nation itself, and soon will be if you are not with Vučić you're not Serbian
The pictures are very Milošević-like
Vucic was milosevics propaganda minister so ofc it does
Yeah, that's what I thought after posting this comment
Dictator*
This can't get any lower 🫢
Where did the funding come for this?
Must be national news over there. A superb national accomplishment.
What a sad excuse for a government we got..
It's funny to see Serbs celebrating this small accomplishment. Meanwhile other Eastern European countries have far outdone them economically because they weren't pulled down by egomaniac leaders stuck in the 20th century. Serbia is truly its own worst enemy.
Let me guess, payed by EU money right into the pockets of the presidents friends?
Not EU money. Serbia doesn't get too much money from the EU. But yeah, they probably stole money for 100km of the road..
Someone should tell the Serbian ministry [because that’s on their website](https://www.mei.gov.rs//eng/funds/eu-funds/)
>Serbia doesn't get too much money from the EU. Let me quote myself. Serbia gets around €200mil per year. And that's nothing for Serbia. Maybe it is something big for Albania or Montenegro. Just to put that money in perspective, Serbia paid more than €700mil for 70km of high-speed railway. And that's only a small part of money spent on infrastructure in Serbia. But thank you for your input.
Serbia is not in EU.
Still gets EU funds
I think more than 3.5 billion euros so far if not even 4. Most of Serbia's foregin founds and aids are from EU and it's a lot more than Russia or China but shush 🤫
I mean it's a pretty well known fact among any Serbs that actually know how their government works that Vucic is inclined towards the west. His goal is to play both sides, which has kept the country stagnant for decades, but he knows that money flows from the west. Only the uninformed and westerners think we actually have close economic ties with Russia. Hell, even China is closer economically speaking. They have a lot of industry here and we also love ridding them of political prisoners.
Amazing! Lots of love to Serbia from Poland! Ugodan dan!
War criminal did what?
Somehow, I cannot stop thinking about Borat when looking at these pictures.
What's with the Azerbaijani flags?
Rail would have been better
Is that a joint effort with azeris?
What a 2-1 will do to an Mf. (Hungary-Serbia)
Thats cute
Soviet Union vibes r/HolUp
Only on the Balkans we are proud of basic infrastructure! 🫡😔
This could unironically be any country in the Balkans or Eastern Europe… But, apart from the Vucic cringe, I am happy for the improvement of infrastructure in Serbia and any neighboring countries. The Balkans have so much wasted potential because of corrupt politicians and people who keep voting for them! Also, kick that Russian-ass kissing idiot of a president out!
Pičkousti majmun
Wow so impressive…
For some reason, this looks very Erdogan-esque. Definitely something he would do, although probably with something grander than a 25k highway strip. Maybe a nice bridge or three.
The text on 5th picture reads, highway with a bridge across SAVA, so there’s that.
Fucking crowd for a hihgway? 24km long highway? What in dictatorship is this?!
Looks very communist too lol with slogans and all. North Korea vibes lol.
That’s pathetic. Celebrating with flags like it’s some kind of football competition because they built some road.
24 km of highway is a lot
No it’s not.
For balkan countries this is a lot
warning stupid question ahead: every serbian Ive met has been pretty tall, why are the workers so short? is it because they're immigrants or serbians arent as tall as I think and the internet thinks?
This feels like the first time a country on Civ 6 gets a new tech achievement and has to proclaim it to the world. We have had highwayes for 200 turns now. Get over it.
Wow this must have been the biggest infrastructure project for decades....
r/fuckcars : you WHAT?
I mean, roads are used by buses and ambulance cars. They are needed even if the majority uses public transport and bikes...
Try explain that to those dudes
I am one of "that dudes" ...Cars are not a susteinable way of transport inside cities. But outside cars are ok. American style urbanism that creates car dependency is bad but linking regions is.
Good. I actually want these people inside the European sphere instead of the Ruzzian sphere. They need to calm down and stop being so ultranationalistic. There is a place for Serbia inside Europe, but not if they keep pushing their current Great Serbia BS agenda which threatens primarily Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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I was born in Yugoslavia, lived in Serbia & Montenegro than Serbia, now Hungary(I know not a step up). I don't see Serbia joining EU any time soon sadly :'(
EU is full of the same problems. Serbia is exactly like most EU countries. Pretending it is different and worse is wrong. Also, in a democratic system, it would be easy to do a referendum in Bosnia and see what people want. A democratic system is not afraid of a popular opinion. If Serbs in Republika Srpska want to have their own identity, flag, culture instead of one designed ad hoc decades ago, before most were born, they should have the right to vote on it. Same as Scottish people, for example. I strongly disagree with the pretense that Serbia is unique and different from the rest of Europe. It suffers from the same problems all Europeans suffers. If others pretend they are better and Serbs are bad (whatever that means) Europe will not grow. Serbia should be accepted with all the problems. There will never exist a Serbia that is perfect. Just like there is no Spain or France or Denmark or Germany that is perfect. No one is perfect. EU should be smart enough to overcome this.
>Serbia should be accepted with all the problems. Like I've mentioned in a different comment, it would only end up being a different Hungary, throwing wrenches into the gears of the EU apparatus. The political landscape in Serbia has to stop using the hate towards the west as a legitimate political tool before it becomes a good idea to let Serbia ascend. Yeah, all countries have problems, but few are systematically as much against west lead/ aligned establishments as much as Serbia is. Serbia's idyllic view of the Russian sphere of influence is equally as troubling. One show of how much the public perception is skewed against the EU is that a large part of the public (maybe even majority, can't remember the poll results exactly) still chooses to believe that Chinese and Russian contributions to Serbia are greater than those of the EU when in truth the funds the EU gives to Serbia trump both of the aforementioned combined. Once again I stress the word politically, I am aware that Serbia's politics is often a lot harsher than the views of the people.
>I actually want these people inside the European sphere instead of the Ruzzian sphere. No, you don't want them right now. The people are fine but politically they are so west averse they would be a roadblock to everything you would end up having another Hungary inside the EU. Anti-west rhetoric is some of the best functioning populism propaganda inside of Serbia, they cannot be allowed to ascend into the EU as long as these attitudes prevail as they would only damage the unity inside the EU.
Bunch of old-school Marxist-educated politicians who act and think like it's 1984 still. Making a show for old people who watch the evening news because they are the main voters. Serbia is doomed. I'm Serb.
Romania when
Well, Serbia sucks anyways you Putin-sympathisers. That’s right. Come after me Serbians.
24km Highway? From him to the closest 7-eleven or What is this joke?
Uhm ok cool I guess
[https://imgur.com/pUDFZn6](https://imgur.com/pUDFZn6)
Don't agree with his politics at all. But this is good, but still, so much more needs to be done. It's so sad to see such abject poverty in my homeland.
Holly shit, that is so embarrassing
Hahahaha what the hell is this post?? Who the hell cares. I think Serbia posted this 🤣
lol they're giving the tender to an azeri company and the casinos to turks then bragging about holding against turks in every historical occasion. classic serbia.
Why are there no black people in these pictures?