Revenge on the Serbs for their own crimes: Why exactly are the Germans "brandishing" us?

That is why Berlin cares so much that they remain remembered as the main initiators of the document that tries to stamp the mark of "genocide" on the Serbian people. This is why they have been so strongly engaged in lobbying for the document's passage in the past months.

This is how Novosti's interlocutors see the diplomatic offensive of Germany, which tried in every way through regular channels, but also below the "belt", to deal a blow to Serbia on the East River during the vote at the United Nations General Assembly.

And in her strategy of pressure to get as many countries as possible on her side, the German head of diplomacy, Analenna Baerbock, had a free hand and used threats and blackmail in talks with officials of countries whose decision to vote in the UN was on the "seesaw".

The behavior of the German diplomats in New York showed that in their "equation" of justice, there is no room for the word Serbia to be heard in any calculation. President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, confirmed that our permanent representative at the UN wanted to talk to the Germans about the text itself, whether something could be changed and refined, but that the answer was:

"You will face the resolution in the way we want you to".

"I know, we are too small, but we believe that European values and democratic values will always mean that we should all be involved in the process of passing such important resolutions," said Vučić.

Academician and historian Ljubodrag Dimić explains that the resolution itself is the creation of untruths about a people and that it is in itself an act of genocide, persecution and inadmissible distortion of the past and cancellation of the future of a people.

"Germany is shamefully trying to forget what it did in its history," Dimić told "Novosti".

"It is an easy attempt, but success is not easy and it will not be. According to the experience of the Serbian people from the First and Second World Wars, this experience with the Germans will be even stronger, that they unmistakably know from which side the danger threatens, regardless of the good economic relations that we have with them. There is one constant in German foreign policy, and that constant comes to the surface. With all the seriousness that such an act carries, the frivolity of the arguments will lead to it being very forgotten quickly."

Historian Dr. Aleksandar Raković cites revanchism as the main reason why the Germans were firmly resolved in their intention to put the Serbs in the "genocide" category.

"They want to get revenge on the Serbs because they inflicted defeats on them when the Germans were the aggressors against the Serbian people," Raković claimed for our newspaper.

"The second reason is to wash away the Nazi past, not only for crimes in the Second World War, they also committed them in the First World War, but also by breaking up socialist Yugoslavia.

Germany has an unquenchable desire to take revenge on the Serbs, to punish them for the libertarian intentions of the people who wants to lead a sovereign and independent policy without the imposition of foreign powers.

According to historian Predrag Marković, the accusation of genocide was cunningly made, as was the atmosphere in which it was brought, that, as he explains, if you do not vote for the resolution, it turns out that you are not against genocide.

"The word genocide has experienced real inflation lately, perhaps precisely with the intention of devaluing what happened, for example, in Auschwitz," Marković told RTS.

"The symbolic weight of that resolution is huge, because very rarely are countries accused of genocide, like Rwanda, where 800,000 people were killed. The Holocaust was not declared a genocide, and this is a twisted event, because it is happening 30 years after the war. It is the same as if the Poles would initiate a lawsuit against Germany. There is nothing benevolent in that resolution."

Historian Momčilo Pavlović assessed that the resolution does not contribute to Bosnia and Herzegovina overcoming the legacy of the internal conflict in the former Yugoslavia and that the international community, especially the elites in large countries such as Germany, invest more in conflicts and less in peace.

When asked why the resolution was initiated at this very moment, he said that everything seems to him to be "a culture of revenge, which is not visible, but gives results".

"There is the independent policy of the Serbian leadership, then the connection of those policies with the policies of some EU members, then the Serbian policy that manifests itself in different segments, and attracts the attention of all the former Yugoslav republics," said Pavlović.

"There is also Serbia's attitude towards the war in Ukraine, the regional policy of the Serbian leadership - "Open Balkans", which is essentially a sound idea, but which does not produce results. And the final reason is that Serbia does not recognize the imposed solution in Kosovo, which is the German solution of two Germanys.

It is not the same, it may be convenient, but it does not correspond to reality. When you take it all, you can see why the resolution has been brought right now."

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