Prologue

APPROACHING THE SECOND DECADE OF THE ”NATIONAL REVIEW”
The Sixtieth Time

Before us is the sixtieth edition of Serbia. National Review, behind us are ten years of dedicated work. We will not add up hundreds of editions, thousands of articles, millions of kilometers traveled. We will not exaggerate wounds and polish medals. We will no longer wonder that there are still those to whom we need to explain who we are and what it is that we are doing.
These days we have received a letter in which a renowned association thanks us for the ”permanent convincing commitment to a responsible attitude towards the preservation of Serbian language and the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as for compliance with Article 10 of the Constitution of Serbia”. Have we really become a country and culture in which one should be thanked for something as normal as this? Does really a simple willingness to just be yourself deserves recognition? What does this tell us about the situation into which we have descended?
We also received a reprimand. Art director of a well-known marketing agency resents us for giving too harsh a comment about the project of Latinization of Serbia. It is not, he says, about engineering and program of postmodern occupation; the thing is practical, because the Latin script can more easily reach a large number of people. To what extent this reasoning is unfounded and hypocritical is best seen in election campaigns (and another one is about to begin). Even extreme globalist party, and the separatist ones, and those led by unabashed Kosovo-Albanian lobbyists, use only Cyrillic on billboards and in commercials. When they really want to reach the minds and hearts of the people, to get closer to them and be liked by them, there is no Roman alphabet. They use it only where they can impose and model with the terror of repetitions.
In the election campaigns and before that last gate, at cemeteries, Cyrillic dominates. Why?