And look at him now, cavorting with the western leaders who bombed Serbia last year. Boy how fast amnesia can set in. It wouldn't be the first time that masses have been duped. Millions also marched and cheered the communists 40 years ago, and Milosevic 10 years ago. Reactions like that were irresistibly reminiscent of those this writer used to get in 1990, when he first criticized Milosevic, then even a bigger darling of the Serbian nation than Kostunica is today.
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. At a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Peoples, once accustomed to masters, are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they estrange themselves even more from freedom.