With establishing of Yugoslav kingdom, the hopes for transition to democracy were quickly quelled first by establishing of royal dictatorship and then with the Second World War. After the war, Serbia was included in communist Yugoslavia - yet another dictatorial rule based on the cult of personality. Milosevic, the ruler of Serbia, and the menace of the Balkans, is the last leader to survive unchallenged by the democratic change that swept the Balkans region. As if the Serbs simply do not know how to get rid off him. The mechanisms of democratic change are missing.
Power only changes hands if opposed by stronger power.
And nobody can match Milosevic. Yet, in 1996 his party lost the local elections in many municipalities and when he rejected the results, he was faced with street protests that lasted for days - until he finally, grudgingly accepted that partial defeat. This was an important victory for democracy in Serbia and an important lesson for Serbian youth, who carried the street protests bravely on their backs, that democratic change is, indeed, possible and that they were the instrumental of it. They refuse to take shit about the impossibility of change both from their politicians and from the international community pundits - young people know that they have to get rid off Milosevic for their own good, and they are very serious about it, and they will, ultimately, succeed in that. Because they can t be stopped effectively.