Its collection of vintage tanks and artillery cannons are a playground for children. In years past, May Day events orchestrated by Slobodan Milosevic and his loyalists in Yugoslavia brimmed with communist rhetoric and Serbian nationalism. Politics and pretense were the order of the day. Not this year, not with Milosevic behind bars. And if the majority of Belgrade residents have their way, May Day will never be as pretentious as it was under the so-called Butcher of the Balkans.
People say they are tired of politics.
Progress and promise is what matters. We expect our child to have a future. On Tuesday, the Bojovics and thousands of other Yugoslavs were enjoying their first May Day without Milosevic, who was arrested in early April six months after being voted out of office. The only political activity in Kalemegdan Park, where the Bojovics were relaxing, was the distribution of leaflets by the Social Democratic Union, which is part of the ruling coalition. Instead of demonstrating, people in the Yugoslav capital were basking in the warm sun.