LDP u poseti Švedskoj

Nenad Prokić i Nebojša Ranđelović su boravili u poseti Švedskoj. U Stokholmu su se susreli sa Martinom Angebijem, Generalnim sekretarom SILC-a i Internacionalnim sekretarom Folkpartiet Frederikom Svensonom, kao i članovima Parlamenta. Poseta je nastavljena u Lundsbrunu, gde je upriličen susret sa liberalima Zapadne Švedske, na njihovom velikom godišnjem susretu. Nenad Prokić je dao intervju časopisu “Tidnignen NU”, a zatim se obratio prisutnim i prigodnim govorom.

Nakon završetka govora Nenada Prokića usledio je impozantni petominutni aplauz svih prisutnih. Redakcija portala www.ldp.rs vam prenosi prevod dela govora Nenada Prokića kao i kompletan govor na engleskom jeziku.

Prevod dela transkripta govora Nenada Prokića u Lundsbrunnu, Švedska, na godišnjem skupu Liberala Zapadne Švedske, 31. januar 2010

“Liberalno-demokratsku partiju osnovali smo kao dobronamerni konzilujum, kako ubistvo premijera Đinđića ne bi bitno promenilo sudbinu Srbije. Od samog početka je, ta nova stranka u konfuznom političkom lavirintu Srbije, najavila dramatično drugačiju politiku od svih ostalih političkih subjekata u zemlji. Dok je na referendumu nakon proglašavanja kosovske nezavisnosti donošen Ustav koji je bio čista sramota iz tri razloga: načina, razloga i karaktera, i u kojem prva rečenica u preambuli glasi da je, već otuđeno Kosovo, neotuđivi deo Srbije – LDP je ukazivao na prvu rečenicu u preambuli Švajcarskog ustava, gde gotovo poetski piše: “Kroz uvažavanje različitosti, okrenuti smo ka budućnosti”… Bila je to, dakle, poezija od sasvim druge vrste.

Sve probleme, a bilo ih je mnogo, sagledavali smo iz nepristrasnog ugla, oštro i odlučno, bez kompromisa sa suštinom, ali spremni na saradnju sa svima, pogotovo kad je reč o najprečem poslu, koji se u zemlji morao sa velikim zakašnjenjem obaviti – velikom poslu koji čeka srpsko društvo na putu ka članstvu u EU. Postali smo ledolomci, terali smo druge da se probude, kao kada štuku ubacite u bazen sa ugojenim šaranima. Onaj ko se ne menja vremenom – izumire u prirodi. To se odnosi i na narode. A svaki narod dobija onoliko koliko se i kako se angažuje. Niko vam ne poklanja slobodu i dobrobit.

Odmah smo ušli u parlament, pa zatim na prevremenim izborima još jednom. Manjinski podržavamo vlast u prestonici, Beogradu, postali smo nezaobilazna politička činjenica. Primljeni smo u ELDR. Ukinute su vize građanima Srbije nakon 18 godina, relaksirali smo pitanje Kosova, odmrznuti su prsitupni poslovi sa EU i podneta molba za prisajedinjenje. Ono što je pre tri godine bio ekstremizam LDP, sada je državna politika, doduše još uvek sramežljiva. Sve to ne smatram toliko pobedom LDP-a, koliko pobedom demokratskog potencijala Srbije.

Srbiji je danas potrebna intelektualna revolucija, kako ne bi više nikada svojeo dsustvo iz svakodnevnog života nadoknađivala velikim datumima iz svoje istorije. I danas poručujemo iz LDP retrogradnim snagama u Srbiji da ćemo im neprestano biti nepodnošljivi opominjači i da nikada neće uspeti sve da nas ućutkaju, sakriju od građana ili ubiju. Bezbednost reformatorima u Srbiji nikad nije bila zagarantovana, bezobzira da li su pravili pozorište ili su se priključivali svetskoj kreativnoj i modernoj misli. To nas neće sprečiti da nastavimo sa angažmanom za koji smo sigurni da će jednog dana dati obilne plodove. Jer, za koju od te dve Srbije ima više mesta, u svetu u kojem otac mobilnim telefonom slika svoje tek novorođeno dete i to pošalje celom svetu za desetak sekundi? Globalizacija je ipak mnogo bolja od hladnog rata…”

Mr. Nenad Prokić, LDP Serbia, Transcript, Lundsbrunn, Sweden, Jan 31, 2010:

Good morning to our Liberal Brotherhood and Sisterhood. On behalf of our delegation I would like to thank you for the invitation, and to wish to you a very good work here in Lundsbrunn. This is not my first time in Scandinavia, but it is my first time in Sweden. My image of Sweden was exactly like this one: plenty of snow, cold weather but warm and nice people.

My speech here will be about Western East of Europe, and about integration of disentigrated.

The Balkans are nothing more but Europe with greater rpm (revolutions per minute). Smaller areas, smaller nations, but in a greater number than in Europe, even stronger heterogeneity, religious, cultural, linguistic variety, even more inherited tensions and sources of conflict, more thesis on historical heritage.

All this is publicly praised as a wealth of heterogeneity, advantage of diversity, maximum variedness. In practice, it is an absence of clear identity, the result of which is a lack of any chance of independent local, cultural, economic and political integration. If there is no such chance, we are just waiting in the anteroom of Western European integration, above all, to our own detriment. Maybe, some Ottoman Union should fit better to our frame of life, but there is no such an effort in the region.

This is the identity crisis and it is not unexpected, because the Balkans are a puzzling phenomenon. Many believe that it means something, but do not agree what it could be at this moment. This is not the East of Europe any more. Some claim since recently that the Balkans are now the Southeast of Europe or the Western East of Europe. Multitude small iron, but also golden borders, which are perhaps more insurmountable, have created out of this territory an intricate phantasmagoria, political and historical, conceptual and ideological, and what is most difficult – cultural. The contours of the Balkans can still be recognized in the roofs, the wines, the smells, the curses; however, its definition is still best presented by its crashes and the price it had paid for it.

The people living there, actually, without their homeland – within this compulsory freedom, have too often experienced that everything is obliterated without trace. Their today differs so much from their yesterday, their ups and downs are so different, that it seems to them often that they had lived not just one, but several existences – mutually utterly different. A catalogue of all these revolutions, putsches, wars, inflation, famine, terror, crashes, epidemics and emigration, the list of all these catastrophes cannot be encompassed any more. They continuously had to throw themselves on the altar of the most stupid politics, to adapt to the most fantastic changes; they were always chained to this pitiful common destiny, where the state rarely lasts longer than an individual. Everything that remained from this entire past is what one held in the head – everything else was lost irretrievably. One could save himself only by cunningness and fleeing. Yet, in the immediate vicinity unique lives were going on, without sudden crashes, without extreme danger, with well-ordered houses, carpet lawns in front of the castle, with Christmas trees with colored decorations, with vineyards nurtured by generations and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; lives with small anxieties, imperceptible transitions of uniform rhythm, comfortably and quietly from the cradle to the grave.

The decisive question that is being raised today is: does everyone on the Balkans wish to become Western Europe, are they aware of what this means, what interventions have to be made, how great the efforts are, and how small and gradual the results? It is perhaps even more important whether Europe is ready to become the homeland of all homelands, that will be free and equal? The answer to this second question is that Europe is still very far from such an option. The predominating characteristic of First Europe, i.e. so called Western, when comparing with the Second or Third Europe, i.e. towards the Balkans – is the relation of permanent distance. The recipes offered by the big powers are not good for the smaller countries, they suppress them and use them. The problem lies in the fact that the Balkan countries, in order to make up for the delay, have to make grave concessions. The price that each of these countries has to pay as compensation for delay will perhaps be too high for many, which can influence the weakening of its internal power.

If we, however, look with an unbiased lenses at the situation Western Europe is in, particularly in light of the diverging with America on the Iraq issue and the marginalization of United Nations, as well as the fact that this part of Europe is rapidly aging – meaning also less population capable of working, meaning also less production and consumption, meaning also recessions and a blow at the main capitalist values, i.e. jealous guarding of the won positions – then one must foresee also the policy of the environment that will accordingly be burdened.

The neoliberal globalization will also bring and intensify social diversity, as well as increase unemployment. As a monopolist, however, the European Union will always dictate the terms, and that is why it is better to be in it. Thus, regardless of the fact that the idyllic stories of Europe are not quite true, the Balkans must integrate into a world system, which is undergoing a crisis. Those that have experienced isolation once, know best that it is not naive at all and that they should never permit themselves to be in a situation like that again, in spite of the semi-colonial politics peeking behind the Brussels’s decisions. This is reality, both European and Balkan. If one takes into consideration all the additional confusions made by the American so called preventive wars – the situation is additionally complicated and exacerbated. It is to be expected that the America will be the region where greatest changes will take place. When a butterfly flutters its wings in China it is reflected in California, because everything is connected. What is yet to happen when the enormous industrial-military American complex starts changing? And when the dust from the Chinese construction fields reach our shores? Not to mention Russian neoimperialistic tendencies…

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I would like to restrict myself to something that would be an attempt at defining the current situation in one of the Balkan countries, the very one I come from, and which had succeeded in such a boiling kettle to impose itself with its negative aspects. I am talking about Serbia.

The Kingdom of Serbia gained its Western legitimacy back in 1918 in Versailles, but after that chance which is so rarely offered, it established a project of its own anti-modernization. This way, Serbia did not use either its European or Balkan chances – because it conceived itself as contrary to the idea of Europe in general. The situation in Yalta went fifty-fifty, and it was not enough for the decisive change and severance of the umbilical chord with the Orient. A chance of sort again appeared in late eighties, but was smoothly passed over. Instead of the European integration, where Yugoslavia, after a kitten-paw-soft communism, appeared as a logical first candidate – there was a fatal internal disintegration of the country. The fall of the Berlin Wall brought many together and tore asunder others. Or, the Berlin wall seems not to have fallen, but just shifted its location. Serbia entered, all on its own, into a cataclysmic stage of anti-modernization. This process was supported by all of its institutions with the great boost from the nation. This chasm between modernization and bad tradition is still present in Serbia. Actually, it needs a Copernican turnabout.

Namely, there is nothing more dangerous than when the small suffer from the madness of grandeur. This applies to individuals as well as to entire nations. For this very reason in the Serbian society had been created the fattest criminal-clerical-post-communist-nationalist monster, because such things do not happen by accident. This is a monster with several heads, some larger, some smaller, but not one of them will fall off by itself. That is why the honest and true patriotically oriented intellectuals in Serbia always had to exceed themselves and those similar to themselves in the entire world, and finally, burn out. Because they are trying to compensate something for everyone else. This is not completely possible, but every such attempt pulls forward more than anything else in the unfortunate societies. Anyway, in our civilization survives just a very thin stratum which can easily be punctured at any moment by the destructive forces of the underground.

It is therefore, not enough for a Copernican turnabout to uproot major crime and remove the mafia from the political scene. The disintegration of the basic civilization values has gone deep into the texture of the Serbian society in the past decades. The path of European integrations in the late eighties, was taken by just those countries of the former Eastern block whose population was determined in favor of this process by acclamation. Such countries also had their nationalists, their communists, crypto-Stalinists, criminals and the usual Balkan baggage. Nevertheless, a distinct majority was clearly determined and that was decisive. If the country also had a stable ethnic situation – there was no problem. The situation in Serbia was not such. The ethnic problems of former Yugoslavia and Serbia are well known and since they could not be an advantage, they became a destroying element. Nevertheless, when discussing the decisive situation of the lack of the existing majority in favor of European integration in late eighties in Serbia, it is necessary to emphasize that it mostly did not exist, because such integration was not supported by the political elite of the times, which pushed the country later into a dictatorship and war. What is more tragic is that important institutions opted for bad traditional, instead of changes. We are talking about the army, church, Academy of Science, cultural institutions…. the academicians invented the leader, the army and the police supported them, as well as a whole strata of false patriots, actually criminals and war profiteers. The mixing of such a disgusting broth was made possible by the lack of a backup concept in the society, which would be used after the fall of communism. This means that the social elite failed in conceiving it. The church provided an additional hindrance, for it had been anti-modern for ages and opposing the Western European Vatican-Protestant inventions; the fat generals in panic were just capable of firing at the cities and people which they were supposed to defend; and the police, both public and secret, momentarily sunk into crime.

All this indicates a severe identity crisis in Serbia, much stronger than the crisis of some Balkan identity. One can interpret by this same identity crisis the fact that the assassinated Prime Minister of Serbia has an immeasurably greater support by the nation now when he is dead, than while he was alive. This is an undisputable proof that the Serbs still have more trust in myths than in facts. The gesture of martyrdom and victim is highly ranked in Serbia and the Serbs never hesitate to demand it from their most noble leaders. In order for his ideas to triumph, the dead Prime Minister must now be stronger than his own myth the Serbs are going to create. In such an identity crisis, it was very easy in the past period to manipulate the masses, push through idiotic ideas, trash and other freak cultural models, nationalism and fascism, false patriotism and proclaim stupidity and misfortune as wisdom and luck – and all this finally end in the disintegration of moral values. Quarrelling with everyone, obstinacy detrimental to one’s own self and dictatorship by mentally disturbed leaders lasted till yesterday. Today, Serbia is where everyone else had been in 1989, but not where it stood itself that same year. In order to achieve this, it will need a lot more time, and at the same time Serbia has to be prepare itself for integration faster and more successfully than others, in order to remain in the game at all.

For this whole job to be performed a comprehensive change of the cultural model is inevitable and essential, a change of the promoted ethics, change of behavior which reaches as far as the way one crosses the street. In short, a break with all forms and causes that had led to a degraded, degenerated and hermetically closed society. And: Serbia is the candidate for the EU with the genocide in the suitcase.

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Exactly for all these reasons we have founded the Liberal Democratic Party; we have founded it as a well-intentioned consilium so that the assassination of the Prime Minister Mr. Djindjic would not essentially change the destiny of Serbia. From the very beginning, the new party, in the confusing political labyrinth of Serbia, has announced a dramatically different policy from all other political subjects in the country. After the proclamation of the independence of Kosovo, while there was ongoing referendum on the approval of the new Constitution, which was a sheer shame for three reasons: the manner how, the motive why and its character, and in which the first sentence of the preamble said that already alienated Kosovo is an unalienable part of Serbia – LDP was pointing out the first sentence of the preamble of the Swiss Constitution where, almost poetically, it was written: “Though mutual respect and recognition of our diversities we are facing the future…” It was, therefore, the poetry of a completely different kind.

All the problems, and there was many, we have perceived from an independent angle, keenly and resolutely, without compromising the essence, but ready to cooperate with everybody, especially when it dealt with the question of the utmost significance, which, in already big delay, had to be resolved – an enormous amount of work awaiting Serbian society on its way to the membership of the EU. We have become icebreakers, have made others wake up, as if someone has thrown a pike into a pool full of fatten carps. The one who does not change in time becomes extinct in nature. It relates to peoples, too. Each people receives as much as the proportion and manner of its engagement allow it. No one gives you freedom and well-being as a present.

We had entered the Parliament right away and than once again, after the extraordinary elections. As a minority we support the authorities of the capital city of Belgrade and have become an unavoidable political factor. We have been accepted into the LDR. After 18 years of visa requirements for the citizens of Serbia are abolished, we have relaxed the question of Kosovo, the admission with the EU are defrosted and the application for admission to the EU submitted. That, which, three years ago, meant the extremism of the LDP, now become the state policy, nevertheless still timidly. I do not consider it to be exclusively the victory of LDP, but, the victory of the democratic values of Serbia.

Serbia today needs an intellectual revolution, so that never again its absence from the everyday life will be compensated through its historic dates. And today, we are sending the word from LDP to the retrograde forces in Serbia that we shall incessantly be the unbearable warning markers and that will never manage to silent us, to hide us from other citizens or to kill us. Security has never been guaranteed to the reformers of Serbia, irrespective of either they have founded the theatre or joined the world creative and modern political and any other thought. That will not prevent us from continuing our engagement, which one day, we are sure of it, shall bring abundant fruits. For which one of the two Serbias is there more space in the world, in which a father, by mobile phone, makes a photo of his newborn baby and sends it to everyone in the world, in only ten seconds? The globalization, however, is much better than the cold war.

As I had been vaccinated at one moment with mistrust against the infection of patriotic enthusiasm that had shaken many on the Balkans, I take the right not to be idyllically overwhelmed with transition either, nor integrations taking place today. It looks too much as though everything starts well in the world, and ends bad. Remember Zweig and his book “The World of Yesterday”, which reminds us of something quite fantastic in the present world of fingerprints, visas, police certificates and general mistrust: that he traveled before 1914 from Europe to America and India without a passport. He simply did not need it.

Nevertheless, I have to say this as well: the older I am, the life seems to me more and more precious. We are living in a wonderful world, and its Western part, this quintessence of injustice, the land of holly miracles, is still the best society of all that had existed until now. And the last western miracle is the Union made on piece. All previous unions were made on wars. Those undergoing transition in order to integrate with it, should never forget that.

Nenad Prokic

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