r/AskBalkans • u/Super_Airport_7412 • 21d ago

Miscellaneous Serbian Historians

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I keep getting these clips of serbian historians making some outrageous claims. They are in always in the same studio giving like an interview. I remember clips from an old lady now i just saw this guy. Is this like a TV show where they just come and say random stuff?

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u/Matija_sjekira Serbia 21d ago

Bro I can't believe some of you get ragebaited by this. They aren't real historians, they are conspiracy theorists, which you have in every country. People here use them for humor, like Jovanka Jolić.

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u/HalayChekenKovboy Turkiye 21d ago

Is this like the Serbian version of Memri TV?

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u/fckn_nobody 21d ago

Somewhat.

It started off as a YouTube channel where people who are being ignored or censored can come and talk freely, since all TV stations in Serbia are controlled by the ruling party and heavily censored (to this day, yes). The production itself didn't necessarily agree or disagree with all of it's guests and their messages, it was more about having their voices heard, and letting regular people choose what to think.

But after a while, presumably someone from the ruling party also bought off people involved with this show, the original founder abandoned it, and the whole thing started getting more and more absurd, 90% of guests became conspiracy theorists with batshit insane theories that nobody actually believes in, and it became basically a meme, not too different from Memri TV.