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GDJE SE SVE TEK TREBA DOGODITI / WHERE EVERYTHING IS YET TO HAPPEN Ivan Grubanov Transcript of the speech in front of the National Assembly Belgrade, 17 April, 2006. Good evening my friends. Great that you are sharing this square with me once more. Great you are here with me to wish for a new tomorrow. To write another paragraph of our difficult and glorious history. Great that I find you well, my contemporaries, my fellows in arms, my fellows in suffering. Great that I find you well, my brothers and sisters! Remember the excitement, the mission, the faith. Believe one more time, believe together with me, believe me and I promise I will never let you down! Trust me as you trusted everyone who deceived you and lied to you; trust me and we will succeed together. Tomorrow belongs to us and nothing can stand in our way. Together we’ll remove every obstacle. Tomorrow is ours and I am here to take you there! Bitter history this square has seen, while awaiting a new power that can break with the past, look the present straight in the eye and change it into a purer future. But do not think that it is easy to deal with such a foe. The past has haunted us for centuries, it wouldn’t leave us in peace, and it has taken its toll in lives, governing our destinies. The past is our worst enemy! The past has never been so strong, the past has never had so many supporters. The past has inhabited all of our cities. Like mould it has entered the pores of every building, like a river it has flooded beyond its banks. Like an epidemic it has contaminated our organisms. With every word we spit out the past, with every breath a deadly dosis of the past enters our lungs. The past is a dangerous disease! But there is still no cure: the past is incurable! We must protect ourselves, no one else will help us. Spaces contaminated by the past are

now being isolated, and no one goes there without a need. Such spaces aren’t safe for anyone. You must flee from the past! And the present has been under the past’s influence for a long time. The past is deceiving the present. The present can no longer be trusted. The present is merely a puppet, a mercenary of the past. Open your eyes and ears, the present is lying to you. Don’t trust anything happening in front of your eyes, because everything contains the deceptions of the past! The present stands on the unsteady legs of our belief in the past. When we are through with the past, the present will collapse like a house of cards. Only in the future can we trust, only the future can correct all the injustice, only the future can make up for everything that the past and the present have taken away. In the future we can all be equal, in the future we may all get rid of the burden of this heritage, in the future we can win all our lost battles! But the future won’t come of its own accord, we must be strong and create room for it. We must know how to. And that’s why, dear friends, I’m here with you today. I will tell you how to: We need a new beginning. We must start everything all over again. We mustn’t just leave the past behind us, we must completely forget about it. If all of us forget about it, no one will be able to charge us with it. If all of us completely erase it, there won’t be any evidence that it ever existed. If we take a new face and a new name, we will be fresh and ready for a new beginning. We must conceive our own future, we mustn’t let the past condition it. We need a new and fresh future, and that’s why we ourselves need to be new and fresh. In order to sever every link with what has been, not to acknowledge anything that has happened, to believe only in the things that are going to happen. In order to be new and clean, and no one’s pawn and free! GDJE SE SVE TEK TREBA DOGODITI / WHERE EVERYTHING IS YET TO HAPPEN

GDJE SE SVE TEK TREBA DOGODITI / WHERE EVERYTHING IS YET TO HAPPEN<br />

I<strong>van</strong> Grubanov<br />

Transcript of the speech in front of the National Assembly<br />

Belgrade, 17 April, 2006.<br />

Good evening my friends. Great that you are sharing this square with me once more.<br />

Great you are here with me to wish <strong>for</strong> a new tomorrow. To write another paragraph of<br />

our difficult <strong>and</strong> glorious history.<br />

Great that I find you well, my contemporaries, my fellows in arms, my fellows in suffering.<br />

Great that I find you well, my brothers <strong>and</strong> sisters!<br />

Remember the excitement, the mission, the faith. Believe one more time, believe together<br />

with me, believe me <strong>and</strong> I promise I will never let you down!<br />

Trust me as you trusted everyone who deceived you <strong>and</strong> lied to you; trust me <strong>and</strong> we will<br />

succeed together.<br />

Tomorrow belongs to us <strong>and</strong> nothing can st<strong>and</strong> in our way. Together we’ll remove every<br />

obstacle.<br />

Tomorrow is ours <strong>and</strong> I am here to take you there!<br />

Bitter history this square has seen, while awaiting a new power that can break with the<br />

past, look the present straight in the eye <strong>and</strong> change it into a purer future.<br />

But do not think that it is easy to deal with such a foe. The past has haunted us <strong>for</strong><br />

centuries, it wouldn’t leave us in peace, <strong>and</strong> it has taken its toll in lives, governing our<br />

destinies.<br />

The past is our worst enemy!<br />

The past has never been so strong, the past has never had so many supporters.<br />

The past has inhabited all of our cities. Like mould it has entered the pores of every<br />

building, like a river it has flooded beyond its banks. Like an epidemic it has contaminated<br />

our organisms. With every word we spit out the past, with every breath a deadly dosis<br />

of the past enters our lungs.<br />

The past is a dangerous disease!<br />

But there is still no cure: the past is incurable!<br />

We must protect ourselves, no one else will help us. Spaces contaminated by the past are

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