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3-TO CONNECT THE PEOPLE OF SIMILAR OR SAME STANDPOINTS AND
THUS DESTROY VEŠTAĈKE AND IMPOSED BARRIERS BETWEEN OUR
NATIONS
4-TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY OF THE LIFE AND UNIVERSAL WORK OF
MARSHALL TITO
5-TO RAISE THE TRUTH AGAINST REHABILITATION OF FASCISTS AN ALL
DOMESTIC TRAITORS WHICH TODAY REPRESENTS A GENERAL AND
WORRYING PHENOMENON IN THE REGION
8-TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFICULT SITUATION OF THE WORKING
CLASS,FARMERS,INTELLECTUALS ,YOUTH AND RETIREES IN THE
VAMPIRISED BOURGOUISE-MAFIA-ROBBING ECONOMY
9-TO CREATE A COMMON FRONT AGAINST
NATIONALISM,PRIMITIVISM,CLERICAL FASCISM,THEFT AND ALL THE BAD
THINGS THAT WE‘RE ECPERIENCING TODAY...........
10-TO FOLLOW UP ON THE LATEST POLITICAL,ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL
DEVELOPMENTS IN ALL APRTS OF Yugoslav TERRITORY.......... 356
The task is a comprehensive one, one that at first sight raises doubt whether the communications
platform such as Facebook can actually prove a feasible technological solution for their realisation
in full. Or, to be more precise, can Facebook as a technology (e.g. the historical profiles) offer a
‗proper‘ solution at all—or as Evgeny Morozov calls it, a technological fix—to remedy the
apparent unease transfixing post-Yugoslav cultural and political levels still heavily burdened by
the collapse of the country and its wholesale substitution with ‗freedom and democracy.‘ 357
Particularly, for instance, in terms of educating the youth about the everyday life, politics and
culture in SFRY; about the once prominent values and the Yugoslav ideology that in the time was
mythologised and remains no less mythical today. The concern that comes to mind is whether and
how a Facebook profile can facilitate activities that would involve what in the pre-digital thinking
was considered a detailed study of ‗serious‘ sources. This however, seems to be beyond the scope
of profiles which overtly try to keep things (posts) ‗simple,‘ but rather serve as an
invitation/stimulation for further interrogation on the part of the visitor (the extent to which this is
(not) done seems questionable).
Overall, the SFR Jugoslavija mission statement is a very proactive programmatic summary of a
radically emotional stance both toward the past, the present and the future of post-Yugoslavia. It
proposes the visitor to consider the entire post-WWII history and also post-Yugoslav political
realities; the former through the latter, and vice versa. Extending the exclusively Yugoslav aspect
of the profile, the admins propose to counter the rehabilitation of fascists and collaborators
(alluding as they do, to the more European-wide phenomena); even more, promoting a humanistic
356 SFR Jugoslavija – SFR Yugoslavia, ―Info,‖ http://www.facebook.com/?sk=lf#!/pages/SFR-Jugoslavija-SFR-
Yugoslavia/36436743833?sk=info, accessed 4 August 2011.
357 See Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion, 301–315.
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