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1. What was the name of the country in the south of Europe that fell apart in 1991?
a) Yugoslovakia,
b) Yugoslavia,
c) Slovenakia.

2. What was the name of the inhabitants of that country?
a) The Yugoslavs,
b) the Mungoslavs,
c) the Slavoyugs.

3. Where do these people, whose country has disappeared, live now?
a) They are no longer alive,
b) They are barely alive,
c) They have moved to another country.

4. What should people who have moved to another country do?
a) They should integrate,
b) They should disintegrate,
c) They should move to yet another country.

1994

Milan Mladenović who died at the end of 1994 never saw his last album released. Angel’s Breath was recorded in the spring of 1994 by Milan and Mitar Subotić - Suba in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
The tracks captured Milan’s chilling lyrics, Suba’s instrumentals and the echos of the apocalyptic world of 1994 Serbia in which Milan lived like a ghost. For no song is this more true than for Crv (Worm in English), where Milan hisses at his countrymen:
"Blind and deaf, you selfish people. Making noise with no order or sense. With no why and no because, with no who for and no how. Without the question that perhaps might dry the proud smile on a tearless face, on the face that has never turned a face.
You mute performers of your ritual dance. You, happy in trance, in the world that exists only in the heads of the people that have no scruples, people that possess no mercy, people that have no memory. You who know no splashes of sound, color and smell… You people possessing no sense.
A scar, a case and a worm. A face and hair and blood.
You people possessing no mercy."
Milan’s last will and testament.

Charlie Chaplin nevermore, nevermore

A second (bonus) post today, for today is also a commemoration day for the late state that once stretched from Vardar to Triglav. The commemoration day itself is no more. Gone also is the man whose birthday was meant to be commemorated on this day.
There will come a time when we will be the last men standing. The last to have borne witness. Once even we are gone, that land will finally become a matter of dust and books.
So please send in whatever of that time you think should not ever, ever be forgotten. Or send that which comes to you as the very first association. I will collect and return it to you.
Myself, I bear witness to Šarlo Akrobata (in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the 1930s Šarlo Akrobata was the Serbian name for Charlie Chaplin). Because the members of the band were Milan Mladenović, Ivica Vdović Vd and Dušan Kojić Koja, who each went on to become what is now three times a legend. Because these legends continue to stretch and linger in the entire space that was once the land from Vardar to Triglav. But Koja is the last man standing.