Dacic: Socialists Disagree with Historical Revisionism

Ivica Dacic, Belgrade, July 17 2023 (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

Serbia’s Minister of Interior Affairs and leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia Ivica Dacic, said on Oct. 14 that his party does not agree with Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic’s “revisionist approach to history.”

In a statement for Prva TV, Dacic underscored that the matter is irrelevant to the coalition between the Socialists and the Serbian Progressive Party, to which Sapic belongs, adding that the divergence in opinion is “being blow out of proportion by the press” and is actually “not a big deal.”

“I don’t want to argue and would not make a big issue out of this. We don’t support ideas that lean toward revising the narrative of our past. Some opinions we even agree with. I myself have spoken of the Communist Party’s wrong policies toward Serbian national interests. But those times are in the past and the policies have been rectified,” Dacic explained.

Mayor Sapic recently announced that all public transportation vehicles less than two years old would be painted blue, while older vehicles would remain red, “which is the color of Communism,” until they are “naturally” phased out from Belgrade’s streets.

Sapic had also previously suggested removing Josip Broz Tito’s remains from the House of Flowers, located on the grounds of the capital’s Museum of Yugoslavia.