Predrag Marković: 'When the going gets rough, Serbs are the best.'

And we are often perfectly right to do so. The past was no different – in the late 20 th century, two great writers, Radoje Domanović and Vladislav Petković Dis, painted a very dark picture of our country – the former in Land of Tribulation (Stradija), and the latter in Our Days (Naši Dani). It was a country ruled by sycophants and ignoramuses, rife with "scum, debauchery, and vice," where "all the perfidious, wicked, and small-minded people hold the reins." A few