In one protest against Milošević, for example, Otpor! activists in the Serbian town of Kragujevac took white flowers—which represented the dictator’s despised wife, who had worn a plastic one in her hair every day—and stuck them onto the heads of turkeys, a bird whose Serbian name is one of the worst things you can call a woman. The freshly accessorized turkeys were then let loose in the streets of Kragujevac, and the public was treated to a comical display of Milošević’s ferocious policemen running around and foolishly tripping over themselves as the birds scattered and squawked all over the
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