At one point, as their movement was gaining steam, Belgrade activists announced that they would undertake an audacious feat: blockading one of the area’s major international highways in defiance of the regime. They subsequently did so and sent the photographic evidence to the media, which reported their bold accomplishment. What the activists conveniently neglected to mention was that they carried out their protest at a time of the day when traffic was at a lull, and relatively few vehicles were affected. Moreover, their blockade held for all of fifteen minutes—long enough to take some decent
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