According to a report by RT TV on December 25, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, broke out on December 24 local time. According to reports, thousands of ** poured into the streets, and more than a thousand of them tried to attack the Belgrade City Hall in an attempt to break into its interior. Serbia sent tear gas to disperse these, and the Belgrade City Hall is currently safe.
That night, Serbia's ** Vučić urgently convened a meeting of the *** committee and called this ** a "color revolution". He did not hesitate to say that the "attempted 'revolution'" was triggered by the defeat of the opposition coalition to his Serbian Forward Party in the parliamentary elections on December 17. At the same time, Serbian Prime Minister Brnabic claimed that the intelligence about this ** was reported to Serbia in advance by the Russian *** department, so Serbia made response arrangements in advance, successfully carried out the repression operation, and expressed gratitude to the Russian intelligence services.
Although the scale of the incident is not small, Serbia's encounter shows the usual pattern of color revolutions in Western countries. First of all, the defeat of the opposition in the parliamentary or ** elections is used as an opportunity to provoke the opposition not to recognize the election results, and then encourage them to take to the streets. Some people resort to civilized measures, such as demonstrations and hunger strikesOthers, on the other hand, have resorted to drastic measures, smashing, looting, and burning to attack the organs of state power. When the situation escalates to a certain point, the ambassadors of the United States or certain European countries usually come forward to support these people and at the same time exert pressure on the current regime to abandon its intention of restoring order and repression, so as to overthrow the original regime through these opposition.
The 2014 color revolution on Maidan Square in Ukraine is a prime example. During this color revolution, the United States and the European Union exerted tremendous pressure on Yanukovych**, and even US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Nuland personally went to Maidan Square to distribute objects symbolizing freedom to demonstrators participating in the color revolution. These pressures have made Ukraine** afraid to take repressive actions at a critical moment. Later, a number of events occurred in Ukraine, including **forcing the "Golden Eagle" special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine to kneel, which led to the loss of Yanukovych's prestige, and finally ** was forced to leave, and the color revolution was considered a success.
In contrast, the color revolutions in Serbia were suppressed by the authorities at an early stage. ** The demonstrations had just begun, and before the future operation could be carried out, they were decisively suppressed by the riot police. This response is actually a relative response tactic adopted by these countries after becoming familiar with the pattern of color revolutions. They took advantage of the opportunity to act decisively before the unrest expanded, in order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further. Ukraine, for example, tried to instigate a color revolution in Luhansk in 2017, but Russia's Wagner Group stepped in directly and quickly quelled the unrest. Another example, in the outbreak of Kazakhstan in 2022, Russia's VDV forces quickly intervened, so that the unrest did not continue to spread.
These successful countermeasures are inevitably inseparable from adequate preparation and anticipation of possible color revolutions. The role of the intelligence services is crucial. Thus, Serbia ** expressed its gratitude to the Russian intelligence services. It also highlights the efficiency of Russian intelligence. Their adequate preparation and quick response were important guarantees to prevent the color revolution from taking place.