Dva meseca u jugoslovenskom Sibiru

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>U knjizi Dva meseca u jugoslovenskom Sibiru Dragisa Vasic jedan od najznacajnijih srpskih intelektualaca donosi potresno svedocanstvo sa granice Kraljevine SHS i Albanije gde je 1920. godine po kazni vlasti poslat na dvomesecnu vojnu vezbu usred gusenja albanske pobune. Kao urednik nezavisnog dnevnog lista Progres Vasic je zbog svojih ostrih politickih komentara i kritika rezima izazvao paznju cenzure i postao nepozeljan. Zatvaranjem lista i njegovim mobilisanjem drzava pokusava da ga ucutka ali bez uspeha. Po povratku iz tog jugoslovenskog Sibira kako sam ironicno naziva zabacenu korupcijom i nasiljem razaranu pogranicnu oblast Vasic objavljuje seriju zapazanja i politickih komentara u listu Republika a već 1921. objedinjuje ih u ovoj snaznoj dokumentarno-literarnoj knjizi. Revoltiran odnosom Kraljevine SHS prema ovom pogranicnom podrucju (slanje najgorih cinovnika koji su sirokogrudo saradjivali sa albanskim pobunjenicima kacacima) kroz gorke slike svakodnevice vojnika korumpiranih cinovnika i bescasca drzavnog aparata autor otkriva tamnu stranu posleratne stvarnosti. Njegovo pero je britko a patriotizam bez ostatka: posvecen narodu pravdi i zrtvama Vasic ne stedi ni rezim ni samog sebe u potrazi za istinom.</span></p><p></p><p>-----</p><p></p><p>A searing witness account from one of Serbia's foremost intellectuals. In 1920 after his sharp political editorials in the independent daily <em>Progres</em> drew the ire of the authorities Dragiša Vasić was disciplined with a two-month posting to the lawless borderland between the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes and Albania-amid the suppression of the Albanian uprising. He would later call it his Yugoslav Siberia. What he found there was not order but a bleak mosaic of conscripts' hardship predatory officials routine violence and a state apparatus willing to look away.</p><p>Back from the frontier Vasić published his reports in <em>Republika</em> and in 1921 gathered them into this documentary-literary book. The prose is lean and exact patriotic without illusions: loyal to people rather than to power merciless toward corruption and unsparing even of the author himself. Through bitter unforgettable scenes-soldiers in mud bribed administrators the uneasy traffic with kačak insurgents-Vasić uncovers the dark underside of the postwar order and asks what justice truth and responsibility might still mean at the edges of a young state.</p>