Lustration hasn’t transformed the political and social environment in other places, and it won’t do it in Serbia either. It’s actually a pretty weak initiative in most instances.
So this makes Vučić’s responses even more interesting. He compares the proposals to what he calls the periods of “terror” and “revenge” after 1945, and to what he calls “attempts to ban the political opposition” after 2000. Both claims are comically overstated, but they reveal two things: 1) who he identifies with, and 2) that he knows something the public might not know, which is what constitutes the basic criminal character of his regime.
