Serbia Greets Marija
Some 70,000 people gathered in the square in front of Belgrade Parliament Building to greet Marija Serifovic, Serbia's Euorvision winner.
Serbia Greets Marija
The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest Marija Serifovic and her team returning from Finland was greeted in Belgrade square in front of the Parliament Building by, according to Tanjug, some 70,000 people who, together with Marija, sang the winning song “Molitva.”
Greeted with cheers “Marija” and “Serbia,” accompanied by the music of traditional brass bands and fireworks, the overwhelmed young singer addressed thousands of people who spectacularly celebrated the victory of the first Serbian Eurovision contestant.
“It is wonderful to see this many of you here, we could feel it over there, this amazing amount of energy and thank you for that support. All of you were shone the light upon there — this is what we expected and this is what we got. We won and I sincerely hope this shall be a new chapter for the new Serbia,” said Marija.
Thank You, Marija!
“I Promised...”
“On Tuesday I will go to the Europe tour, but the most important thing is this, here and now. I promised I shall win and sing ‘Molitva’ with you and that’s what I’m doing,” said happy and tired Helsinki winner, thanking everyone from her team.
Marija, who arrived at 7:30 pm was first greeted at the Nikola Tesla Belgrade airport by the traditional Serbian brass bands playing ‘Molitva.’ From the airport, she was accompanied to the Serbian television headquarters, where the party was organized in her honor and general manager of the RTS, Aleksandar Tijanic, greeted her and thanked her for everything she has done.
After that, Marija came to the Parliament Square where she was cheered by more than 70,000 people gathered to jointly celebrate her triumph.
“We could feel your energy back there in Helsinki, we knew you are with us. Thank you so much for everything,” said Marija, as Serbian capital was lit by the fireworks.
Marija Serifovic, representing Serbia, achieved great success by winning the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki in which the record 42 countries took part. The contest was broadcast to an estimated global TV audience of over 100 million.
Comments
I watched the video on youtube. It was amazing! Everyone sung along, it made my hair stand on my neck.
On another note - I saw the ''Serbia stole Albanian song'' gutter press sensationalism. The new low for UK. Serbia would cut its right arm off before it would take anything Albanian (as if there is anything to be taken from them anyway. The notorious history re-writers and land grabbers).
This Serb hatred is just too deep, isn't it? Its a stain on Western soul which cannot be rubbed out, it seems.
One must wonder if UK has employed a full-time Serb bashers (yeah, they're called BBC), who go around making sure that Serbs are beat to the ground every time something good happens.
Well they can all just crap their pants barking for Albania. Serbia won. Albania lost. The cosmic order sooner or later gets restored back to the way it should be. Same will apply for everything else too.
God sees everything.
Congratulations Marija, congratulations Serbia!
Posted by: Mila | May 14, 2007 06:06 AM
Of course, since they can't get anywhere with the conspiracy theory that Marija's "Molitva" got votes because everybody suddenly LOVES Serbs and Serbia, after hating them for two decades, they have to come up with another, which is: Serbia won with the "stolen" song.
I was surprised when I read how these same states wanted Serbia destroyed back at the beginning of the 20th century, during the First World War, so that Serbia's King asked Bishop Nikolai of Zhicha to go to Britain and "tell them who we are", thinking it's all some sort of confusion, a result of ignorance; and how the poor Bishop, not knowing what to do, went to Hyde Park and started playing his frula, quickly getting attention as an unusual sight - a black robed man with a long beard playing an unknown instrument... It's a sad and beautiful story, but the point is that Serbia has always been maligned by the same Wanna-Be-Masters of the Universe. We think it's Ottoman Turks, Habsburgs and Hitler we had an issue with, but it was also Britain, France, and the rest of Western Europe always, not just today, or during the civil wars of the 1990s that hate and despise Serbs and Serbia, because it refuses to be assimilated and drowned in foreign culture, foreign faith, foreign tradition... We better get used to it already and stop expecting to be treated fairly, or with some measure of dignity by the Borg.
Posted by: Svetlana | May 14, 2007 04:35 PM
Wow, Svetlana, I never heard it put quite that way. That gives us a different, more open-eyed perspective. If you're right, then maybe sooner or later Serbia will stop going around, all puzzled and mystified about why she is a pariah, believing like the King that it's just a misunderstanding or ignorance, and eventually just accept the hatred and go about her business without any more second glances or wistful looks toward the haters. Serbs always think that the truth will out, but it just doesn't seem to, does it? Instead it is the propaganda machines that come out on top. Nevertheless, I have to admit I DO find this Serbophobia very mystifying. I would say I find it baffling.
Posted by: Blackbird | May 15, 2007 04:17 PM
I honestly don't know, but I'm starting to see a history repeating: Vatican/West wants to assimilate us or destroy us, we wash ourselves in blood and get rid of Turks, we're heroes; Vatican/West turns back to trying to either assimilate or destroy, we wash ourselves in our own blood and lose third of population in the WWI, we're heroes in the West; Vatican/West can't give up and wants to assimilate or destroy the Serbs, we wash ourselves in our blood and lose another third of remaining population during the WWII, we're heroes... Vatican/West persists in its original design. May God prove me wrong!
Posted by: Svetlana | May 15, 2007 04:58 PM