Comments - jmiticp

Hi

Here to voice my own opinion on national spirits for Serbia. I live in Serbia, so I hope I can help

Definitely, a national spirit that boosts democratic support even more, for there existed various movements that advocated for the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and democratic election. Those movements include one such as Otpor who were, as mentioned, against the policies of Slobodan Milosevic and authorities who were set up by him to ensure his ''reign'' over the state.
(The ''Otpor!'' movement was the strongest)

Source for Otpor movement in Wiki: En.wikipedia.org!

However what I'd also add is the increasing support of the ''Radikalna partija'', the far-right wing party that is ultra-nationalistic. Always during economic crisis and when the conditions of life worsen in a state, the far-right parties manage to get a hold on the population and become very popular. It is proven afterwards in the Serbian parliamentary elections in 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_parliamentary_election,_2003) where the SRS that was then led by Tomislav Nikolic (as Seselj was handed over to ICTY in 2003)
managed to have a majority in parliament. Also a poll in 2005 mentioned in Blic (http://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/tadic-and-radicals-the-most-popular-in-serbia/2qkpbfl) asserted the Radical party as the most popular back then. Also that popularity managed to be strong all until Tomislav founded his own party SNS (Srpska napredna stranka) and left SRS in year 2008 after failing again, in presidential elections, though by little difference in votes.

Therefore, if a national spirit to be set for Serbia, I'd add one that boosts Democratic support but ALSO radical support, for it is proven in later years, that radicals have gained more and more support. You could however connect that radical boost to the anti-NATO stance that Serbia had gained since the bombing of 1999 comitted by the West, and the industrial collapse that has followed in the aftermath. Since radical party's stance is very anti-West you could connect those two things.

That anti-NATO stance could also include some infrastructure or industrial penalties, as mentioned, because the bombings included the destruction of various Serbian cities. (Not entire destruction) Many cities were bombarded, Belgrade being priority.

tl;dr:

So yeah, two national spirits

The first one:

Anti-NATO that boosts radical support (until 2008, because the party then changes leaderships numerous of times and loses popularity because of Nikolic's departure since he was closest to Seselj back then) and has industrial/infrastructure penalties

Source from Wiki for the Radical party's leadership: Šešelj led the party since its foundation until his voluntary extradition to the ICTY in 2003, on charges of involvement in war crimes during the Bosnian War. His deputy president Tomislav Nikolić assumed de facto leadership of the party until its split in 2008

(After his departure from SRS; he founded SNS that is now the leading party in Serbia. Since then, SRS lost much of it's popularity, proved in 2012 parliamentary elections: En.wikipedia.org)

The second one:

Democratic opposition that wants elections and the overthrow of Milosevic.
(for 2000, nothing after that)

Hope I didn't bore you with this long post lol