Serbia Strong
1995 song
Serbia Strong is a nickname given to a Serbian nationalist, anti-Croat, and anti-Muslim propaganda music video from the Yugoslav Wars. The song has spread globally as an internet meme, including amongst far-right groups and the alt-right.
The song was originally called "Karadžić, Lead Your Serbs" in reference to the wartime Bosnian Serb political leader and convicted war criminal Radovan Karadžić. It is also known as "God Is a Serb and He Will Protect Us" and "Remove Kebab".
Background
The song was recorded near Knin along the road to Plavno during the Yugoslav Wars. Lead singer Željko Grmuša stated that the track was composed in 1993 to boost the morale of Serb forces, while other participant accounts date the recording to 1995. In the video of the song, the tune is performed by four men in Serb paramilitary uniforms at an outdoor location with hilly terrain in the background. An edited version of the video uploaded to YouTube in August 2008 by Croatian documentary filmmaker Pavle Vranjican incorporated footage of captured Bosnian Muslim prisoners in Serb-run internment camps and the ICTY trial of Karadžić as a critical parody of the original propaganda. That upload also prefixed an interview clip of convicted war criminal Nikola Jorgić quoting Karadžić as saying "God is a Serb and he will protect us", which led internet users to mistakenly adopt the phrase as the song's title.
The lyrics threaten opponents with lines such as "The wolves are coming, beware, Ustaše and Turks".
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