Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) president Miloš Vučević has once again taken to the public stage to claim that the state prevented a so-called “colored revolution” on November 1. Speaking at the Serbian Security Forum, “Security Challenges: The Strength of Unity 2025,” organized by the Center for Social Stability, Vučević insisted that the public deserves to know who financed and inspired these alleged attempts.
Yet, outside the grandiose rhetoric, no credible evidence has been presented to substantiate these claims. For decades, “color revolutions” have indeed occurred in various countries, sometimes destabilizing political systems—but in this instance, Vučević’s warnings appear more like political theater than reality.
On his Instagram account, Vučević wrote:
“Our country has thwarted all attempts to come to power and overthrow institutions by violent and undemocratic methods, but it is important to shed light and explain to the citizen what happened there, who are the financiers and inspirers of the attempt to cause a colored revolution. We need to open a dialogue about it, like the one today at the Forum, because it is good to hear the opinions of the professional public and civil society organizations.”
The problem is, there is no public record, investigation, or evidence supporting the notion that a violent attempt to overthrow Serbia’s institutions occurred on November 1. Vučević’s dramatic claims—framed as if the country narrowly escaped chaos—risk misleading citizens while painting ordinary political dissent or protest as a sinister plot.
Observers note that such rhetoric conveniently shifts attention away from pressing domestic issues, instead casting imagined threats as a justification for tighter political control. If Serbia truly “foiled” a revolution, the government owes the public more than social media posts and vague insinuations—it owes verifiable proof.
Until then, Vučević’s narrative reads less like fact and more like a performance meant to alarm and manipulate, rather than inform.
