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Disgusting Spring

The Zitzer Spiritual Republic and the Performative Acts of Civilian Resistance

Summary/Abstract: In the spring of 1992 – while the former Yugoslavia was falling to pieces – a disproportionately large number of wartime draft letters arrived to Tresnjevac (Oromhegyes,) a village of barely two thousand people in North Vojvodina, only twenty kilometres from the Hungarian border. As a response, circa two hundred locals locked themselves into the village pizzeria and declared the Zitzer Spiritual Republic. Their peaceful resistance lasted 96 days, this was the most significant anti-war action by the Hungarian community in Vojvodina. This paper explores the performativity of this event.

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