How Serbian activists used humor to topple a dictator

Serbian activists toppled a dictator by turning him into a carnival game, proving that mockery can be a powerful weapon against authoritarianism. In Belgrade during the late 1990s, young protesters placed a barrel painted with President Slobodan Milosevic's face on a busy street, offering passersby a baseball bat to "Smash his face for just a dinar" (ab…