Can someone read this?
Posted by EastwardSeeker@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 72 comments
I think it's Serbian but I can't be sure. Carved in an old M70 stock.
Posted by EastwardSeeker@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 72 comments
I think it's Serbian but I can't be sure. Carved in an old M70 stock.
Ceionius@reddit
Don't envy the violent, nor choose his path.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Damn… unexpected peaceful serbian message.
Feisty-Captain-9462@reddit
The fact this surprised you means you're the problem
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Or that I was alive in the 90s. You can’t pretend Serbs are the worlds most peaceful nation bro.
svarga108@reddit
Oh Slovenia was without any sin in the 90s, although it illegally deleted 25,671 permanent residents (many of them Serbs) from its civil registry and k…d 47 young JNA soldiers, 18 to 22 years old. But when all the West, especially Germany, supports you with it’s powerfull media, it can do wonders.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Slovenia definitely has it’s faults. And this is a great example and a shitty think to so by the government.
But sadly it also illustrates the difference of what the result is when Slovenia decides to delete a few thousand people they don’t want living in their country vs what happens when Serbs do. One is a massive bureaucratic offence, the other is a mass grave.
svarga108@reddit
So Serbs are just bad by definition according to you? Interesting, considering some historical facts.
“During World War II, Nazi Germany launched a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced Germanization in occupied northern Slovenia. Around 80.000 Slovenes were forcibly deported, 7.500 to Serbia.
The welcoming of Slovenian refugees by the Serbian population during World War II remains one of the most significant historical examples of solidarity in the wartime Balkans.
Despite facing brutal German military occupation and extreme economic deprivation themselves, Serbs provided extensive shelter, education, and humanitarian aid to the exiled Slovenes.
The first trains of exiled Slovenes arrived in Serbia in June 1941. The majority were distributed across central Serbian cities like Užice, Čačak, Aranđelovac, Kruševac, Vrnjačka Banja, and Jagodina. Refugee centers were established in nearly every town. Because the centers quickly overflowed, thousands of local Serbian families voluntarily opened their private homes to lodge, feed, and clothe the refugees. This aid was provided even though Serbia was suffering from severe food shortages, rationing, and punitive economic extraction by the German occupiers.
The Serbian population prioritized the well-being of Slovenian children. While they attended local Serbian schools, special classes conducted entirely in the Slovenian language were organized so the children would not lose their cultural identity.”
Ha55aN1337@reddit
No Serbs are not bad by definition. But they do have some people ready to do some nasty shit. Or they had in the 90s.
I’m glad they also have nice people who took 7500 Slovenes. I think we more then returned that favor if you google the % of Serbs living in Slovenia today. And the number of refugees we took in during Balkan wars (from all sides).
svarga108@reddit
Hahahaaa you made my day with “returning the favor”😆Oh my…Good night!
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Google what news about Stevanović came out today and what he will be doing in Belgrade. 😂
Glittery_Marshmallow@reddit
Ah yes, the dicatator that could not be removed with many protests and that kept stealing elections. Yes, totally what the majority wanted, definitely what the people are like.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Yes, the man that elected himself, protected himself, killed everyone himself and commited genocide himself. Everyone else was his victim.
Please… I love Serbs today and have many friends in Belgrade, but let’s not pretend A LOT of people didn’t enjoy what they did in the 90s. People were literally going on safari in Bosnia to rape, kill, steal and come back. No one twisted their hand.
Those were not good people. And there were A LOT of them.
Etsikaietsi@reddit
I heard a lot of the people doing the safari were Slovenian. Not surprised at all.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
LOL, no they weren’t. These were rich people from the west.
Etsikaietsi@reddit
Slovenia is the west compared to Bosnia and is richer. It all adds up. Shame on your entire country.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Dude, just call Slovenia out for any of the things they did badly in history. They exploited Bosnians for years. Decades. Use that. Don’t make shit up. :) Sarjevo Safari had nothing to do with Slovenia. There is a reason the war here lasted only 10 days. We may be many shitty things, but not murderers.
Etsikaietsi@reddit
Slovenians killing Bosnians for money is as real as the Sarajevo safari. Maribor Murderers they called themselves.
MislimStvarnoOpet@reddit
What did you mean about the reason for the “war” duration in Slovenia?
Glittery_Marshmallow@reddit
And the people who went on safari were who? Foreigners. From the countries that are the loudest in calling out Serbian people. So how does that prove your point? Meanwhile Serbians were stitting tight at home anxious not knowing what is happening, because there was no internet, on the TV there were lies, constant restrictions of power and water, no supplies of anything, extreme inflation, basic survival, without knowing if waht could happen tomorrow. But please, enlighten me about the expensive safari for the westerners.
Yes, the first time they are elected they usually lie to you, then they stay in power by stealing. Are you not familiar with dictatorships? Do you not know that he literally called for the civil war against his own people (that luckily did not happen) when he was finally taken down?
Please enlighten me what the Slovenians were doing during that time? Let's talk about Janez Jansa. How about his affairs related to the war in Bosnia? Please remind me how many times was he elected in Slovenia repeatedly, democratically??? Is he not in power right now? Your little Israeli puppet? How large was the public support of him?
If this was another country you would call them savages, but hey, since it is yours, it's all fine.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
I’m not just talking about Sarajevo Safari. I’m talking about ratni profiteri etc. Are we gonna pretend Serbs did no evil in the 90s? Cmon bro.
And Janša has 28% support. The other 72% don’t understand why, yet he does. Call us out for it, no problem. I have no probpem admiting the stuff Slovenia does badly.
Design_pattern@reddit
From your point of view, there is one nation (the Serbs) who suddenly went mad in the 1990s.
To understand whether this was really sudden, a broader knowledge of the history of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia and the causes of the bloody conflict is needed. For a start, count the Serbian victims, don't forget Jasenovac and the massacres of Serbs in Herzegovina (admit you've never even heard of this). Find out who did it and why. If your ancestors had experienced what mine did, you'd be telling a different story.
If you ask me, all people are the same, but life circumstances aren't, and that makes the difference; many have been pushed to the very limits of existence.
In the end, it's the easiest thing to characterise one group as being to blame for everything.
ActuatorNew6203@reddit
Do not judge nation by incomprehent individuals.
Feisty-Captain-9462@reddit
Never ever, Slovenians are good and honest people
Ha55aN1337@reddit
I don’t assume all Serbs are the same, or that people today are like those in the 90s… but a disturbing amount of people was ready to do some violent shit back then.
Forsaken-Minute-2116@reddit
Bruh
Ha55aN1337@reddit
You are. ♥️
This gun is a few decades old though :)
bleedthefreak123@reddit
On rifle stock nonetheless
Ha55aN1337@reddit
That is a good answer for all the comments bellow haha.
Ok-Priority253@reddit
Despite what nationalists on all sides are pushing today for some reason a lot if not most people at the time did not like the war
TriesteMioAmore@reddit
Back in the late 90s, my father as a police officer was ordered to go to war in Kosovo, instead hebl refused, got fired and fled to Italy.
angryopinionator@reddit
Unbelievably based dad.
gloryofkuzco@reddit
Chad father
Winter_Average_9686@reddit
based.
Would love to treat your dad a drink!
loqu84@reddit
Bless your father
Ha55aN1337@reddit
I mean… i kinda wanna live in a country where the % of people who “like war” is close to 0% :) “most” or “a lot” is really far from ideal haha.
oops_all_memes@reddit
No one likes war, some people just pretend they do. You can see it with Z nazis in Russia. The most rabid supporters of the war all of a sudden started leaving Russia once the regime started actually sending them to the frontlines
Ha55aN1337@reddit
No one likes it, but there are idiots who wish for it (and then find out they dont like it if they start to lose).
Dawncracker_555@reddit
Also, there is a whole generation of people thrown into the war straight from mandatory military service. A lot of young men who had no intention to kill other men who were their comrades yesterday.
a_bright_knight@reddit
expected xenophobic slovenian comment
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Is it xenophobic if it’s fact based? You guys did some violent shit not even 30 years ago. I’m guessing this is not a very new gun…
Incvbvs666@reddit
The only thing that is fact based is that Serbia should have never protected Slovenia and Croatia after WWI from Italy.
a_bright_knight@reddit
where am i arguing that we didnt do bad stuff 30+ years ago? That's a fact.
It's also a fact Slovenians are incredibly xenophobic even in big ol 2026.
Ha55aN1337@reddit
Well, I guess we both suck. :) let’s be better.
Neverloookbackk@reddit
Unexpected?! Fuck! You are just a cannibal saying this way!
Srna-95@reddit
😇
EastwardSeeker@reddit (OP)
Thank you! I would have tried a translator bit I couldn't make out all the letters.
djanitbra@reddit
Its a bible verse from the book of Ecclesiastes i think, either that or the book of Solomon. It teaches us about wisdom - wisdom cannot be found in violence, stealing, adulteration etc. it’s only found in the fear of the Lord. Go read it, it’s very profound.
Unable-Stay-6478@reddit
Немој завидети насилнику, ни изабрати који пут његов
gloryofkuzco@reddit
Bars
MrSmileyZ@reddit
Don't envy the Bully, nor choose which path is his. Literal translation
MixPsychological4728@reddit
Немоj Завидети насилнику ни изабрати коjи пут ьегов
I'm a bulgarian and as far as I could read it's this. It translates into something like: You can't. Take our abuser [something. I can't understand this bit]
driftstyle28@reddit
It says don't envy the abuser nor choose his path
Sarajevo2023@reddit
How ironic that this message is written on a rifle stock...
treba_dzemper@reddit
Is it? It's from the Bible.
Name a more iconic duo than the Bible and gun nutters
Sarajevo2023@reddit
Is it not...? Like God needs to be defended with a gun... Isn't He all mighty and doesn't need our defence...? I'm sick and tired of that Bible and a gun cowboy nonsense...
treba_dzemper@reddit
Well this type of folks aren't sick of it, they keep perpetuating it.
I expect to find a gun in a house with Bible/Quran and other religious ornaments way more than I expect to find it in a house where people signal their secular or progressive attitude.
As much as religious teachings propagate non-violsnce, owning weapons absolutely comes with the territory of being conservative, as does being openly and aggressively religious.
It has nothing to do with cowboys ie it's not just an American thing.
Nikoschalkis1@reddit
Well I suppose it can also be interpreted as "don't use the weapon offensively, use it for protection"
SlavicRobot_@reddit
Thats how i interpreted it
EastwardSeeker@reddit (OP)
Same
Solid-Scarcity-236@reddit
Don't envy the bully, nor try to choose his/hers path
Cute-Beyond-5713@reddit
Nije bas bully dobar prevod
EastwardSeeker@reddit (OP)
Thanks!
AdditionalPanda4935@reddit
Yes, I can.
Ok_Profession_8471@reddit
Do not envy a tyrant, nor choose (go down) his path.
Thrustdamage22@reddit
It says do not envy the bully, nor choose his path. Seems like some heavy life advice carved into a rifle stock.
elStupido17@reddit
"Немој завидети насилнику, ни изабрати који пут његов"
Do not envy the violent, do not choose their path, roughly translated
RastislavS@reddit
https://i.redd.it/2fm4sgrnfo4h1.gif
EastwardSeeker@reddit (OP)
😂
Th3Dark0ccult@reddit
I can read it, but I don't know what it means.
scrubsmcnubbs@reddit
Others have commented it's meaning as well as it's cyrillic writing, but for those who wonder what it says but that can't read cyrillic:
'Nemoj zavideti nasilniku, ni izabrati koji put njegov'
inactivehuman@reddit
It comes from Proverbs 3:31, which is part of Chapter 3 of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
EastwardSeeker@reddit (OP)
Yeah I saw that once someone translated it, interesting message