‘Vote for Filip Filipovic’ – the letters have faded but the message is clear, and it seems it is well protected behind the glass in this small street in the center. This is a first, you will think, a graffiti protected by glass. What makes it so special? The graffiti is obviously a call to the polls. A quite good one, as history tells us that Mr. Filipovic was eventually elected as the mayor of Belgrade. Filipovic was a mathematician, and a revolutionary, one of the founders of the Communist party of Yugoslavia and its first secretary. He never got to be the Mayor, as the regime back then did not accept their defeat in the elections. The call to the polls was stamped on this Belgrade wall in 1920, and preserved until today.
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