Occurrences
Graffiti containing the message has been sighted in Vojvodina, in Central Serbia, and in Republika Srpska. Such graffiti was also seen in Kosovo during the Kosovo War. In the Kosovo village of Lozica, the local Albanian population was claiming that the graffiti "Srbije do Tokija" was written by Serbian military forces during the destruction of the village.
During 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, phrase was expanded. "Srbija do Tokija, al' preko Milvokija", meaning "Serbia to Tokyo, but over Milwaukee", in order to show disagreement with USA role during 1999 bombing. After the bombardment ended, phrase extension was abandoned.
In Kragujevac during the night of 5/6 January 2001, unknown attackers have destroyed a shop owned by a Chinese citizen and added a slogan on the building walls
Outside of Serbia in ex-Yugoslavia, the slogan is sometimes written on walls, but then it is taken as a derogatory joke and nationalistic provocation.
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