Usage
The three-finger salute was widely used by unionists in Montenegro during their rallies before the Montenegrin independence referendum.
The salute is also used by members and supporters of almost all Serbian political parties (excluding LDP and SPS) on their rallies during election campaigns. It can be seen at all kinds of street demonstrations, notably the Kosovo is Serbia rally.
Slobodan Milošević's party comrades and supporters used the salute.
Eurovision song contest winner, Marija Šerifović, while celebrating the maximum of 12 points that she received from Bosnian viewers displayed the three-finger salute. This caused controversy as some Bosnian viewers saw it as provocation, but Swedish Serbs called it ridiculous, saying the salute is nothing more than a modified V sign.
Rade Leskovac, president of the Party of Danube Serbs, a Serbian minority party in Croatia, caused a controversy in 2007 when election posters featuring him giving the three-fingered salute were posted around the city of Vukovar.
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