Writer Dobrica Cosic’s circles and the Praxis group – the former open the Serbian national issue, while the latter stand up for the Yugoslav idea. In late 60s and early 70s the two opposition groupings are unquestionably alike – both criticized the Yugoslav socialist system. Many Yugoslavs turn into Serbs. The concept of a unified Yugoslavia turns into the idea of cultural union of territories inhabited by Serbs. When accepted as a full member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cosic delivers a speech that as of that moment associates just one of his phrases, “Serbs are wartime victors, and peacetime losers.”