New fruit juice toasts Saddam, Castro, Tito

BELGRADE: A new line of fruit juice whose bottles bear the names and images of notorious leaders like Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro and Josip Broz Tito has been launched in Serbia, a local daily reported on Wednesday.   

The idea was conceived and backed by award-winning Serbian film director Emir Kusturica, who has opened a small fruit juice factory in his western village of Drvengrad, said Glas newspaper.   

The report carried pictures of small green bottles with the pictures of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, former Yugoslav communist dictator Tito and Kusturica himself.   

It said Guevara would be honoured with the flavour of raspberry, Castro with blackberry, Tito with blueberry, and Kusturica strawberry.   

Among other personalities to be represented by fruit juice flavours is Argentine football legend Maradona, who was the subject of a recent Kusturica documentary film.   

Originally intended for visitors to his wooden village, Kusturica now plans to distribute the product more widely.