draskovic , who wears the flowing beard and hair of a 19th-century serbian patriot , was transported from his jail cell tuesday night to a flood-lit platform in republic square , where he delivered a speech that was triumphant , vehemently nationalistic and bitterly anti-communist to a vast crowd that howled and whistled with delight. ; the demonstrations in belgrade -- capital of both yugoslavia and serbia -- came amid a worsening ethnic and political crisis in this patchwork balkan country of six combative republics .