won audience poll at Subotica Youth Festival

Owing to Legendarni uživo , the band was invited to compete at the 1987 Subotica Youth Festival . KUD Idijoti entered the finals with three other acts which would later also gain prominence, Mizar , Grad and Indust Bag , and were polled the best band by the festival’s audience. Live versions of KUD Idijoti songs “Za tebe” and “Disco Is Not Dead” were included on the live album Najbolji uživo ( The Best Ones Live ) recorded on the festival. Encouraged by their success on the festival—the members of the band would later state on several occasions that at the time they had been exhausted by their efforts to gain the attention of the media and on the verge of splitting up—KUD Idijoti continued their activity. The band started to receive invitations for performances from all over Yugoslavia, but also received attention from underground punk community in Western Europe , performing in small clubs in West Germany , Switzerland and Italy. At the beginning of 1987, the band represented Yugoslavia on the festival of Mediterranean countries Vivere in Mediteraneo ( To Live in the Mediterranean ), held in Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy . During their performance of “Bandiera Rossa”, local Carabinieri , provoked by the song’s refrain “Evviva il comunismo e la liberta” (“Long live communism and freedom”), climbed to the stage and interrupted the band’s performance. The event caused a minor diplomatic incident , with Yugoslav embassy in Rome sending a letter of protest to Italian government, and Yugoslav daily newspaper Politika dedicating significant attention to the event. Soon after, the band was subject of another incident – their concert in Switzerland was interrupted by feminist activists, who were provoked by a sticker on Milovanović’s guitar depicting a naked girl and sprayed the guitar with spray paint .