Good morning! During the celebration of the Day of Serbian Unity, Freedom and National Flag, in his address, Vucic once again demonstrated his aspiration for political unity of all Serbs in the Western Balkans. Those who don’t support the SNS are not Serbs.
All Serbs in one party
I was looking at the building of the Municipality of Bijelo Polje the other day and a tricolour flying on it. Bijelo Polje is a town ruled by the DPS. Young members of the DPS teach us what tolerance and coexistence are. When it’s a Bosniak holiday, they display the Bosniak flag, on the Albanian Day, they display the Albanian flag. Why wouldn’t then they display the Serbian flag on the Serbian Day. Sounds logical when we first think about it.
Love and peace are everywhere around us. Only there are several problems concerning the matter. Who proclaimed 15 September the Serbian Day? Was it defined by the Montenegrin law or the law in Serbia? Is it generally accepted among Serbs in Montenegro as a holiday? Is this date accepted amongst Serbs generally, primarily in Serbia – or it’s a propaganda party holiday that serves the party leader to send a message across Serbdom.
Secondly, who has ever made a decision at any session declaring that flag as the Serbian flag in Montenegro. The Albanian and Bosniak flags were established as the flags of those communities at the national councils. I don’t remember a similar decision was made regarding the Serbian flag.
Nevertheless, the celebration of this holiday is not the most dangerous event for Montenegro and Montenegrins, but paradoxically – for Serbs in Montenegro.
If the DPS really ever had the intention to reach out to Serbia and minimize it to the “right measure”, then ok. This is a great strategy. Minimize the Serbs to the SNS. Because the DF, For the Future of Montenegro, whatever you want to call them – are exactly that. A branch office of the mother party in Montenegro. Vucic’s regime doesn’t include those who aren’t loyal to the party and the leader as Serbs.
In Kosovo, this intention to put Serbia under the exclusive control of SNS was best implemented by ‘Srpska Lista’. Anyone who doesn’t support the SNS is not a Serb – at best, they’re Kurti’s Serbs. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is a false pluralism, as there is a government and an opposition, but in fact it is about two parts of the Bosnian SNS that are fighting for the mercy of the leader.
In Montenegro, everything Serbian is branded with Vucic. His name is on the entrance to the imposing Serbian House in the city centre where Zdravko Krivokapic declared victory. Now, every day on Pink, we hear about the fact that “Serbs cannot join the government”, and every human being alive knows that both the president and future prime minister are Serbs. They just don’t let them be Serbs. And it’s not about the “evil West” and the Vatican, it’s about Vucic. They didn’t pass the Serbian test and kiss the ruler’s curds. They have to go through an initiation to be trusted.
There’s also a ritual. The initiation ritual is performed with the traditional Christmas tree that Serbian leaders from the region bring into the building of the Presidency of Serbia. This is how a Serb certifies himself. Whoever did not go through that and did not bend the kneel to Vucic will be attacked by the Serbian media, which dominates both Montenegro and its public space.
The drive to monopolize politics and the media gave results in Serbia. All politics and the media are uniformed there. Even the media that are not controlled by Vucic are pushed into a corner and have to prove their “patriotism”, so Zaklina from N1 goes to Kosovo in a camouflage uniform with a flag, while editors of the opposition newspapers and civil activists have to publicly say that Montenegrins are Serbs.
If Montenegro as a society and country of her citizens doesn’t resist this latest attacks of Belgrade, rest assured that in the next few years our country will be run by a president appointed by the government of Serbia.
I’m not sure Milatovic is not that, because he would never have been the president of Montenegro if it hadn’t been for Serbia’s assistance concerning Spajic’s passport.
That’s all for today. Until tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer and columnist
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