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Marković pays tribute to defenders of Montenegrin freedom

Prime Minister Duško Marković said that on this day – a hundred years to the day since the guns fell silent marking the end of the World War I – Montenegro is again divided between perceiving it as the date to honor all the victims or the date after which the name of Montenegro disappeared from world maps.

He said: “Only one country that courageously and consistently fought on the side of the Entente Powers and suffered tremendous losses in WWI, was left without a state name and wasn’t even mentioned in Europe for a long time. That is why in the Montenegrin memory – 11 November 1918 is a date we mark with divided feelings. The day of great historical victory of modern Europe, to which Montenegro with its 400,000 inhabitants gave 20,000 lives – is the date to honor all the victims. But, unfortunately, the date after which the name of Montenegro disappeared from the world map, the date which reminds us of the tragic injustice done to us by the Allied Powers of the Great War.”

PM Marković also noted that historical fact point out that Montenegro itself didn’t manage to act properly during those decisive years ahead and during of the WWI. He continued: “Montenegro’s army was ruined in the two Balkan wars, sacrificed in Mojkovac for the rescue of the Serbian army in retreat, and then handed over to the Serbian command. All this facilitated the military implementation of the political idea of the Allies on the disappearance of the Montenegrin state and its dynasty.”

Finally, he noted that our country needed almost 9 decades to repair the damage of state and national disaster it experienced in the end of the World War I.

 

 

 

 

 

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