Good morning. Happy Statehood Day!
You’re reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.
By Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
13th of July
If this text can play a song, I would start it with the music from a cult movie directed by Radomir Saranovic.
A holiday that unites Montenegro. In the heroic act of the insurgents, everyone sees what they want, some of whom even see the Chetniks. When the DF congratulates Statehood Day, they’re thinking about Pavle Djurisic and Bajo Stanisic who took part in the uprising, but although they really participated in it, they betrayed it soon after by serving the occupier.
Krsto Popovic made a tragic mistake in the uprising, who, contrary to his children, didn’t see that Italy would not bring freedom to Montenegro. But Savo Celebic knew it very well.
On this day, 80 years ago, Montenegrins said NO to the 12th of July and “independent” Montenegro that the Italians had imposed on them. The Montenegrin people thus showed that only Montenegro they were building on their own could be independent.
There were four national heroes from my town, Budva. The Pastrovici got special credit during the uprising and NOB. And just see who’s running our town today.
Montenegro of Ljubo Cupic, Stana Tomasevic, Jelena Cetkovic, Vukica Mitrovic, Ljubica Popovic Masa, Veljko Vlahovic, Bajo Sekulic, Savo Kovacevic, Peko Dapcevic and all those “fairytale heroes” who engraved a Montenegrin name on Neretva, Sutjeska, Ljubo’s grave and on all other places defending freedom.
Today, when all values for which many gave their lives are being threatened with the work of our government, it’s time to remind ourselves of it and not let their sacrifice be in vain.
Momcilo Zekovic Zeko sends a video message congratulating Statehood Day.
Prime Minister and Zivko Nikolic
In a long interview for the public broadcaster, RTCG, the PM provoked numerous reactions. I’d agree with his perception of the state of play in many aspects. He indirectly pointed his finger at Aleksandar Vucic for mentorship over the DF. He called the situation in Montenegro “a great miracle”. The PM shows signs of perceiving Montenegro as an independent country. Being a member of the SPC, he continues to show that he has no objectivity when it comes to the position and domination of this community compared to other communities, primarily the CPC, which he described as “non-canonic”. When he speaks about crimes committed on the territory of former Yugoslavia, he talks about the monument to all victims. We should inform him that the monument on Pobrezje is just what he’s telling us. However, the Srebrenica genocide is the greatest crime of all in the latest war, and the crown of a policy responsible for what was happening to us during the 90s. The PM shows signs of giving in to requests of the DF and is ready to allow some politicians to enter the government. But overall, it seems that pro-Serbian politicians in Montenegro are going to forget everything they were telling about each other, just like many times before.
Suspicions against Dejan Vuksic
“It’s assumed that the PM tried to convince the government in London that the National Security Agency and other government bodies were not threatened by incapability, amateurism or close ties with unfriendly foreign forces. If Montenegro is not capable of keeping secret data confidential, her reliability as an ally will diminish soon and it’ll become more isolated,” American analyst Janusz Bugajski says in an interview for Pobjeda daily.
Empty ecology principles of GP URA
During the campaign, Dritan Abazović strongly protested against small hydroelectric power plants, saying that it was an ecocide. He and his bare-bearded party soldiers swore loudly and solemnly to the people that they would solve everything once they’re in power. Now in power, Abazovic still cannot fulfil what he promised so generously, so he found himself in trouble. While people remind him of promises, he responds bureaucratically.
Ex-ministers against Milatovic
Minister of Economic Development, Jakov Milatovic, says he will go to the prosecutor’s office following the criminal charge against him, filed by ex-ministers Aleksandar Bogdanovic, Predrag Boskovic, Suzana Pribilovic, Sanja Damjanovic and Dragica Sekulic. Ex-ministers filed a criminal charge over Milatovic’s allegations that “every minister was stealing”.
Democrats against Vlora Citaku
A Kosovo renowned diplomat provoked strong reaction from the Democrats who published a two-page response in an attempt to defend the downplaying of Aleksa Becic, noting that “criminals know no nationality”. They do, Becic, they do have nationality and ideology, and everything they do, they do in the name of that nationality and ideology. It’s particularly important to stress it so that the very nationality may face the past as soon as possible, instead of denying and downplaying the crime. Whichever nationality it is.
Cirgic on revisionism
My colleague Miras Dusevic was talking to the Dean of the Faculty of the Montenegrin Language and Literature, Adnan Cirgic, about historical revisionism. It’s around us, always present as a tendency, but Cirgic sees well that today it’s a part of the Montenegrin government state policy.
Yesterday, Cirgic wrote about other kinds of revisionism and downplaying. The political one. In the opinion piece, he reacted to the recent interview of Serbo Rastoder, who, apart from leaving the Civic Movement URA, now tries to justify it and defend its actions.
Bato’s corner
Budva’s Palma can’t stop making plebs happy. Bato Carevic seems to have sworn to return Budva to the 90s tourism. He chased the investors from Sveti Stefan, now it’s time to return Guca and Leskovacki rostilj (barbecue mastered in the Serbian town of Leskovac) to the streets of Budva. The only thing we need are naked oily pole dancers and that’s it.
That’s all for today. Enjoy the holiday. Some of us started working at 5 am this morning.
