By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
The footage shows the Mayor of Niksic – who simply must show off, but I forgot his name and simply can’t make myself google it – awarding icons to students who have graduated from secondary school.
A Facebook user ‘Gruna Stramen’ is wondering: “What happens if a student doesn’t believe in God at all or belongs to another religion?”.
Of course, it’s a rhetorical question, but the answer’s clear: convert them to Christianity.
Practically at the same time, Joanikije II says that Joanikije I was a lamb of God. It killed him naturally, as well as other collaborators of the occupiers.
And a few days ago, after 80 years, the heroes found courage and attacked the partisan graves.
All these are the consequences of Amfilohije’s clerical counter-revolution, which, in one way or another, with more or less intensity, more or less hidden, was supported by a considerable number of our gradjavinars (here’s the new term: gradjavinar; a member of allegedly civil movements and parties funded by construction tycoons, who, under the cloak of “overcoming divisions”, which is a variation of the slogan “Less blacks, less racism”, in our case formulated as “less Montenegrins, less divisions”, pursues a policy of one people, one church, one leader, and a leader is from Belgrade) and NGOs, for which they were awarded after the 2020 elections – in all aspects.
A maneuver in which representatives of civil, secular society support the general clericalization of society, so that a priest from Ostrog appoints a Montenegrin prime minister, and another priest from the same monastery hosts another Montenegrin prime minister, who’s younger than the first one, so he can kneel better and faster, and is somehow compassionate, is only seemingly controversial. You’ve never heard the saying: fight fire with fire?
If you’re struggling with a hangover, take three glasses of loza in the morning: it’s not good to eat on an empty stomach. If you have a problem with the malignant influence of the pro-Russian church structure, strengthen the influence of that structure to maximum: give it power. By the way, the ambassadors of the countries that are now worried about the malignant influence that Russia is threatening the region through that church, during Amfilohije’s clerical counterrevolution, almost joined religious processions and threw flowers at the priests, just like Belgrade residents used to do on tanks heading for Vukovar.
Contrary to popular belief, foreseeing the future in our country is an easy task. Whoever bet on a misfortune – won.
So did I. In February 2020, on the occasion of the Mostar events (and there they attacked the partisan cemetery again several days ago), I wrote that “anti-fascism in Bosnia and Herzegovina is no longer, or has long been, a social value. Accordingly, it is not even desirable. Recent events in Mostar confirm this. The said “events” were not a confirmation from which something can be learned (if someone’s not clear with it now, may it never be clear for them), but a mere demonstration of power. Whose power, the power of what?
The power of fascism.
Therefore: the point at which anti-fascism meant preventive action is long behind us. Fascism has won and today it still tolerates anti-fascism – in some places and sometimes. As soon as tomorrow, anti-fascism will be banned, with the well-known explanation – that it is the most disgusting, insidious version of the godless, Titoist-Yugoslav left radicalism.
In Mostar, a few days ago, we said, anti-fascists were treated the way right-wing Americans treat Indians when they protest the gas pipeline running through their reserve: yes, they are boring, yes, it’d be better not to have them, it’d be better if we killed them all, but now when they’re already there, in the name of democratic charade and hypocrisy, let them gather under strict police control and say what they have – although not as they imagined.
Anti-fascists, for example, imagined walking through Mostar. They would harass the public, so some of the members of the public could resent … The police should be understood: they cannot let anti-fascists harass the fine fascist world of Mostar. They better get them on the bus for their safety. And that exactly happened.
Therefore, Mostar is a city where, officially, the police cannot guarantee security to anti-fascists. That is why Mostar is no different from most of our other cities. In most other cities, however, it’s still not quite common or accepted as the gold standard, what in Mostar is – drawing swastikas on the graves of, let’s say – partisans. One would say, I understand the logic of fascists: did we win or not? If we won, we would draw swastikas when and where we want, didn’t we fight for it?
Fascism will be even stronger in our country, while anti-fascism weaker. Young people are a guarantee, as they’re mostly fascists. The ratio of fascists and anti-fascists among the youth is appalling and leaves no room for hope. Fascists, let me repeat, treat us like Americans treat Indians: they have already taken or destroyed all ours, we are no longer a threat to them and now they are simply waiting for us to die out.
World War II in former Yugoslavia was a war of liberation, but also an integral part of the revolution. The wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s were, among other things, an integral part of the counter-revolution. Which worked. In economic terms, it has been completed throughout the ex-Yugoslav territory: everything the communists had built was sold, or would be sold soon. In ideological terms, the counter-revolution was not completed only in Montenegro. But the final counter-revolutionary coup is underway in Montenegro as well: it’s run by Amfilohije, with the help of Serbia and Republika Srpska – I wrote about it two and a half years ago.”
And then, on 30 August, conditions were met to complete the counter-revolution in Montenegro.
And they didn’t succeed. Again.
We all tend to criticize Montenegro. But, never mind. Harsh criticism is essential, it’s a remedy. But let us not forget: this country, no matter what it’s like, and its fascism, no matter what it’s like, survived two counter-revolutions and two frontline attacks of the Great Serbia nationalism over the past three decades (the first one was the so-called Anti-bureaucratic revolution).
I told what I thought about it back in February 2020. I think the same now. Recall – those days, the church youth squad got into the partisan cemetery in Orja Luka near Danilovgrad, lit torches and sang the anthem of the Legion’s death squad, a song under the title ‘Christ God’.
Just like in Mostar, the Danilovgrad state bodies didn’t protect the cemetery either. However, contrary to Mostar, residents of Orja Luka were determined to solve this problem on their own.
They stated:
“Last night, Orja Luka witnessed the inappropriate and incomprehensible behavior of a group of unknown people, who made a torchlight procession next to the graves of honorable Orja Luka residents, singing songs which deeply insulted Orja Luka statehood and anti-fascism, but also human and civic dignity. Only thanks to the voice of reason did this scandal end without serious consequences.
On behalf of all Orja Luka residents, for whom human well-being is in the first place, and Montenegro the only home, we demand from competent bodies to discover who are perpetrators of this heinous act and punish them most severely. We still have a dose of trust in state bodies. If they do nothing to protect Orja Luka and its hard-earned reputation, Orja Luka will find a way to defend itself and its honor as it should, following its tradition and history.”
Remember this statement. It may be that this is one of the last authentic anti-fascist voices you’re going to hear in this subjugated region. It wasn’t a “Marxist reading”, or an intellectual hipsters’ talk, rather village hosts who told über-priest Amfilohije that if his angry dogs came to the graves of their partisan fathers again, they themselves would deal with them all, one by one.
Old School, baby, Old School.
