Good morning! The fact that the Montenegrin ministers attended the celebration of the Day of Republika Srpska is nothing strange, it’s a new normal both we and the world will have to get used to.
Welcome to Serbian Sparta
Dear people of Bosnia and Herzegovina of all religions and nations, it’s a new Montenegro you’ll have to get used to. Expect our ministers and mayors at all Serbian nationalist gatherings and events in your country. This with ministers Kovac and Damjanovic is not the first time. The mayors of my town have been attending such gatherings for a long time. Not only in your country, but in neighboring Kosovo as well. They also attended parades in Moscow. This is not the Montenegro which bought and paid for the fan van, but the one that set it on fire. Montenegro, which sincerely wants friendly relations with Bosnia and other neighbors, is disappearing. It’s only a matter of time when the fans singing “burek sa sirom” (eng. cheese pie) will be replaced by those singing “knife, wire, Srebrenica”. This has already happened with the Podgorica Buducnost fans, who displayed banners with racist provocations addressed to Albanians, or with those in Petrovac, who cursed mother to their compatriots and fellow citizens from Plav.
The Niksic municipal government already funds events that rehabilitate members of the army and volunteers from the wars of the 1990s. Soon we will have audiences and concerts for our “heroes” from Kosar and other offensives of the Serbian “patriotic” war of the 90s.
A Montenegrin and Montenegro are terms that for people outside of Montenegro are associated with what constitutes the majority of Montenegro at a certain moment. Without liberals, social democrats and minority nations in the 90s, mentioning Montenegro and Montenegrins meant fear and crime to our neighbors. At that time, the Montenegrins were the monster from Grbavica, Sljivancanin from Ovcara and Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan. Rade Bulatovic and many other active participants of the bloody feast of the 90s. They were all Montenegrins, only that for them being a Montenegrin meant something different than for Slavko Perovic.
Let’s never forget that the leaders of the genocidal policy of Greater Serbia were also Montenegrins – Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic. The first born in Montenegro, the second in Serbia, but both Montenegrins. How they declared themselves, and what ideas they served, what it meant for them to be a Montenegrin – that’s another story.
The fact that war with everyone and the creation of a Greater Serbia was not a Montenegrin national interest, you could not explain that to two-thirds of Montenegro at that time. Montenegro existed as an independent autonomous republic only on paper, i.e. formally, while it was actually a Serbian Sparta.
Just as it’s in vain when we now shout at the protests that these are not real Montenegrins, “Momir’s mercenaries”, and this is not the real Montenegro. Because that is the real Montenegro. The Podgorica majority has already said what it had to say. Its mayor is no longer the man who built friendly relations with his Sarajevo counterpart. The new mayor of Podgorica, who’s to take office, in ideology is closer to Drasko Stanivukovic. In the next parliamentary and presidential elections, only a miracle can save us from the new-old Vucic students not running the country.
Churches and monasteries of the majority religious community in Montenegro have never stopped serving that ideology, our media is now dominantly pro-Serbian. Three out of four TVs with a national frequency are owned by companies from Serbia, and the fourth television, our public service, has become predominantly pro-Serbian in terms of personnel. The product of this is a pro-Serbian public opinion that will be articulated to the end in the absolute majority of the parliament.
Our schools and universities are managed by pro-Serbian and pro-Russian politicians and activists. Our education is controlled by a pro-Serbian politician, running that body. Private Serbian-Orthodox schools are also being opened now.
Everything is slowly but surely and steadily moving towards a complete change in the demographic and political image of Montenegro. Montenegrin civil-sovereign – or what Vucic would once say – “separatist Montenegro”, is doomed to discredited and corrupt political elites. It is completely confused, non-unique and lost. Narrow party interests have ruined unity and synergy. Compromises with Serbian nationalism, which never stopped, significantly contributed to the reality we’re facing today. Personal interests, too. It was more important to buy an apartment for €10.000 than set up institutions.
Even today, in the eyes of the mothers of Srebrenica, Montenegro looks like that. Dear mothers, they’re not just Abazovic’s ministers. Abazovic also made them Montenegrin ministers.
Therefore, very soon, in the eyes of both Europe and the world, Montenegro will again become what it was during the 90s. I only hope that there will be no conflict with a militarized police parade as Dodik said. The conflict that Vucic evokes every now and then by raising his combat readiness. The conflict that Putin evokes with messages about another front. If, God forbid, a conflict in the Balkans happens, Montenegro will be given the most bloodthirsty place within the great coalition of Sauron (Vladimir Putin) and Saruman (Aleksandar Vucic). A place similar to Kadyrov’s Chechens in the current confrontation with Ukraine. Which would put us in an odious position and make us have only one friend and ally. It seems that we’ll have to get used to a new Montenegro, which is fully preparing for a role defined in ‘Mordor’.
That’s all for today. Until tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
