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The choice of name suggests that today's Russia expects a kind of international triumph from this vaccine, with clear political benefits of such an outcome. Although today's Russia does not have half the weight of the former USSR, but this kind of "calling on ancestors" is necessary to keep alive a great self-deception that is in the historical and spiritual foundations of today's Russia

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Finally, there is a possibility that some vaccines will also enter Montenegro. The thing is certain. He heard one code from one man, to one place, don't ask me where, I can't tell you... but a contingent of Russian vaccine is arriving. It is not a quantity, but everything that is incomparable is more than - nothing. When? In ten days. Well, of course... It is unlikely that in the history of all days you will find ten days that last as long as these Montenegrin days when the arrival of the vaccine is announced.

Most call the "Sputnik V" vaccine Sputnik five, although the V in the name refers to the Latin word for victory, and is not a Roman numeral. The choice of name is interesting. Soviet medical achievements were largely unchallenged even by the staunchest ideological enemies during the Cold War. Apparently, modern Russia wanted to activate a channel of imperial nostalgia by choosing a name for the vaccine.

The now historic "Sputnik" was part of the space program that allowed the USSR to escape the Americans in the then Cold War space race. Companion was the name chosen for the first satellite launched in 1957. It was the beginning of the cosmic competition between the two planetary superpowers. What is the connection, someone will say, between the cosmic successes of the USSR and the vaccine created in today's Putin's Russia?

The choice of name suggests that today's Russia expects a kind of international triumph from this vaccine, with clear political benefits of such an outcome. Although today's Russia does not have half the weight of the former USSR, this kind of "calling on the ancestors" is needed to keep alive a great self-deception that is in the historical and spiritual foundations of today's Russia.

The companion of today's Montenegrin politics is a type of thoughtlessness that is showing itself more and more often.

Thus, neither guilty nor obliged, we received a public lesson in eugenics. Prime Minister Krvokapić shared with the public some of his thoughts on family and society. Uh. As soon as someone starts talking about the family as such, sooner or later it turns out to be a fraud, or an introduction to ideological right-wing ecstasy.

By the way, I believe that the family should be a personal matter of emotionally involved human beings rather than a training ground for political and ideological exaggerations of this or that kind. The state should think of the family only as a space for valid service, it should be an essential help to people. Because the family is first of all people, directed at each other (however many there are), and not some kind of political phantasms.

That is why one should be especially sensitive and careful when engaging in those rhetorical exhibitions about the family. And which, in fact, always talk more about some other things... Like that unpleasant episode with the educators. Then Krivokapić tried to fascinate the mentality for which the pinnacle of axiology, but also the key existential confirmation, is a primitive ritual known as "banging the fist on the table".

Since he set the idea of ​​decency as one of the goals of his own political mission, he would have to think carefully before surrendering to the so-called traditional methods. That equation is irreconcilable - traditional and polite rarely go together.

Another satellite, the old "companion", performs miracles. Follow Katnić's stunts in the fight to save the constitution, there will be spectacle. You can bet on the outcome: this is how Milivoje once defended Yugoslavia.

Dynamic times usually have companions in the form of shady types, fraudsters who manage to expose some mechanisms in marginal European societies. That's how we got the "American diplomat"? Probably, the milieu to which it belongs would be more appropriate to compare it with characters from Ludlam's novel, but this one is more like a creation from Bulgakov. "Foreign expert". Or, simply, is Montenegro today a completely Bulgakov area? Because, let's be honest, only Mikhail Afanasievich could find a convincing literary explanation for such unreal forms of reality.

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