Denial

In the heyday of Yugoslav socialism - and when I say that I mean the period between Tito's death and the Eighth Session - it was a popular model of social mobilization and promotion of activism regarding a problem - by declaring a week (week) of struggle against... this or that. From the week of the fight against poverty, racism or neo-colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa, to the week of the fight against cancer or bureaucracy... But soon the graffiti of "the week of the fight against the week" (or vice versa) appeared, and things went the way they were going. Our wrong turn from horror…

Why this late Yugoslav memory in this post-Yugoslav deaf age? I remembered that custom, because it seemed to me that last Sunday the current government implemented a very effective and broad action called "The Week of Struggle against the Current Government". And, as they set out, they won't need opponents. They are amazingly effective on their own.

Minister Leposavic tried to promote a rhetoric that is falsifying to say the least, but it is also deeply unworthy. And today's time and a young man.

I cannot understand the reasons why (some) people deny Srebrenica, or Auschwitz or Jasenovac? Who do they believe they are “helping”?

Nevertheless, his formulation, in the end, in the name of some "future" (what kind?) and "everyone is the same to me", he wants to present real victims and their executioners as equal victims, is the worst of the whole wicked story.

In order to do this (equalize victims and executioners), it is necessary to offer such a perspective that will fit into the superficial and rhetorically "simple" narrative of "reconciliation" that has been on the scene in Montenegro for some time now. Meaningful reconciliation cannot be based on the rehabilitation of crimes and criminals. Reconciliation is possible only after an unequivocal agreement about what happened and why it happened that way. Any reconciliation that does not take into account this kind of rational insight is just a hibernation of conflicts, leaving confrontations for some other time... And that is not reconciliation. It's taking a break. Before what?

"Certainly I will not dispute the legal validity of the decisions of international bodies, nor will I dispute the right of Bosniaks and Muslims to perceive this crime in their hearts as permanent suffering and tragedy." Let's repeat, Minister Leposavic is ready to allow people to "perceive this crime as permanent suffering and tragedy"!? Touching. What generosity.

But the fact that we are still dealing with proving (and denying) Srebrenica is deeply disturbing in itself. It is a symptom of a sick society, which thereby shows that it is not stronger than its illnesses, that it is collapsing and weakening... Nevertheless, the breadth of the reaction to Leposavic's malignant arrogance indicates that the civic substance in Montenegro exists, and that it is able to recognize such obsessions and obsessions .

The Minister of Finance, perceived by the public as the lordly face of the current government, behaved in a completely unruly manner. Because maybe it's irredeemably old-fashioned, but I believe that lying and lordship don't go together. At least that's how it used to be. His claim that there was no thought of taxing pensions indicates a rather non-standard attitude towards the truth. It is not good for a young and serious politician, who acts as a man of manners and knowledge, to build public credibility in this way. Let him not make it difficult for people who want to believe him.

Pensioners trembled, definitely, at least for a day. Obviously, the public's reaction was the reason for this minister to decide to deny it. Which certainly would not have happened if Vijesti had not published what they had come up with. A cynic would say - it is a serious society - where journalists tell the truth and politicians lie. Everyone does their job, in other words.

Don't make such statements next time. Lying is lying, even with good manners.