This Good Friday was somehow strange, as if nothing was happening except the crucifixion of Christ. Whichever channel I turn, wherever I stick an arrow in my laptop, I see only - "The saddest day of the year" and painted eggs that radiate joy.
And then, under the texts that are as different from each other as the eggs before dyeing, a god-pleasing exchange of messages. The Chetniks and the committee are competing as to who will kill whose mother and father in the most morbid way possible...
Well, occasionally some sane people would join in with calls for consensus and be immediately silenced on both sides...
I saw more aggression and hatred only last Friday, when the masses rushed to lynch Dritan Abazović because he was disturbing the peace of mind of the leader of the Kavac clan...
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Younger readers will not believe me, but this country was just three and a half decades ago - completely normal. Eggs were painted even then, but even on Easter they did not reach beyond the neighbor's yard.
The committees have long been resting in peace, both literally and politically, and the few surviving Chetniks pretended to be dead. As for shame, as for fear of the aged but very lively partisans and their successors in the Central Committee...
The secular government congratulated exclusively on secular holidays and exclusively from the cabinet. Crkvena fulfilled her obligations exclusively in temples, not on the streets and in the media. In them, once a year or less, only Metropolitan Danilo was seen with some of the heads of state. Of course, only on the occasion of an important date.
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Yes, the communists exaggerated in the practical elaboration of Marx's thesis that religion is opium for the people, but addressing God through the church as an intermediary was not forbidden. Nor was it punishable, since the beginning of the fifties, in any of the six republics of the SFRY.
The Montenegrins, just in case, behaved as if it was. They generally did not enter churches, but they did open the front door - for cattle.
Good connoisseurs of church conditions throughout the ages explained it with a very specific religious tradition. It did not include almost any of these rituals and ceremonies that have been practiced in vain in recent decades.
Disrespect for another tradition - that of construction - destroyed not only numerous village churches but also large old temples that every civilized atheist or agnostic would try to preserve at least as a cultural monument...
The restoration of temples was often written about in the early XNUMXs, but only from the point of view of monuments. Only at the end of that decade was the church resurrected in the media in both senses - both as a community of believers and as a religious institution...
Unfortunately, the wrong policy has also been resurrected. Secular, I don't deal with the spiritual since the Lord and Bishop registered the Montenegrin Orthodox Church as an NGO and not a religious community. And forever deprived her of the right to legally return her property. Due to such registration, the same rights to Montenegrin temples, from here to Strasbourg, can be claimed by Stev's Alternativa, Daliborkin's CGO and Mihailova's CPC.
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I wrote the wrong policy, too mild and completely inappropriate. The downfall of Montenegro did not start with a mistake, but with an organized criminal enterprise. Younger generations recognize it in their native language as "Serbian World" or - in the English language closer to them - under the name "Non paper".
My students remember it as the "Third Yugoslavia" because of which one Balkan war was already fought. Despite having enough time to study all the details, they still misinterpret it.
That criminal enterprise was formalized in 1992 in the form of the so-called FR Yugoslavia, but the unification of Montenegro and Serbia was not a consequence of the so-called war for peace rather than its cause.
Everyone who wanted to know knew this even before 1989. Collective amnesia can take over even witnesses, but the documents remain to testify. The "Third Yugoslavia" project was launched in Titograd, under that name, long before the Memorandum in Belgrade.
That original version of "Serbian World" remained in non-paper form until the war, and then the heavy artillery of the JNA was responsible for its distribution on the ground.
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Montenegrin contribution to the "Serbian world" is immortalized in photos and videos from Dubrovnik and its surroundings. Six months later, that Montenegrin disgrace was certified in a referendum. So transparent that votes were cast in city pubs and country houses, on car hoods and street trees...
Those recognized by Teren could vote wherever they found a convenient place, until they fell off their feet. Thus, not only a two-thirds turnout was achieved, but also almost one hundred percent (95,96 percent) support for the Chinese copy of the Podgorica Assembly.
- Are you in favor of Montenegro, as a sovereign republic, continuing to live in the joint state of Yugoslavia, completely on an equal footing with other republics that wish to do so - asked the young, beautiful and smart leadership of its subjects, after it had fully enlightened them beforehand shameful death on foreign territory and poverty in the domicile.
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It was, after the war for peace, the most monstrous fraud of the depees.
First, because little Montenegro lost its sovereignty in January 1989, and big Serbia has not been able to save its sovereignty from its sovereign since 1987 either.
Second, equality with a ten times stronger and larger state was not even theoretically possible.
The third fraud was hidden behind the meaningless construction "whoever wants it". It was known earlier that none of them would want it: Slovenia and Croatia have already been recognized by the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced secession, and Macedonia, which was separated a year earlier, has just sent off the last remnants of the JNA.
Did Serbia then want to stay with us? Well, we will never know because the government in that republic was the only one that denied its residents the right to a referendum.
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Few people mention what we knew today - the 1992 referendum was boycotted not only by the Liberal Alliance and other fighters for an independent Montenegro, but also by the largest and strongest party of Montenegrin Serbs - the People's Party.
I don't remember if it was then that her famous slogan "Always with Serbia, never under Serbia" was created, but I remember very well the struggle of the people to preserve Montenegrin statehood...
God forbid that someone in the Assembly dared to mention to Dragan Šoć and the other MPs that their home country is Serbia, let alone that they themselves say something similar...
It was then, in fact, that the foundations of Narodna Sloga, the LSCG and NS coalition that was created four years later, were struck. Formally - due to the removal of depees from power, fundamentally - due to the reconciliation of Montenegrins and Serbs, who were at odds with the politics of that government.
It was an age of wise leaders and such ambassadors. They are rid of depees who have no choice but to steal elections. National divisions were the foundation of their rule and the shortest way to their main goal - property.
The goal of the current heating of those divisions is to preserve that property. The winners of the elections, knowingly or unknowingly participating in the divisions, only facilitate the former regime's path to that goal...
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The new government refuses to accept that simple truth from the day it accepted the new job. Not realizing that the blame for postponing essential changes, whatever the opposition does and whatever it behaves, rests exclusively with the executive and legislative powers.
Both promised to start with the law on confiscation of looted property, on changes in the prosecutor's office that will place thieves and other criminals in prison, on lustration that will clean all the persecutors of innocent people from the public scene...
Instead, we got changes to the Law on Religious Communities, a draft of the fundamental contract with the largest among them and - divisions with no end in sight...
The fact that the tragic consequences of three decades of autocratic rule sometimes take on a caricature form is no longer a laughing matter. A country where the prime minister does not address his citizens from his cabinet but from his church is not written well at all.
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- Every person's life begins with Flowers, when our Lord entered Jerusalem, and it is especially expressed through Holy Sunday, when the Lord is betrayed by those closest to him, the others crucify him, and if it were not for all that, then it would only be this dead life of ours. However, after that comes the most important, the greatest holiday, which is Easter - Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić returned us to the pre-political era of the Montenegrin bishopric.
Is this possible, I am reading and trying to understand if he has become accustomed to the role of the said gentlemen who are betrayed by those closest to him, or if he just misinterpreted the monologue of Bishop Danilo "let it be, whatever may not be"...
And it cannot be that the Prime Minister, who is in charge of internal and foreign policy, takes over the responsibilities of a local priest.
Nor has it ever happened that the one who is in charge of strengthening the rule of law explains to us that a better life starts from Flowers, through Jerusalem to Holy Sunday, and not from the fight against crime and corruption, through law enforcement, to freedom, justice and equality for everyone in Montenegro. .
Is it realistic that even after six months a person does not realize that he was not chosen as the high priest who should promise us eternal life, but as the first minister whose obligation during this earthly life is to provide us with honest work, humane treatment, healthy education, a good book and. ..
And, above all, the freedom of choice that excludes the obligation to believe and guarantees the right to doubt. By God and all others.
And the prime minister, first of all...
PS The week before Strasna was also terrifying. So much hatred for one man and so much passion to crucify a young politician has not boiled over since the preparations for the assassination of the Serbian prime minister. Dritan Abazović was a minor at the time, so he may have to say that he is not afraid of murder. I, unfortunately, am not and I remember the same words of Zoran Đinđić very well!
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