"Ustašluk"

After reading the latest statements of Metropolitan Ioaniki, and remembering some less frisky ones, I thought that actually the so-called Under these circumstances, the underlying contract should simply not be signed. If the Government has a minimum of intellectual and political integrity, it should thank the gentlemen from the Serbian Orthodox Church, so that they can continue the story on another occasion... When the metropolitans are less poisonous and less deceitful.

In fact, it is incredible how that discursive toxin of banal insults never evaporates, never dissolves in today's Montenegro. You have serious people (metropolitans, intellectuals, artists) who can't move away from old, worn-out insults. Those formulas of hatred are surprisingly tenacious in Montenegrin society. And there is no doubt that discursive excursions into the most banal hatred and lies contribute to this, especially with the signature of an archpriest.

Reducing Montenegrin identity to some "anomalies" caused by totalitarian ideologies of one type or another is an old trick. It is almost unworthy to say it today - if it was "passing" in the eighties, today it is completely meaningless, even foolish. How they don't hold back a bit, if only for the sake of a better impression on the public. Or, in this way, they act on that public by hellishly lowering all possible intellectual criteria. Forever about the same obsessions. In the same way.

And this metropolitan talks about the return of the "chapel" to Lovćen. The old metropolitan also talked about it, claiming that God would make him see the chapel on the top of Lovćen in his lifetime. God, it seems, thought otherwise.

However, this does not prevent the new metropolitan from repeating the old mantras of the most down-to-earth Serbian nationalism.

Listen to this hilarity:

"We will wash away that sin when we make a departure from the evil communist thought and the cult of personality Jospip Broza and when we are cleansed of ustashluka which affected Montenegro to some extent", said the Metropolitan of Sičija a few days ago.

Then remember the pearl Irenaeus, the patriarch of the SPC who claimed, mind you, that the position of the Serbian churches was better during the Turkish era than in today's Montenegro, and that the position of the Serbs in Montenegro today is worse than in the NDH. Without - “somewhat”.

I cannot understand that serious people are not ashamed to talk such nonsense. By doing so, they disqualify themselves from any valid and necessary story, and it is not that there are no topics: from our fluid identities to the place of the church in postmodern society... But - seriously, not like this. You will never hear them talk about any meaningful topic, but for every national hysteria they are the first in line.

The metropolitan thinks that the "Ustašluk" is to blame for everything. This word is taken from Milosevic propaganda machinery of the early nineties, and this is what, obviously, decisively shapes its meaning. Both for the metropolitan and for his flock. It has no semantic layer - just a sound that evokes associations and emotions. Of course, the explanation follows - that everything will be better, and that the chapel will return to Lovćen when Montenegro is "cleansed" of the Ustashluk.

He did not explain, and it would be interesting to hear, how he imagines that cleaning. The word "cleaning" has far more sinister connotations in politics than in the realm of housekeeping. Whenever it was "cleaned up", history teaches us, it was a crime. According to the law: the greater the "cleansing" - the greater the crime.

However, one of the most dangerous statements is that Montenegro is designed to be a "little Ukraine". And that's what a man designed to be a "little Amphilochie" says, at least in the sense that, unlike Djedo, he agrees to everything Vučićeva requirements. And the cult of personality, which in the case of the current Serbian president does not bother him as it does with Broz.

Signing any contract, fundamental or roof, with a church whose bishop says such things, it would be insane and self-deprecating.

At least before the Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Cetinje does not clarify what kind of "cleansing" he envisioned and who is planned to be "little Russia" for "little Ukraine".