Self-confrontation. Confronting yourself. It is a basic condition for recognizing one's own responsibility. A clear view of things. The readiness to act comes immediately after such an insight...
Here, let's say, isn't it unusual that after the daily publication of new chapters of the Montenegrin epistolary novel, none of the people who managed the police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the government, and the state, at a time when all that we are reading, is still announcing that so to speak, common practice. If the mentioned addresses are not announced, we will not actually find out not only how it all worked, but how such a thing was even possible.
Who among them knew about this, about these "methods" of work, or was all this done by some "renegade" group, on their own? Was there an elder (leader) over Lazović Sr.? Did he also have to account to someone, according to the rules of the job? How did he do it, and in front of whom did he explain the "actions" of his son, a secret agent?
After what we read every day, will everything remain just a story (and you know how it is with stories - time turns them into smoke), or will we live to know authorship and responsibility. It would be a step in some kind of social self-confrontation.
After all, does anyone have an obligation, from the state side, to explain what happened and how it was possible.
In those police-criminal circles, the signatories of these lines are particularly disgusted by the apparently quite common disgusting nationalist orgy.
How is a "Montenegrin" sign possible among people whose consciousness has not moved away from "Bulls" and "Turks". They are not Montenegrins, of course. Nor the Serbs. It is an ordinary criminal fraternity, which is easy to understand in its primitivism.
In the early nineties, when the modern form of the Montenegrin political idea was born in contrast to what was happening then, this was a key moment of separation. National hatred, anti-Muslim hysteria, suspicion of minorities, anti-modernity... it was all clear and unambiguous on the other side.
And then in that team of Milosevic's stormtroopers, on that "other side", one of the leaders was Đukanović. Well, don't blame me for the fact that it seems quite natural to me that such and such a consciousness is close to him, at least historically. How then...
In his case, when it comes to that phase of the biography, we have repression and not self-confrontation, although the latter would be many times more useful.
In the Montenegrin emancipation movement that was born in the early nineties, there was a clear agenda: modernity against dubious tradition, multiculturalism and the European story, without the rest. The most important was, of course - anti-war engagement.
I'm afraid that this attitude towards minorities is still a clear difference between the old liberals and the new party "Montenegros": you remember the one who, already in the second sentence, cursed Dritan as a "Muslim mother".
What is the difference between what we read as the thoughts (ugh!) of a Montenegrin civil servant and the shameful concert in the church yard in Srebrenica on the day of commemoration of the monstrous genocide?
The agreement between the one who sang in Srebrenica and the high-ranking Montenegrin police officials in the third decade of the twenty-first century is eerie. And he got an appointment, look at the miracles, from the government that swears by its multiculturalism and Europeanness. (By the way: the modern idea of Europe rests on self-confrontation and the benefits of such an insight.) In our variant, it is exclusively "stories" and a suit - until you scratch... And then you see all this.
How to trust such "Montenegros"?
Perhaps such clarifications - as far as the topic is far from festive - are in order for a holiday such as the Thirteenth of July.
Because it is a symbolic day of Montenegrin self-confrontation, in both historical occasions - the one from 1878 and the one from 1941 - and that is why it is a big date.
It would be nice if the memory of such a day inspires this society to new and much-needed self-confrontations.
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