If anyone still does not understand how the DPS managed to rule Montenegro for thirty years, changing its state status twice and at least twice as many key state policy goals, the answer can be found in the echoes and reactions to the case of the school ship Jadran .
It is not something new that a seemingly insignificant interstate property dispute starts an avalanche of unresolved problems from the nineties, nor did it happen only in Montenegro.
It is only new, and for that I thank all the governments from 1990 to 2020, that Montenegro will not be remembered as a leader in the region only for endemic corruption, but also for endemic lies about its participation in the last(?) Balkan wars.
The consequences of those lies will only become unbearable...
When, a few years after the referendum, my friends from https://javniservis.me launched a fight against collective amnesia, their witty remarks could only be funny to that part of the public who could not or did not want to understand them.
And not that it's not a laughing matter, but for God's sake, the fact that their main goal - to include the national media service in the fight against forgetting and even more dangerous whitewashing of the early XNUMXs - has not started to be realized even two decades later. .
Thanks to the RTCG, both the one captured until 2020 and the one released, the collective aMNEsia is definitely the most successful project of the former regime.
Thanks to that project, Montenegro's confrontation with the truth about the so-called the war for peace was postponed for three decades.
And thanks to that postponement, we are in for another repeat of history at some point.
The only question is whether it will be tragic or farcical.
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That the majority of young people in Montenegro do not know the truth about the role of their homeland in the war of the XNUMXs is no surprise after three decades of DPS's unprecedented effort to paint its own past as thoroughly as possible.
After that whitewashing, only one true sentence remained in the History textbooks: that the Montenegrin reservists were on the Dubrovnik battlefield.
The lack of interpretation of such important historical events could somehow be explained by the disagreement of contemporary historians and the short historical distance.
But only the deliberate, long-term and well-organized expansion of aMNEsia can explain the fact that, even after thirty-three years, students were not offered an answer even to those five basic journalistic questions.
Who sent those Montenegrin citizens to attack another country?
What were they doing there?
How were 116 civilians killed and 443 captured, at the command of superior officers or at the discretion of individuals?
When, that is were the Montenegrin reservists ordered to destroy and loot property in the occupied territories?
Where and on whose order did the looted property end up?
If the answers to at least these simple questions had been found in time in at least one History textbook, today "other birds would be singing to us"...
And not only on war-torn social networks...
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The only thing more dangerous than the ignorance of the young generations is the brainwashing witnessed by the Montenegrin war "feats".
Because they not only testified, but every day from then until now they had the opportunity to hear at least one piece of information from other witnesses and - more importantly - participants and creators of the war.
Despite this, of the 3.500-4.000 comments on social networks available to me regarding the ownership of the ship Jadran, more than half of the authors still claim that the war in 1991 was started by Slovenia and Croatia, and the JNA defended Yugoslavia...
For the truth about the beginning of the war, an average media literate person needs just as much time as logging in and writing comments.
Even in 1991, it was clear to the average connoisseur of the Constitution of the SFRY that both Slovenia and Croatia had only exercised their constitutional right to secede, which the Constitution of the SFRY guaranteed to all sovereign republics.
That the JNA did not defend those borders but those on the line Karlovac - Karlobag - Ogulin - Virovitica, half a year before the war, only those who believed their eyes more than their politicians, popes and generals could see that.
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After the establishment of the Hague Tribunal, everyone could hear the truth live, in the TV broadcasts of the trial.
And the full one, not just the one from the indictment.
That the JNA was transformed from a defensive and patriotic army into an occupying and criminal one was best proven by the defense of its generals and lower command staff before that international court.
From the confessions of its commanders, the entire Yugoslav public could learn that the JNA started military preparations for that war as early as 1986.
Purely as a preventive measure, they tried to justify both themselves and the army.
Fortunately, as a precaution, some republics also submitted the archives of their state security services to the Hague Tribunal. Which more reliably than all the testimonies explains why the JNA first went to war in Croatia, and half a year later in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
And why did she withdraw from Slovenia after the ten-day war "because they seem to want to secede and we don't seem to give it to them"... And she left Macedonia not only without a single bullet, but also - without a word.
If the Army, at that moment the third strongest in Europe, really cared about SFRY, it would not have defended it only up to the borders of the self-proclaimed Serbian autonomous areas in Krajina, Herzegovina, Slavonia, etc...
From Virovitica to Preševo, to make it clearer...
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And what would have happened to Montenegro if it entered that war without any need or rational motive, and that was not clear to many inside and outside it on September 23, 1991, when Vitaljina and Brgat were attacked.
Those who did were in the minority.
And they were silenced in a timely manner, and that violently, since the beginning of the above-mentioned military preparations of the JNA in 1986. The political dimension of which was presented mainly in the media, and only in parts, until the Eighth Session of the League of Communists of Serbia. And it was officially disclosed in September 1987.
Why did the Serbian communists think that - 42 years after the defeat of the Chetnik movement in the Second World War - they were implementing the program of the Serbian Chetniks from 1942? The answer to that question remains the responsibility of Serbian politicians, historians, journalists, sociologists...
The tragedy that Montenegro created for itself is more for psychological observation...
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Until then, the inexplicable human dimension of the first Montenegrin occupying and shameful war remains... After four hundred years of defensive and honorable warfare, which made it famous throughout the world.
The horrors of the crimes committed can be seen much better after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. With the difference that by decreeing the attack, Putin publicly accepted political responsibility for the consequences. And criminal, if the international court for war crimes in Ukraine is ever established...
The Montenegrin authorities, unfortunately, continue to place the blame on the JNA. Although a member of its supreme command and the supreme leader of the then young, beautiful and smart leadership claimed as early as December 1991 that he had no idea "what Montenegrins are looking for around Dubrovnik".
Despite the fact that Slobodan Milošević did not tell the truth, and that he personally demanded that attack, Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović and Svetozar Marović were obliged to send him the same message that, for no reason at all, two previously addressed to the Montenegrin state leadership:
- We have enough courage, knowledge and smarts, we just need you to leave - that's how they should have answered him.
They didn't, because he brought them to power because of that war.
They didn't know? Did they believe that "30.000 Ustasha crossed Debeli Brijeg"? And that 40 Serbs were really killed in Pakrac?
Malo morgen, what would Milošević say.
Who announced the war before August 1988 and the rally of alleged support for the Serbs in Kosovo.
And he began to provide support for the war that summer with the yogurt revolution, which ended in Novi Sad - the symbolism is a miracle - exactly on October 5.
The revolution in Titograd, which began in October 1988 as the so-called, was part of the preparations for the war. anti-bureaucratic and ended in January 1989 as - Great Serbian chauvinist counter-revolution.
The following summer, a log revolution was launched in Kninska Krajina. But not so-called, but - literal...
Slovenia and Croatia declared independence only in June 1991.
So much for the start of the war...
In honor of the beginning of Montenegro's confrontation with reality...
PS And the reality is that the unsettled accounts from the nineties (remain) the main stumbling block in the formation of another Government... Or there are still unknown people who think that the attitude of the Bosniak Party towards the entry of the New Serbian Democracy and the Democratic People's Party really has something to do with the EU agenda and NATO on Ukraine...
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