Did I say a long time ago that this list will be historic...
By the way of scheduling and postponing, blackmail and boycott, political trade and national combat readiness, lack of reason and excess of hate speech, and especially by the action unity of the majority government and the majority in the opposition in lowering the reputation of Monstat and those employed in it...
In short, it's not historical in any good way, that's why I can't quote myself and repeat that - they were golden for me, I'm all for Njegoš...
Along the fence - just in case, and especially in case of a wrong association - that I am not referring to Peter the Second but to the First.
And the latter, when it comes to Montenegrin rulers, whose statesmanship was focused on the unity and future of Montenegro and not on divisions and the past.
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And what was missing from the Second?
In terms of literature and philosophy, nothing at all. In terms of politics, he lacked exactly what had graced his uncle.
But he could not have known that his work would be misread?
Of course not, it is the writer's right to practice literary freedom as he wishes.
Nevertheless, Peter the Second was also - or above all - a statesman... And statesmen are obliged to know what the mythologizing of the past leads to, both of their own country and especially of foreign countries.
The unprovoked importation of other people's myths led to a division in Montenegrin society, the political consequences of which over the course of almost two centuries grew in proportion to the literary greatness of Peter the Second...
Why? Well, because not only the ignorant masses, but also many learned interpreters of the Garland of the Mountain, interpreted some verses as postulates of state policy.
Ignoring, intentionally or out of ignorance, the real politics of the author of that song.
- Perhaps the right word, for all of us, is Yugoslavs - this is how Petar the Second wrote to Ban Jelačić and the Illyrian Movement in his capacity as a statesman.
That letter, like all his political legacy, remained unread...
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There is another reason left unwritten, because of which I declared an ordinary statistical work to be historical in advance...
At the first mention of the approximate term of the census, it was clear that on that occasion the couriers of Sava Kovačević and Pavle Đurišić would only deliver items from history.
Not only those from the middle of the twentieth century, but also much older...
And the list would, and just like that...
And there will be more of those shipments, it's not a problem that they and those who send them are bad - it's important that it rings...
And badiavni - according to the interpretation of old, good and extinct linguists, from the era when national promotion was not even a local, let alone an Olympic sports discipline - are those who have nothing to do or do not know how to do anything useful.
And they kill boredom with some futile, often (very) wicked activities. They gossip, poke their nose where it shouldn't be, come up with nonsense that - despite the absence of meaning - is not harmless either to others or to the social community...
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Why do I think these post-census discussions are bad?
Well, for the reasons that Marko Kovačević announced in the Parliament, interpreting the census in a way not recorded in history. Not in Montenegro, there was a lot of that in this and the last century, but in the history of the census that starts in 48...
- The Serbian people have shown a certain firmness. In the previous hundred years, several totalitarian ideologies in this area tried to do everything to prevent the Serbian people from being in Montenegro - that's how it started.
That's right, the strength of the Serbian people - not specific but really great - can be envied by Montenegrins and all other peoples in their common state...
Well, now, how much this firmness will benefit the Serbs, I would not say on this historical occasion.
But I would like something about historical facts from the previous hundred years.
On this occasion, I will never mention the 18th again, the results of the latest rise of nations have put enough pressure on the other side...
Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1924, all the Serbian people lived in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
The creator and leader of the first among the totalitarian ideologies that Kovačević accuses of "trying to do everything so that the Serbian people do not exist in Montenegro" was King Aleksandar Karađorđević.
And he didn't try, but in 1918 he succeeded - there is no Montenegro.
Whether for himself or for the Serbian people - the devil will know, you never know with kings...
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You never know with Andrija Mandić either, especially who he will hit. And at the beginning of the historic day, in which we were shown the b(r) state of the nations, the first victim of the President of the Assembly was Vice President Zdenka Popović.
Not so long ago, she did not allow the opposition to burn on any topic other than the agenda.
Such strictness has not been remembered since the nineties and wartime parliamentarism.
Mandić is too mild not to have ignored the agenda and allowed a congress of admiration for the above-mentioned statistical work, but he gave and provoked retorts with a lot of enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, no one from the opposition answered one of his questions about Marko Kovačević, even procedurally...
- Then someone is surprised that I think this young man is one of the best politicians - that's how he was the first among the deputies to see his parliamentary and party colleague...
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Unprovoked, because "one of the best politicians" a minute earlier - but not for the first time - first failed the exam in politics, and then in history.
- The Serbian language, which was also the basis of every attack from the side, both in the First World War when there was Austro-Hungarian occupation and in the Second when we had the Petrovdan Assembly, was the first to be attacked. The Serbian language was under attack for the previous twenty years as well - Kovačević, in his national enthusiasm, clashed with the facts.
I really don't have any knowledge about the consequences of the Austro-Hungarian occupation in terms of the Serbian language.
The information I have says that half a century earlier, she treated the reformer of the Serbian language, Vuk Karadžić, with great respect and for an extended period of time, in a very hospitable and friendly manner.
She did not neglect the Montenegrin side either, the Mountain Wreath of Peter the Second was printed in Vienna, the truth is in Latin. Not because of disrespect for the Cyrillic alphabet, but because Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša wanted the timeless work "not only to be read by Orthodox people"...
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As for the above-mentioned attack on Serbia by the Austro-Hungarian occupation, after its end, the official language on the territory of the late Montenegrin state was Serbian.
Government, church, army, politics, economy and education were equally Serbian...
And that lasted for more than two decades.
And that's why not even one of the mediocre, let alone the best, politicians would ever think of equating that - or any other - occupation with the Petrovdan Council.
The only consequence of which - the declaration of independent Montenegro under the Italian protectorate - lasted only one day.
And to the "in the last twenty years" just a short reply:
After the dissolution of the SFRY, in which the official language was Serbo-Croatian/Croatian-Serbian, the official languages in the four former member states were named after states and not after nations...
If it were by nation, in Bosnia and Herzegovina they would call it Bosniak, not Bosnian...
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I know, now there are questions about what I have to say about the comments of Montenegrins after the results of the census.
Nothing I haven't already said...
You asked - look, that's all I have to say, with sincere apologies to the rare ones who figured it all out in time.
What time do I mean?
Well, for the period between two Octobers, 1988 and 1991. Then the results of all future censuses were drawn for everyone.
The current situation, according to the 1981 census, looked like this: 400.488 or 68,54 percent of Montenegrins.
After the completion of the so-called AB revolution and the enthronement of the "young, beautiful and smart", in 1991 a deficit of - 20.021 was registered.
There were 380.467 Montenegrins or 61,6 percent.
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They made the greatest statistical and national comeback during the nine years of the rule of the unique trio - Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović and Svetozar Marović - and five years after the second and third became the First and Second.
In 2003, 112.798 Montenegrins were registered as missing!
How many of them were national flyers and how many died - it is not difficult to calculate by the death rate between the two lists...
After five decades - the census (i) by nation was organized for the first time in 1948. and Montenegrins were 90,67 percent - that nation ceased to be the majority and (p)remained only the most numerous - 267.669 or 43,16 percent.
In 1992, Montenegro stopped being a state of the Montenegrin people and others who live there.
That in the new Constitution the "young, beautiful and smart" only showed a great ability to anticipate - to predict something that is yet to happen and to prepare for the arrival of the expected event - is not realistic...
It will rather be that it was their plan and (or) the realization of the plan of their leader Slobodan Milošević, under the joint spiritual leadership of SANU and SPC.
The year 2011 brought a slight increase in the number - 11.196, that is, 278.865 or 44,98.
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The last balance from 2023 shows a minus of 22.429.
There are now 256.436 Montenegrins or 41,12 percent.
Until the next list...
Or until the European Union suggests us, that is. forbid, that we continue to be counted...
P.S. Uh, it's good that the 43rd Government is prohibited from participating in the preparation and implementation of the census. That is why I hereby express my great gratitude to the DPS for the timely call for a boycott, and I am especially grateful for the fact that he prevented Dritan Abazović from the dangerous plan to - on the order of Aleksandar Vučić - add to the census so that there are fewer Montenegrins...
Bonus video:
