Friday, February 14 - Comrade partisans, did we fight for this? After the liberation struggle and the socialist revolution, the first fighters admonished the (single) party bosses for the arrogance and wastefulness of the directors...
Illegal enrichment incompatible with communist ideals was mostly discussed as part of the last item of the party meeting...
During the reconstruction of a war-ravaged country, there were many more pressing issues than the misuse of public goods, which we today call state property...
Arrogant and wasteful directors were a rare occurrence, and to deal with them, the last item on the agenda, written under the name of criticism and self-criticism, was enough...
The last scandal I remember happened in the late 1980s, when word got out that the brother of the president of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Montenegro had - two apartments...
The state newspaper checked the cadastre, published the title deed and...
The brother returned the apartment, the party leader offered his resignation. Which was not formally accepted, but he did not remain in office until the end of his term...
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Saturday, February 15 - I was reminded of that affair the other night when the news program Vijesti started at half past six...
The bigger the losses, the more they pay the directors of state-owned companies... Three thousand, then three and a half, then four and finally four thousand seven hundred...
It's not possible, this is some news from the former regime, the technology must have gone haywire, that's what I thought...
And I went to the portal...
And I found the aforementioned amounts down to the cent, along with the names of the directors and the names of the companies...
Not to mention, it's a long list, what's important is what they have in common.
That all directors are appointed by the state government, and that the fate of all state-owned enterprises is determined by Catullus's maxim, "What you see failing, consider it to be failing."
If not in the fall, then tonight...
Comrade partisans, did we fight for this, old fighters from '41 would ask, but I know that neither partisans nor comradeship have long been among the living...
I also know that the bearers of the 2020 memorial are alive, but they inherit a different tradition...
There's only one thing I don't understand, how come there isn't at least one person who asks:
Chetnik brothers, did we fight for this...
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Sunday, February 16 - Of the goals for which the Chetnik movement fought, the most famous is the national one. Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of the Chetnik social program...
I don't even know if he even existed, but if he did, I believe he was more humane than what Dragoljub Mihailović's supporters support today...
And that's why, whenever Prime Minister Milojko Spajić announces some decision about a better life and higher standard of living for pensioners - and not only for them - I wonder if it's possible that the rest of the ruling three-party coalition supports this...
Not because I expect them to suddenly show sympathy for everyone living off their pensions, but at least out of a sense of responsibility to and towards their own voters...
In the last parliamentary elections, there were only slightly less than a third of them...
That third certainly includes professors, doctors, engineers, journalists, lawyers, economists and others who have paid contributions to the Pension Fund for three and a half decades or even longer.
And, in the end, robbed...
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Monday, February 17 - Of that money, which was given to the state only for safekeeping, one hundred million euros was spent on increasing the minimum pension to 450 euros.
74.000 voters had such incomes on the eve of the parliamentary elections...
The Europe Now movement received 77.203 votes...
Ignorance or corruption, that's the question now, but there's no doubt that this isn't a huge reservoir of votes...
And that the experience of DPS was used to use that reservoir, from the more than successfully implemented campaign known as One Employee - Four Votes...
A minimum pension could have brought in even more, considering that not only many unemployed children live on it, but also their grandchildren...
And what happened to the tens of thousands of aforementioned professors, doctors, engineers, journalists, lawyers, economists...?
Nothing, their pensions have not been increased yet... The last time this was done was by the government of Dritan Abazović...
Harmonization by force of law will bring them, on average, about forty euros in a few days...
For me, if I calculated correctly, 42,3.
Enough so that I can't put up with the pain of my friend, a typist with an elementary school education, who is fed up with the fact that our pensions have differed by about a hundred euros so far...
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Tuesday, February 18 - I don't have those worries, I've been used to the state financially humiliating me as an employer ever since democracy arrived in our region in 1990...
I can't get used to the humiliation that the new European Commissioner for Enlargement is inflicting on not only me but everyone else who turns on their brains before turning on their laptops.
I couldn't do it even when European commissioners, diplomats, and special envoys were organizing congresses of admiration for Milo Đukanović, let alone now when his Chinese copies are in power in an attempt...
The admiration that Marta Kos expresses for such a government is not only exaggerated but also unfounded.
So much so that now she irresistibly resembles a Chinese copy of the representatives of the European community from the nineties - Lord Peter Carrington, Robert Badinter, David Owen and others...
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Wednesday, February 19 - Did I expect too much? No, EU integration has long been just a fairy tale for adults... And a long time ago I read what the former Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the now opposition SDS said about the new Commissioner, even before she was elected:
- Marta Kos is connected to the former Yugoslav State Security Service, known as UDBA. She is part of a system created during the communist Yugoslavia, and her influence cannot be separated from that structure - it is just part of the serious accusations made by Janez Janša.
Can he be trusted, I don't know...
Commissioner Kos has denied these claims on several occasions.
Anyway, I don't have faith in her, but that has nothing to do with the past, but with what she says about Montenegro over and over again, repeating platitudes that she herself doesn't believe in.
And I really feel like breaking not only my laptop but also my TV whenever he starts saying that "Montenegro is making great progress on its path to the European Union"...
This humiliation of common sense would seem less striking if, at least once in the continuation of the presentation, she mentioned at least one concrete detail of this progress...
It can't, because it doesn't exist except in papers stamped by EU officials in Brussels...
And in those that arrive regularly from Podgorica, despite the fact that the state government knows best that the story of Montenegro's progress is actually a fairy tale for adults...
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Thursday, February 20 - This promotion of boycotting stores as an effective method for lowering prices seems like a fairy tale to me.
Especially this week-long boycott of Voli, which will harm Dragan Bokan less than domestic farmers...
If you don't believe me, read the analysis by the Faculty of Economics on margins, taxes and excise duties...
I'm not good at telling it, I'm not good at economics...
In domestic politics, not to pretend to be modest, I deserve at least a nine...
And that's why, instead of retail chains, I'm running for boycott of political chains...
For starters - the Government and the Parliament...
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