Long time no see…
That's how my brilliant reader contacted me. My one Elena Ferrante, whom the more attentive followers of "The Hunter" remember from some of the earlier episodes. Between trips to Berlin and then Mostar, from one doctor to another, she doesn't always have time to send a review of our reality which, through my subjective prism, comes out every Tuesday.
When, here she is a few weeks later, last Wednesday. This time she writes column after column, discreetly signaling to me that in the story about the liberators and traitors from World War II, maybe I missed something?! A few sentences, for example, about “left turns”! Because every crime is a crime, black and red! I tried to justify myself to her with one of the earlier columns where all that was said, but who remembers what happened yesterday, let alone 15 days ago.
My brilliant reader just started saying that she's not interested in politicians.
I have no idea where he is going, what our duke Andrija M. is doing and saying. I have long been uninterested in the character and work of Montenegrin politicians, all of them, not just him. Because I am aware that neither they, nor those from the NGO sector, can emancipate our fallen and humiliated society. The former fight exclusively for power, and when they ride it, they do not let go of the reins easily. Even less horses. Because for them, power is a burden, personal and not a common good. That is why they dig with their feet and hands to stay in the saddle as long as possible in order to employ their loved ones, arrange a few tenders for their godfathers, see a little of the world, take another daily allowance and a variable.
On the other hand, NGO leaders (with rare exceptions) have a “shadow government”, which is not financed from the budget, from our money like the first one, but from grants. From the money of the working people of America and England. But they too, again with rare exceptions, look an awful lot like professional politicians, so it seems to me that if they jumped into their saddles they would do the same thing as those from the Government do. After all, everyone who moved from an NGO to politics ended up ingloriously! From Med to Dritan.
And why?! Because our family, the “basic cell of society”, has been destroyed! And then there is the school. The second basic cell. Emancipation starts from preschool institutions, where there are currently 50 children to one, or rather one, teacher. They, this one or that one, feed 50 little mouths from the same spoon, because objectively they cannot feed that many otherwise. Furthermore, in many groups of children there is no psychologist, speech therapist, social worker, etc., etc., etc.…
Then all this continues in elementary schools, where, again, honor to the exceptions, teachers with modest knowledge work, through high schools where professors suffer mobbing from both students and their parents. The so-called new elites. On social networks we see videos of professors sharing pizza on a park bench during an excursion, while, across the street from them, some of their students are feasting and bragging in Michelin restaurants. One high school graduate bought chips for 5000 euros in a casino, then spun roulette or whatever and won some serious money, which he then threw to his friends, like his idols from the XNUMXs...
I wouldn't waste words on the quality of our higher education institutions, state and private universities... If there are about 20.000 universities in the world, I believe ours are in the second half of the scale. Bad upbringing and education are an excellent breeding ground for bad seeds.
Bad upbringing and education do not create people of integrity, intellectuals, experts... That's why we are a country of dumb university professors, dumb academics, and what is most sad, dumb students! A little morgen, or, rather, tomorrow, on ours.
That's why it's completely normal and acceptable for us to have people operated on by "made" doctors, or alcoholic doctors... Back then, one of them verbally attacked a journalist. It seems that everyone missed the fact that he must have been an alcoholic even before the attack and that his quasi-doctor colleagues, along with the quasi-management of the clinic, and the quasi-minister, knew and hid this fact...
We, my friend, are a society torn apart at every seam, with the worst upbringing, education, healthcare, judiciary, and public administration in Europe.
And both the position and the opposition know all this! And they accept it. And they only deepen it. They have concluded that there is no help for us, so every now and then the bones of the Partisans, Chetniks, Ustashas are thrown around... Horror and horror! The Partisans and Chetniks are a painful topic for me too, because my people died on both sides... A sad and difficult story... But typically ours. I am very much against any attempt to whitewash history, but I also mind the relativization of every crime.
There are no good and bad crimes and no good and bad criminals. Every killing of an unarmed civilian in war is a crime, as is the killing of an unarmed soldier without prior trial, or of civilians who found themselves in the company of those soldiers, even if they were Ustashas and Chetniks.
The shootings and murders of thousands of Italians in Istria and tens of thousands of Volksdeutschers in Vojvodina during and after 1945 were a heinous and horrific genocide... The various burnings of cemeteries and pits full of civilians were monstrous crimes, not some kind of "left turn".
To finally make a point. The Partisans did not cooperate with the occupiers, but the Chetniks did, there is no whitewashing here and there should be none! On the other hand, all crimes (and not just the crimes of the Chetniks and Ustashas) must and should be discussed, objectively, so that they are not repeated. Because history has shown us that we are prone to crimes.
It is wonderful for an author to have such a brilliant audience. Which, just in case, warns him when he underemphasizes something. Or forgets to mention it. And what I wrote 15 days ago about “red Orthodoxy” and the organized crime group of communists and priests that sows fear and death throughout Russia and Ukraine, along the way glorifying Stalin, through hundreds of new memorials in his honor - that was clearly not enough. It must be repeated. Because that is also an undeniable historical fact - that the partisans knew how to “exceed their authority”! Or to “get carried away”! And for ideological or even personal reasons, they even killed their comrades from the war, and how many “domestic traitors” they killed. Later, the communists used and abused the great victory of the partisans over fascism in an even more brutal way, for their backward and bloody ideology.
There you go. I hope I've "revised" enough now. And that my brilliant reader will be more satisfied than last Tuesday. Now let the Slovenians declare the announcer Mandić persona non grata, so that everything can go back to normal. Because I can't forgive him for desecrating that wonderful, partisan country, today the flagship of the EU, with that "whitewashing" on the Zidan Bridge.
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