Thursday, June 26 - It was a Vidovdan proclamation in parliament worthy of Gazimestan in 1989... As Andrija Mandić said...
We are the Assembly!
We are older than the Government, the Ministry and the Agency!
We are representatives of the people and we do not depend on agencies or ministries!
We declare ourselves the way we want because the citizens gave us that right!
And let him tell them, so that they know who is the boss in Montenegro... Or Montenegro, it comes to us the same way...
All that was missing was that anthological ending by the late extra-parliamentary boss of all Serbianness: If we can't work, we can fight...
For the leader of New Serbian Democracy, it was another small step towards his sacred goal. And I hope everyone understood it well, because at the same time, it was a big step towards the demise of the already struggling Montenegrin institutions.
For the already defunct democratic procedures, without which the existence of institutions - including the Parliament and the Government - makes no sense, it was a hawthorn stake...
But Andrija Mandić was talking about the spatial plan?
No, it's about Montenegro... And as a country, not just as a space...
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Friday, June 27 - I didn't really understand what Mandić's coalition partner Vladimir Joković was talking about the day before. I can only copy the part of the statement that says:
- significant infrastructure, institutional investment and strategic project...
- investing in knowledge, expertise and availability of services to every farmer...
- strengthening capacities for the use of European Union funds and the competitiveness of products on the market...
- a project that is part of a broader strategy to establish a network of regional offices, in accordance with the obligations from the EU accession process...
- improving the coordination of institutions, accelerating access to services, etc. etc...
Translated into our language, all of this together will be called the House of Agriculture, it will employ 46 workers, have 664 square meters plus 23 parking spaces.
And it will cost us 1.300.000 euros... And in words: one million three hundred thousand...
On loan!
Which we will all return, and only the parties will benefit from housing activists from the ruling coalitions according to the one employee, four votes system...
How do I know? Well, since the former government, ever since that imprisoned Minister of Agriculture opened the first pre-election Honey House a decade ago...
But this will not be a House for just one municipality, but for five - Berane, Andrijevica, Plav, Rožaje and Gusinje...
Regardless, the effect will be the same...
Because Berane, Andrijevica, Plav, Rožaje and Gusinje don't lack houses. They just lack roads, water pipes, power lines, tractors, lawnmowers...
The agronomists and veterinarians...
And, above all, farmers and livestock breeders, because - in the absence of the aforementioned (pre)conditions for farming - everyone who could fled those regions long ago...
And no house will bring them back, even if it's bigger than Bjelasica and Visitor combined...
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Saturday, June 28 - There is no hope for Andrija Mandić to return to factory settings, from the time when the reforms of the last Prime Minister of the SFRY, Ante Marković, and the beginnings of social democracy were much closer to his heart than the Serbian world and nationalism.
Although, with these internal upheavals, you never know...
Who would have thought that his favorite leader from Belgrade, despite respecting the cult of the common leader in Moscow, would go to Kiev to bow to the three hated leaders and even offer him the reconstruction of the cities that were destroyed by the favorite of the first two...
Despite this, the hope for Mandić's political reversibility is fragile, as Aleksandar Vučić personally testified. Awarding him for "exceptional contribution to strengthening friendly relations between Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia and dedication to preserving Serbian identity, culture and tradition in Montenegro."
And for the second time, also on the occasion of Vidovdan, to confirm...
Vučić knows how fragile Montenegrin-Serbian political empathy has been throughout history.
And he also knows about the joke, Milo Đukanović once said that "Slobodan Milošević is the most beautiful thing that could have happened to us" so what would...
However, everything would be as it should be if Mandić had not made another, but equally futile, attempt to force Vidovdan mythology into Montenegrin reality...
Serbia has been trapped by this myth since 1389 and will be for at least another 89 years, but that is its choice and its problem.
The choice of the state of Zeta and its then ruler Đurađ II Balšić was not to interfere in the conflict between Prince Lazar and Sultan Murat.
The first mixing of Montenegrin reality with the Vidovdan myth occurred five centuries later.
And in literature...
And not even in the work itself, but in the dedication...
Which would make its author, Peter the Second - but as a statesman and not a poet - turn in his grave to see what kind of misery this dedication still entertains us with (even) after two hundred years...
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Sunday, June 29 - Unlike the mythical ones, the real historical connections of Montenegro with Vidovdan only began in 1914.
And that was the Sarajevo assassination, for which King Nikola declared five days of mourning and condemned it as a "senseless terrorist act."
However, after the Vienna Ultimatum to Serbia, Montenegro sided with its neighbor and declared war on Austria-Hungary.
She emerged from that war without a state, without a name, and without a dynasty. To make the tragedy even greater, those on whose side she fought - Serbia and the great powers - took her life...
And this is the first time that Vidovdan has come to Montenegro...
The second connection dates back to 1921. When, through no fault of its own, it was erased from the map of European states also on June 28, the day the Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was adopted.
The third catastrophe occurred on Vidovdan in 1948 in the form of the IB Resolution. However, Montenegro itself was mostly to blame for Tito's NE paying Stalin more dearly than all the other member states of the FNRY combined.
The fourth defeat came on Vidovdan 1989, when Momir Bulatović and Milo Đukanović at Gazimestan chose the Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević instead of the Montenegrin state.
That decision cost Montenegro more than two hundred lives, eternal shame, three decades of decline, and who knows how many billions in debt that our neighbors will still have to collect from us.
And has any St. Vid's Day ever brought us anything nice?
Yes, on June 28, 2006, Montenegro became the 192nd member of the United Nations.
And that is the only Vidovdan that deserves her respect...
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Monday, June 30 - For ten years now, a small, relatively young but absolutely brave party has deserved my respect.
The best, despite the small mistakes that accompany every youth.
If it weren't for her, we would still be seeking justice from Vesna Medenica.
And enjoyed Milivoje Katnić's fight against corruption and crime.
And live the public effects of the patriotic sky-intimacy of state criminals.
And they strengthened the economy with the bankruptcies of Blaž Jovanić.
And they protected state institutions with flags and tongs from Veselin Veljović's balcony.
And they developed maritime traffic by filling the Ban family's budget.
And discreetly asked the foreigners whose land is under Onogošta...
AND...
And that's not all, but isn't it enough for a small minority government...
Thanks to the EU, DPS, DF, DCG and SNP for having a PES majority government, the largest in the world, for two years now...
And if they are a little...
PS And for Ura, on the occasion of the jubilee and the congress, I can only rewrite the message that I verbally sent to the Liberal Alliance a quarter of a century ago - at the rally 'Let's all go for Montenegro':
"Thank you for keeping me hopeful all these years, when others didn't want to or weren't allowed to, that Montenegro would one day be a country of freedom, justice and equality, like all others."
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