If you don't calm down, tractors are the only solution! Either you will sit in peace and respect the state of Montenegro or you will be in trouble! So speak Serbian in Serbia!”, allegedly said a certain Dragan Maslovar to SNP MP Slađana Kaluđerović, and provoked a bitter reaction from her party. It is almost superfluous to add - and justified. Because when someone calls for persecution because of a different political stance or opinion, then that is fascism. The SNP is right. And if there is some good in evil, then it is good that the SNP has finally understood it. If they had wanted to see and follow the same in the early 90s, during the time of the unified DPS, there probably would never have been tractors. Because there would have been no fascism and crimes that were seen at one point in the episode with tractors and the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Croatia.
The reason for this Facebook incident and hate speech was the all-night lamentation of MP Kaluđerović, in the show “Reflektor”, on the topic of the necessity of introducing the Serbian language into the Constitution, as an official one. With a touching but false explanation that the majority of Montenegrin citizens declared themselves in this way in the census. “Referencing ‘tractors as the only solution’ in the historical context of our region represents an open allusion to persecution and ethnic cleansing”, said this party, which is an accurate but incomplete picture of reality from our recent past. The point is not even in the wrong or incomplete interpretation of the “historical context”, but in the policy of the SNP and similar parties, which do not give up on the narrative and “argumentation” from the 90s. In this way, defending almost four decades of Milošević, SANU and the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose policies have caused the most harm to the Serbian people in the long term. By continuing to keep the people in whose name they act on the sidelines of history, in a dilemma about which civilizational circle they belong to, in which direction they should go, where their borders are, or what their homeland and capital are.
So, if one really wants to see the true historical context, MP Kaluđerović, her colleagues and the party must first point to the indisputable facts, namely the policy that led to the tractors and ethnic cleansing, and not only to the one that carried out the aforementioned action. Therefore, when the SNP takes tractors as a symbol of persecution, it is only a partial picture, spin, half-truth, it is dealing with the consequences, without considering the causes. And the cause was the violent dissolution of the SFRY, which was initiated and led by the then political and intellectual leadership of the Serbian people, personified by S. Milošević, the political father of the then unified DPS and, unfortunately, today's SNP. Namely, they declared Yugoslavia a prison for the Serbian people, although in essence it was the largest and most beautiful Greater Serbia ever created. And that insane and anti-Serbian policy set out to destroy the "dungeon" so that "all Serbs could live in the same state", which led the Serbs into a tragedy, the consequences of which still persist today. The SNP continues to inherit such a bizarre policy, through stereotypes, spin, half-truths, untruths, which then stigmatizes the Serbs themselves the most, exposing them to outbursts of hatred and intolerance, as in this post by a certain Dragan Maslovar.
That is why when some MP Kaluđerović on behalf of the SNP, or some SNP on behalf of Slađana K., mentions tractors and the historical context, then they have to point out the policy of ethnic cleansing in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Kosovo, which was carried out by the Milošević regime with comrades from Montenegro. Anyone with an IQ above 80 experiences it as an insult or a farce when the MPs and leaders of the SNP serve a one-sided and farcical interpretation of the historical context, where they talk about the horror of ethnic cleansing in "Storm", and do not mention or try to minimize and belittle in every way the gravity of the genocide in Srebrenica, the concentration camps in Omarska, Prijedor, "humane resettlements" in Slavonia or Kosovo. By splitting the DPS in 1997, Đukanović and Marović distanced themselves from everything they had so wholeheartedly defended until then, while Momir and Peđa seemingly cemented the SNP forever in an impossible mission - to defend the indefensible. And that the Serbs in whose name they act have been kept under the delusion for decades that their suffering, one of the greatest in all of history, is the fault of someone else, some Ustashas, Šiptars, Balijas, Dukljans - and not the policies they represented and which they obviously still adhere to today.
Or, to clarify further for the sake of MP Kaluđerović and her party - the alleged Dragan Maslovar is a fascist, because he calls for the persecution of an individual or an entire national group because of a different political stance or demand. But fascism was also a "log revolution" that pushed Serbs into the streets and into violence instead of the institutions of the mother country of Croatia, working groups and discussions within the Parliament. Where Milošević sent tanks and howitzers after the log. At the end of such a wrongly chosen path, in the finale of the tragic aggression and war on Croatian soil, there were tractors and ethnic cleansing. Even that act is considered by some analysts to be part of the agreement between Milošević and Tuđman, especially when it is known how the unfortunate, refugee people were welcomed by the then authorities in Belgrade. Or if we take into account the statement from two days ago by the current patron or partner of the SNP, Vučić, who, from the position of head of state, while visiting a Krajina stand in Novi Sad, said that the Serbs from Croatia made a smart choice when they came to their own Serbia from the Ustasha Krajina in the mid-90s. You wouldn't believe it!
This is a true and honest view of the "historical context" that the SNP refers to. Which then leads to the key question that plagues this party to this day - would the Serbs in Croatia ever have ended up in an exodus and on tractors, would there still be 200 or 300 thousand Serbs living in Croatia today, and not ten times less, if the policies of the then DPS and today's SNP had not imposed a war on them against their own homeland!? The answer is not difficult to guess, even for the SNP, only if one has the strength to face the complete picture from the aforementioned historical context.
Fortunately for MP Kaluđerović and the SNP, for all of us, at least for the foreseeable future, tanks, conquest of other people's territories and tractors are over. But if the war is over on the ground, it is clearly not in the minds of a significant number of people. Which is confirmed by a certain Dragan Maslovar, as well as MP Kaluđerović's appearance in Reflektor, or the later statement by the SNP. Because as long as certain political parties push their demands in an aggressive manner, with numerous spins, untruths, half-truths, conspiracy theories, they will also incite inter-ethnic or regional hatred and divisions. Which then always keeps open the possibility that one "fine day", words will again move from deeds. Or from the working group in the Parliament to logs and revolutions. Especially since the water carrier of the former and the patron of today's Serbian world, AV, every now and then threatens that Serbia has never been better armed and has never had more food and men for a new campaign. Of course, "defensive", like the one in the 90s. Because we all know since then, especially the SNP, that Serbia and Montenegro have never been at war.
This means that MP Kaluđerović and her party should raise current topics, such as the official status of the Serbian language in Montenegro, to a higher level. Metaphorically, instead of a log, they should use a more serious argument than the one of the type, "that's what the census showed", or "English is official in America". The first "argument" is again cheaply manipulated with spin and untruth, because the hoax is being spread frantically that 44 percent of citizens in the census voted almost exclusively on constitutional changes and not on the name of the language they speak. Slađa, Joko, Pipun, Danilović and other dajkovićs must first distinguish between a census and a referendum. Therefore, a census is a statistical act, and a referendum is a political act, so the respondents in the census voted on the name of the language they use, and not on constitutional changes and the introduction of Serbian as official! No one, not even the SNP, can claim how a referendum on this topic would have passed and whether all 44 percent of citizens who called the language Serbian in the census would have voted to standardize it as an official language. Especially since not a small number of those citizens understand that it is linguistically the same language, and that its name is exclusively a political issue. Even if, unlike the 2023 census, in that referendum campaign there were someone to argue the thesis of the Montenegrin language as a sufficient constitutional formulation. Which was not the case in the 2023 census campaign. We only had a big campaign by the so-called Serbian parties, the church and official Belgrade about the need to call this, the one and only language that we all use, Serbian. I repeat, for political or imperial, not linguistic reasons.
It is similar with the “argument” of MP Kaluđerović and the entire SNP that in the USA English is the official language, so that does not bother any American, while in Montenegro their request regarding Serbian is perceived as heresy and hostility!? Again, spin and manipulation. Because there are few Americans, perhaps none, who will declare themselves as English nationally, because that issue was resolved long ago, so the name of the language comes down to a linguistic issue. While in our case the matter is the other way around - linguistically we all know that it is the same language, but some, like the SNP, are trying for political or imperial reasons to insert it into the constitution and declare it official. From what would they then derive a new “argument” - if the language is Serbian, then the country is Serbian. Something like RS 2.0, only without Dodik. That would be a satisfaction for the SNP, also from the perspective of the policy they have been advocating and defending since the 90s. Three Serbian republics would, in fact, show that Milošević was not a war criminal and the greatest anti-Serb of the 20th century, but a visionary and serious statesman. A patriot above all. Like all his political children, from Kaluđerović and Joković, to Mandić and Knežević.
Sometimes the SNP or similar parties mention Switzerland or Austria instead of the USA. Because, we all know, that in Zurich all the Swiss speak German, but what the SNP and similar parties then skip and gloss over is the fact that if you tell any of them that they are German and not Swiss, they will ignore you as unaccountable or will report you to the competent authorities for hate speech and discrimination. The same is true in Austria. Only the SNP and the ZBCG have "double standards" - the Americans, Swiss or Austrians are their brothers and a great example when they justify the need for our language to be called Serbian, but they are irrelevant or strange to them when their national declaration is pointed out, which does not coincide with the linguistic one.
When everything is summed up, it is not difficult, even for the leaders of the SNP, to draw a conclusion - behind their demands and future working groups that will consider the issues of language, flag, citizenship, there is not linguistics or heraldry, but pure politics. And imperial politics! Which has been allegedly conducted for almost four decades in the name of saving and protecting the naked and endangered Serbian people, and we have seen from the results that it is in fact the policy that has contributed the most to many Serbs remaining both naked and barefoot. On thorns or in the thornbush. If, as the SNP would say, one looks at the historical context.
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