DNP: Victory Day over Fascism is a bright date for freedom-loving Montenegro

Victory Day over the Axis Powers also represents a bright date for freedom-loving Montenegro, the Democratic People's Party (DNP) announced on the occasion of May 9, Victory Day over Fascism.

As they stated, on this occasion, today in Podgorica, the president and vice president of the party, Milan Knežević and Milun Zogović, laid wreaths at the Monument to the Partisan Fighter in Gorica, thus marking "the greatest date of humanity's victory in the twentieth century - over Nazi Germany and the forces of evil in World War II, which claimed millions of human lives."

As they add, wreaths were also laid by the Russian Ambassador to Montenegro, Alexander Petrovich Lukashik, the donor for the creation of the monument and the founder of the Sergei Yesenin Museum and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Vladimir Bubnov, the director of the Sergei Yesenin Museum in Voronezh, Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya, the president of the Union of Builders of the city of Voronezh, Inna Chekmareva, and the president of the Council of the Russian-Balkan Center for People's Diplomacy, Ljubomir Radinović.

"This Victory Day on May 9, 1945, was ratified on behalf of the Allied forces by Soviet Marshal (Georgij) Zhukov, and is still celebrated in many countries today as a day of triumph of peaceful and progressive humanity. But also as a day of warning that the dark forces of fascism, and those similar to them, which aim to subjugate free peoples, must never and will never happen again. May 9 is celebrated with solemn military parades in many countries of the world, especially in the Russian Federation, in Moscow, and the former countries of the USSR, which suffered the greatest human and material losses in World War II," they said.

The DNP points out that "Victory Day over the Axis Powers also represents a bright date for freedom-loving Montenegro, which, after the July 7th uprising in Serbia, was among the first in the Balkans to light the torch of freedom on July 13, 1941, thus showing that Njegošev's Montenegro never kisses anyone's chains."

"On this occasion, it should be emphasized that our country, first under the occupation of fascist Italy and then Nazi Germany, was liberated at the end of 1944, even half a year before the final collapse of fascism in the world, which is a historical fact with the highest degree of respect! During the National Liberation War, Montenegro, in addition to great material destruction, also suffered enormous human, civilian and military casualties, as many as twenty thousand victims. Today, our country, on its way to Europe, certainly represents one of the respected states of high culture and a spirit of freedom, which has kept Montenegro on the path of freedom, peace and global tolerance through the centuries," the statement concludes.