The Democratic People's Party (DNP) proposed that the airport in Podgorica be named Aerodrom Njegoš Podgorica.
The head of the DNP media center, Dragan Koprivica, said that those who can process this proposal in Montenegro are now on the move.
"And you know what a public campaign and citizens' statements would bring: huge support for Podgorica's airport to bear Njegoš's name. And in that way, it will be mentioned every day, and his image will become closer to millions of travelers coming to and from Montenegro. her, knowing that this country also respected its great man in this way. After all, there is even a poetic reason in one of Njegoš's works. "Luča mikrokosma" also contains verses, in which the great poet sings precisely about the heavenly heights and the flights of spirituality, even in an incredibly fitting way: "Is it difficult to take flight / I spread my wings on a boat / Without a rudder and without a leader / Into the endless ocean of air... /", stated Koprivica.
He stated that the declaration of Njegoš's birthday as a national holiday seems "a bit stereotypical".
"Njegoš's birthday is a sacred date of Montenegrin culture, but the authorities should not use it for the purpose of self-promotion and dressing up our not at all comfortable reality. On the day of Njegoš's birth, by the way, the highest state award in the field of South Slavic literature, the Njegoš Award, is already awarded. With in which there was a lot going on in the light of politicization and counter-effects regarding the importance of our highest recognition from the sphere of literature. And that in a situation when Njegošev's Serbianness, the Serbian language and the Cyrillic alphabet are also being persecuted in Montenegro. And when even half of the seats in the state parliament are empty, and Montenegro is the only enslaved country in Europe, whose parliament does not have a complete opposition," said Koprivica.
He believes that by adding the name to the airport in Podgorica, Njegoš would be "much more present in our everyday life".
"The uninventive cultural strategists in the government did not even pay attention, and perhaps they are not interested, that in the world, in countries incomparably larger than ours, airports that are twenty or more times larger than ours are named after the greatest figures in the country's history . If the explanation from the Government already states that we should act "in accordance with the experiences of other countries", does no one remember that the airport in Paris is named after Charles de Gaulle. And in Houston, in the American state of Texas, the name of one of the presidents of the country, George Bush? And that the airport in Washington is named after Ronald Reagan. And in New York, after John Kennedy. And in Houston, the International Airport is named after the American father of the nation, George Washington! If even this is not enough to convince some uninventive people, let's also remember that Serbia named its airport Nikola Tesla Airport," said Koprivica.
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