Baburin: In 1999, the FRY received what was intended for Russia

The XNUMXth anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was marked in Tivat with a liturgy in the monastery of Saint Michael the Archangel on Prevlaka, and a commemoration and laying of wreaths on the graves of the fallen Tivat people - members of the Vosja Yugoslavia Marko Avramović and Serbian MUP Dragan Bjelanović at the nearby Brdišta cemetery.

Symbolically, 20 white doves were released into the sky, and 20 white roses were dropped into the sea near Prevlaka.

The well-attended gathering organized by the NGO Miholjski Zbor, the Brotherhood of Orthodox Youth of Montenegro, the Immortal Regiment of Montenegro and the Veterans of the 63rd Parachute Brigade VJ, among others, was attended by the mayor of Budva Marko Bato Carević, the vice-president of the Municipality of Herceg Novi Miloš Konjević, the president of the SO Kotor Dragica Perović, consul of the Republic of Serbia, Zoran Dojčinović, representative of the Russian Embassy, ​​Sergej Fedorenko, representatives of the Balkan Cossack Army from Montenegro, Archbishop Momčilo Krivokapić of Boko Kotor and priests from Boka, as well as numerous war veterans.

In the presence of the families of Marko Avramović and Dragan Bjelanović, along with lined-up members of the Cossack army and war veterans, wreaths were laid on their graves by delegations from the Embassy of Russia and the Consulate General of Serbia, OBNOR and the Miholjski Choir.

A rich cultural and artistic program was also arranged, and a speech was read by Sergej Baburin, president of the International Slavic Council and deputy president of the State Duma of Russia, who said that "the twentieth anniversary of the unpunished, criminal aggression of the NATO alliance against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia must not be greeted with silence."

Baburim pointed out that on March 24, 1999, NATO, contrary to international law and the laws and customs of war, carried out an aggression against the FRY, whereby the first victim of the bombing by the most powerful military alliance died on the territory of Montenegro.

"We must not forget those who died during the aggression, especially the children who were killed. We must not forgive criminals, who do not even repent of their crimes. And they did not repent. Such "forgiveness" will only lead to the multiplication of evil. NATO, intended to protect Europe, has become a tool of evil. I wish the Montenegrin people peace and prosperity. I would never like to see how Montenegrin young men, in NATO uniforms, sow death and misfortune to other nations," said a high-ranking Russian state official in a letter, drawing a parallel between the attack of the Axis Powers in 1941 on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the NATO attack on the FRY in 1999. which, according to Baburin, was "the first blow aimed at Russia".

"78 years ago, the occupation of Yugoslavia postponed the attack on the USSR and hindered the plans of Hitler's strategists to conquer Moscow by autumn, and in 1999 we got time to consolidate and, under the leadership of President Putin, prevent the disintegration of our country, which NATO strategists were working on extensively," he pointed out. is Babur's

Tomislav Račić, a veteran of VJ I, one of the participants in the fiercest battles that took place on the ground, near the Košara watchtower on the Yugoslavian-Albanian border, also addressed the gathering. He said that in the spring of 1999, 1.002 members of the army, police and other security forces were killed in NATO airstrikes and simultaneous clashes with the KLA on land, and that among those who defended the country in the ranks of the VJ and often died in the process, any people of all nations.

"All of us from the former Yugoslavia were there - Montenegrins, Muslims, Serbs, Croats, Hungarians, Goranians, but there we were all brothers and we were all one - defenders of our country," underlined Račić, listing some of the names of his comrades in the ranks of all those nations.

The president of the peace movement "No to war - no to NATO" and editor of the IN4S portal Gojko Raičević said that "the largest military alliance that the world remembers succeeded in the years after the war, achieved what it could not do in 1999".

"Despite the fact, according to the Serbian Government's estimate, that at least 2.500 people died in the bombing, and more than 12.500 people were wounded and injured, and enormous resources were made, NATO did not conquer us in the war. He managed to do it in peace thanks to his trusted Montenegrin staff, whose name I will not say in front of you and this holy place. Unfortunately, it is true, we have always had spies, guides, traitors, traitors in our nation, but our history does not remember that the first man of the state drew targets on the heads of his own citizens in the headquarters of the enemy. Because of that and because of the fact that for the sake of his survival and for the protection of his dirty capital he brought us all into that criminal alliance, this last war has a particularly bitter taste," Raičević said.

The parish priest of Gornjogrbalj, Father Miajlo Backović, president of the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Youth of Montenegro and a veteran of the 63rd Parachute Brigade of the VJ, pointed out that there are two truths about the bombing of Serbia and Montenegro in 1999.

"Today we have two pictures in front of us, two plays about the truth, twenty years of questioning, denial. Two images - memory and forced oblivion. This other colorful, cinematic fairytale-Hollywood. And the first is full of pain-unresolved, death that continues", concluded Backović.