On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia (communist), a ceremony was held in the hall of the municipality in Nikšić, preceded by the laying of flowers on the memorial plaque in "Njegoševa" street, where the first party organization in Nikšić was formed in April 1920, and as secretary Bajo Raičević, a law student, was elected.
The president of the Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro (JKP CG), Vladislav Vuković, recalled that from April 20 to 23, 1919, in the "Slavija" hotel in Belgrade, the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia was founded, which changed its name to the Communist Party of Yugoslavia the following year.
"The formation of this party was the result of enthusiasm for the liberation of the South Slavic peoples from centuries of slavery and foreign domination, but also a response to how the new community should be," said Vuković.
Dragoje Strunjaš, Vice President of the PUC of Montenegro, spoke about the participation of the Montenegrin delegation at the founding congress in 1919.
"Returning from the Congress, the Montenegrin delegation, encouraged by the recognition of the previous work, and especially the decisions of the Congress, continued their persistent work with numerous activists, which was felt by organizing May Day manifestations and creating new workers' organizations. In the parliamentary elections of 1920, it won the most votes in the electoral district of Montenegro," Strunjaš said.
The President of the Municipal Committee of the PUC CG Nikšić, Radislav Stanišić, titled his address "once and now".
"Yugoslavia was our real European Union with all its good and bad sides. It, like the European Union, was dreamed up by the best and destroyed by the worst," Stanišić said.
At the ceremony, plaques were awarded - to the oldest communist of Montenegro, a peer of the Party, centenarian Danilo Miljanić, and the youngest member of the Municipal Committee, seventeen-year-old Jovo Radović.
Communist sympathizer Veljko Zailac, "Dana" and "Vijesti" journalists Biljana Brašnja and Svetlana Mandić and "Dana" photojournalist Željko Šapurić received plaques.
At the central celebration in Montenegro, which was organized by Nikšić communists and led by Čedomir Grozdanić, communists from other cities of Montenegro, the third secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Montenegro, Sergej Federenko, as well as representatives of SOBNOR and opposition parties attended.
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