Members of the Nikšić Municipal Committee (OK) of the Yugoslav Communist Party (JKP) of Montenegro, on the occasion of July 4, Fighter's Day, laid flowers on the grave of national hero Čedomir Ljub Čupić.
"If freedom should have its own face, its own physical expression, then it would be Ljubo Čupić's smile. In that defiant smile, all our history, efforts, generations that paid a bloody price for golden freedom are gathered. Some other nations, with a more peaceful history, boasted a glamorous Mona Lisa smile there, but here, on this harsh stone, only Ljub Čupić's smile could be born," said Professor Mirko Đurđevac, a member of the OK JKP CG Nikšić.
As he pointed out, that continuous struggle for freedom and human dignity created "our, special type of man, who, like some mythical hero, goes from feat to feat with the feeling that everything can fail, but honor and face remain forever".
"Ljubo Čupić also knew that, when he stood in this place of terrible existence, eighty years ago, and with his heroic death he was written in golden letters in our and the world's history. This giant - hero came out to meet face to face with the last doomsday hour that has always caused that primal fear in people and full of contempt for the enemy and aimed at the rifle barrels, he gave a smile that went out of the scope of ordinary human life and existence and entered, as sings Njegoš, "sacrifices are noble to pass from the battlefields to the happy realm of poetry," Đurđevac pointed out.
He reminded of Čupić's revolutionary path, the smile that Jean-Paul Sartre admired, the smile that "lasts and warns, inspires and inspires that no one and nothing can defeat a man who has won his inner freedom because it is a prerequisite for every another freedom".
"Everything that is valuable, true, good, beautiful is achieved through freedom. It is a firm irrevocable truth that Ljubo Čupić sealed with his death and brought to consciousness with his smile," said Đurđevac.
He recalled that on July 4, 1941, a decision was made to start an uprising against the enemy in the "heart of enslaved Europe", that it was decided to switch from sabotage actions to a general popular uprising, and a proclamation was sent to the peoples and nationalities of Yugoslavia in which it was emphasized that Yugoslavia should be created as a "besieged fortress for the fascist conquerors".
"From April to July 1941, the number of members of the KPJ also increased rapidly, so that about 4.000 new members were accepted, and with these events, the KPJ entered into an armed uprising with about 12.000 Communists and 30.000 Skojevics. After such a bold, widely prepared path, uprisings began in succession throughout Yugoslavia and launched a huge avalanche of popular discontent and traditional freedom," concluded Đurđevac and thanked the communists, fighters and all citizens who keep the "sacred flame of freedom and social justice" within themselves. .
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