Nikšić communists condemned the announcement of the mayor of Belgrade Aleksandar Šapić, that he will submit an initiative to erect a monument to the commander of the Chetnik movement from World War II in the Terazijska terrace park To Dragoljub Draža Mihajlović, as well as that he will advocate for the relocation of the tomb of the lifelong president of the SFRY Josip Broz Tito from the Museum of Yugoslavia and Monuments The Prophet Muhammad, Ivi Loli Ribaru, Đur Đaković i Ivan Milutinović (Hero's Tomb) from the Kalemegdan Fortress.
"We communists, anti-fascists of Yugoslavia and the world, the Workers' and Peasants' International, cosmopolitans, ecologists and the entire progressive democratic public must not allow this," reads the statement signed by the president of the Municipal Committee of the PUC of Montenegro. Dragoje Strunjaš.
As he pointed out, Tito and Draža cannot be compared:
"He was the first at the head of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia to free the country from fascism, created brotherhood and unity, workers' self-management, the non-aligned movement, he was a famous fighter for peace who, precisely because of his courage in opposing fascism after the war, was respected by all world leaders, even those who were not socialism and the left had a good opinion. Already at the beginning of the occupation, the latter, because of his anti-socialism and anti-communism, not only betrayed the agreement with Tito on the joint fight against the Nazi and fascist occupiers, but also entered into military cooperation with him, attacking Tito's fighters.
Strunjaš assessed that erecting a monument to Mihajlovic means standing in solidarity with fascism today, when its forms have "regained momentum in Europe and the world, just as the one to whom the monument is to be erected stood in solidarity with fascism".
"That act, as well as the relocation of Tito's grave and the graves of national heroes from Kalemegdan, and anywhere from any place, would bring Serbia and any other country closer to countries where fascism is already re-establishing its roots, or sprouting because it was not eradicated. in World War II. When you attack the fighters against the occupier, the fighters against Nazi-fascism, then you are actually consciously or unconsciously defending both the occupier and Nazi-fascism".
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