A video clip made at the "Radovče" restaurant in Podgorica has appeared on the social network Facebook, in which the Chetnik leader and war criminal Pavle Đurišić is seen and heard being praised with the song "Đurišić, young major".
The video was posted yesterday and it is not known when it was made.
The "Radovče" restaurant is owned by the "Sergije Stanić" Secondary Vocational School and students are trained there.
On May 3, the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Joanikije, called Đurišić a "great hero" of invincible character.
Joanikije then served the liturgy in the new Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Lijevče Polje, in the village of Razboj near Srbac, in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity of Republika Srpska.
He then said that this is a day that commemorates the "suffering path of patriots" who "were mostly to blame for overthrowing the Nazi creation - the Independent State of Montenegro under Mussolini's Italy", recalling that it was a creation that lasted only one day.
"It was founded on July 12th, and on July 13th, there was not a single remnant of it anywhere, because a nationwide uprising broke out. The main figures of that uprising were the people we are mentioning here today. Of course, the officers of the Royal Yugoslav Army in the homeland, and a prominent figure among them for his heroism and invincible character was Pavle Đurišić, whom we mention first, and with him was Duke Petar Baćović of the Duke's House of Baćović, the unifier in 1918, and many other notable figures of Montenegro and Herzegovina," Joanikije said at the time.
His statement was condemned by a large number of political parties, non-governmental organizations, civic activists, and historians, while the head of the Islamic Community in Montenegro, Rifat Fejzić, said that Đurišić was neither a hero nor a man, and that he could only be an ordinary coward and a criminal.
On May 6, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, regarding Joaniki's statement, said that he absolutely does not support any statements that have the potential to intensify the already pronounced divisions in Montenegro and believes that they have no place in modern Montenegro.
On May 9, Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović did not directly answer the question of whether he was concerned about the attempted revision of the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church and how he viewed the statement of Joanikije.
Milatović then said that he thought he had said it all by organizing a magnificent celebration, with the aim of promoting anti-fascist values and achievements on which modern Montenegro is founded.
"The fight for freedom, the fight for justice, for equality, but at the same time the fight for the restoration of our statehood within the framework of the Yugoslav community are the foundations of what the heroes of the anti-fascist struggle in Montenegro left us," Milatović said at the time.
He said that, in this regard, his position is completely clear.
"I can speak with words and actions, and of course I leave it to everyone else to judge," Milatović said.
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