Pavle Đurišić is just one in a series of controversial historical figures whose characteristics are shared by Montenegrin society. Politicians, according to the interviewees of Television Vijesti, put them in the spotlight whenever they need to, or when they are incapable of solving fundamentally important problems for citizens.
Just like twenty years ago, today - Chetnik commander Pavle Đurišić divides the Montenegrin public.
Although the new government promised to put an end to divisions of this kind, those familiar with the situation in Montenegro note that this has not happened - for several reasons.
"A month ago, the Prosecutor's Office found nothing objectionable in Metropolitan Joanikije's statement about the affirmation of Pavle Đurišić, so it is not courage but a simple sequence of events. What is the problem? What is this continuation of the policy that we have seen for all the past decades, and the new rulers spat on that policy and just took it over," said Predrag Nikolić, a journalist for Monitor.
"Some parties, both in power and in the opposition, do not have an adequate response to the economic moves of PES and Milojko Spajić, who, whatever you think of his economic policy, has nevertheless increased salaries and pensions. They are resorting to nationalism and some real or fictional national heroes," points out the assistant editor-in-chief of Vijesti, Vukašin Obradović.
And Pavle Đurišić is not the only one whom history has put an end to, but neither is Montenegrin society, in which both sides resort to historical revisionism when necessary.
For over 12 years, an illegally erected monument dedicated to Jusuf Čelić, a collaborator of the fascist occupiers in World War II, has stood in Gusinje – so long that the criminal charges against the financier of the construction of this monument, Arif Čeljaj, were dismissed due to the statute of limitations.
And another war criminal, Osman Rastoder, came into the public spotlight again three years ago when a film was released at the Bosniak Cultural Center in Petnjica, celebrating Rastoder as a hero and savior of the Bosniak people in Bihor.
Krsto Zrnov Popović - another name from Montenegrin history that some desecrate
And others have been asking for years for a monument to be erected in Cetinje.
And so, concludes Vukašin Obradović, it will be until politicians are able to provide answers to questions that are truly important.
"People are offered nationalism as salvation, belonging to a nation, and we are offered a common enemy, and that is what citizens must recognize in this madness that engulfs us every day, regardless of whether it is Đurišić, Rastoder or Krsto Zrnov," says Obradović.
The monument to Duke Mirko Petrović, erected eight years ago, is still being sought by some today from Independence Square in Podgorica. Kuči and the Serbian National Council of Montenegro are persistently demanding this from the city authorities, as they blame it for the Kuči massacre.
The recent storm in Podgorica was caused by the ruling Democrats, who are insisting that a street in the capital be named after Pavle Bulatović, a former minister, whom opponents accuse of being responsible for the deportation of Bosnian-Herzegovinian refugees from Montenegro in 1992.
The fact that the divisions from the 1990s are still alive is also evidenced by the illegally erected memorial plaque in Morinje, which was ordered to be removed by the inspection. But it still stands there.
Just as, it often seems, Montenegrin society has been stuck in the jaws of division for decades.
"Every time the citizens of Montenegro mention nation, nationalism, religion, church or God, they should first reach for their pockets and then think about what they will do next and how," said Obradović.
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