Vesna Šofranac
Changing names of some streets in Belgrade has caused bitter controversy in Serbia. However, not even that act of Serbian government could go without involving Montenegro and its president, Mr Milo Đukanović, juts to send him a message that a chetnik can be found and tasked with assassinating him, just like Blagoje Jovović did in the middle of the last century, firing shots at Anto Pavelić.
SCANDALOUS MESSAGES
Scandalous threatening message sent to Montenegro’s president came from Happy TV, in the Morning Program of Mr Milomir Marić, on 28 July this year and by Serbian publicist and political analyst, Mr Dragomir Anđelković, who said the following:
“It’s very good that Belgrade gets the street named after man who performed that heroic act in Argentina…That act should be indeed regarded as heroic, especially because it was a man from Montenegro, a Serb from Montenegro, from a distinguished Serbian family. In present circumstances, that has political importance. Serbian people in MNE are fighting to survive identity genocide, they are struggling with the kidnapping of church property and it can be stated without exaggeration that Milo Đukanović is post-modern Pavelić. He is not destroying Serbs physically but he’s trying to assimilate them”.
Bringing Montenegro’s president and the head of Ustashe in the Independent State of Croatia at the same level, Mr Anđelković is clearly setting up target to Mr Đukanović, looking for some new Blagoje to finish what Serbian and Russian forces failed to do in 2016.
It’s interesting to notice that Mr Anđelković was very active in lead-up to the last parliamentary elections in Montenegro and that he launched thesis that Montenegro “is like ISC”. Three days before elections in October 2016, he made an appeal to Serbian people to help oust the power in Montenegro.
“We must support fight of Serbian people for survival. Elections are coming and it’s high time. Indomitably, energetically, loudly”, Mr Anđelković wrote in a column published by In4S on 13 October 2016.
Serbian Patriarch Irinej came forward with same thesis. In 2018, he said that position of Serbian church in MNE was worse than in time of the Ottoman occupation and that status of Serbs” is like in times of the fascist creation of Independent State of Croatia”.
THE SAME STORY AS IN 2016
Today, four years after the failed terrorist attack attempt in Montenegro, on television with national coverage Mr Anđelković explains why it is important that Belgrade gets the street that will be named after Blagoje Jovović, while clearly saying that it’s a good political act and support for Serbian people in MNE. The same story as before parliamentary elections in 2016. This Serbian analyst, columnist of the Belgrade Pečat, whose views are expressed in almost every Serbian medium, has declared almost openly that Montenegrin president has deserved to be eliminated.
Meanwhile, shirts with the face of Blagoje Jovović on them are being printed in Serbia and according to the mayor of Belgrade, Mr Goran Vesić, these shorts have become the best-selling dress in Belgrade. No good can come of this degree of national hysteria.
Similar assessment was made by Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Ms Dubravka Stoajnović, who reacted to Mr Vesić’s statement that a street in Zemun will have name of the man who shot Pavelić.
“Unfortunately, Pavelić has never been brought before court for his crimes. But to celebrating his murderer in the streets of the capital is a message that in cases when justice couldn’t be reached, we have right to do it. That’s celebration of revenge, non-civilization abyss “, Ms Stojanović said.
View on this hysteria produced by various Anđelković and Serbia media was expressed by citizens commenting on the show of Mr Marić. One of the comment was: “The Great Serbian psycho therapy in the psychiatric clinic “Serbia”. Is there anything to add to this?
