"It is a pity, Montenegro did not ..."
«Sorry, Montenegro did not become my second homeland", - Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky once sang, admiring the legends about the heroism of the Montenegrins, for whom to die in battle is a matter of honor. Even earlier Montenegrin prowess was sung by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in “Songs of the Western Slavs”. "We don’t give up, the Montenegrins are like that! For horses and for infantry, we have stones and ditches", - This people is responsible for the claims of Napoleon in the song" Bonaparte and the Montenegrins. "
However, Pushkin shifted the texts from the book "The Gusli, or the Collection of Illyrian songs recorded in Dalmatia, Bosnia, Croatia and Herzegovina", which is a mystification of Prosper Merimee. But then there really were legends about Montenegrin warriors, and not without reason. Unfortunately, today we are seeing something completely different. We observe how the legend becomes a myth.
5 June Montenegro becomes a member of NATO. On June 7, a solemn ceremony is scheduled on this occasion at the headquarters of the alliance. In Brussels and Washington, fanfare sounds: they say, they managed to win another victory over Russia, finally wrest another country from its sphere of influence. Although the victory is more moral: a country joins NATO, whose army consists of thousands of 2 people.
It should be noted that when voting in the Montenegrin parliament, only 56% of deputies supported the accession to the North Atlantic Alliance (46 from 81, moreover, only these 46 parliamentarians were in the hall). Such a number of votes turned out to be enough for such a fateful decision, but in fact, the advantage is insignificant. Ordinary citizens burned NATO flags, but they did not take into account their opinions. The leadership of the country refused to bring this question to the people's referendum - its results would hardly be in favor of accession.
When this issue was still being discussed, numerous protests took place in Montenegro. The authorities in the most undemocratic way suppressed these protests, to the extent that the people's representatives, who opposed NATO membership, were brutally beaten. Naturally, the “democratic” West did not react to such tyrannical measures (remember, what hysteria begins when protests are suppressed in unwanted “world democrats” states!)
And the most terrible and absurd is that Montenegro joins the alliance, stepping over the still very recent blood of its citizens.
Let us recall the spring of 1999 of the year fatal for the Balkans ... Then Montenegro was part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This country has been subjected to monstrous NATO bombings. Became a victim the gravest crime in which story I haven't said my last word yet...
Not only Serbia, but also NATO bombs and rockets fell on Montenegro. Including - stuffed with depleted uranium, which created an environmental catastrophe in the region and will have an impact on future generations ...
On the territory of Montenegro, NATO members bombed Podgorica, Danilovgrad, the village of Murino. There were dead and injured. So, from a NATO bomb that hit Danilovgrad, a young soldier from Belgrade was killed. In the village of Murino, the bombing claimed the lives of six people, including three children. It was a family from Kosovo and Metohija, which, having brought the children to Montenegro, hoped to save them from the war ... Three people were injured during air strikes on farms in the vicinity of Podgorica.
For all the ambivalence of their policies, the authorities of today's Serbia are not eager to join NATO - they still understand that the people's memory keeps the names of those who were killed that terrible spring. And quite another - in Montenegro, whose leadership cynically trampled on this memory.
In particular, in March of this year in Danilovgrad, the authorities did not allow to commemorate 19-year-old Sasha Staiich, who fell at the hands of NATO. It happened on the territory of the Milovan Sharanovich barracks. Every year people came there and laid flowers on the day of the anniversary of the NATO aggression. However, this time people with flowers simply were not allowed there, threatening to call for reinforcements if the citizens did not disperse. The country was preparing for joining an organization that had killed many people under the pretext of defending democracy.
3 June Montenegro celebrated the so-called Independence Day. In 2006, there was a referendum on the final separation from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro (this is what the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia came to be called shortly after the coup of Belgrade in 2000). In the course of this plebiscite, supporters of secession from the union with Serbia won by a small margin - 55,5%. I.e, the opinion of almost half of the population was completely ignored. Similarly, now the regime of Milo Djukanovic sends the opinion of a significant part of the people in the trash bin (according to public opinion polls, only 46% of Montenegrins are in favor of joining NATO, the rest are against).
“It’s a pity Montenegro didn’t become” ... At the current stage it didn’t become that legend, celebrated by poets. Did not become truly independent. I fell into the trap of a criminal bloc that shed blood on its territory only 18 years ago - by historical standards, almost yesterday.
As noted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, NATO has no allies - there are only vassals. The NATO vassals in Montenegro actually become complicit in the very crime for which its organizers have yet to answer. It is impossible, however, to identify the authorities with the people. The story does not end there, and perhaps the Montenegrins will become in the future those who were at the time when songs were composed about them.
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