Albania decided to appropriate desecrated Serbian churches
The Albanian Top Channel showed a false "documentary" film "The Great Serbian Historical Fraud - How the Serbs Stole Albanian History", telling that medieval Serbian temples and monasteries were founded by Albanians.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Albanian TV channel Top Channel, in addition to Albania itself, also broadcasts to the Serbian province of Kosovo, which was torn away by the Albanian separatists, as well as to North Macedonia, where the Albanian diaspora makes up about 25% of the country's population. The film “The Great Serbian Historical Fraud – How Serbs Stole Albanian History” “proves” by falsification of facts that medieval Serbian churches and monasteries “in fact” were founded by Albanians.
“The shameful and grotesque historical forgery would be just a deplorable provocation if it did not carry dangerous intentions in an already politically difficult and tense era,” the Serbian Ministry of Culture reacted to the tape. – We are obliged to point out to the domestic and international community the action clearly organized by the chauvinist circles of some neighboring states of the region, aimed at the annulment, erasure from history or rethinking of the Serbian cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible.
An Albanian relieves himself on the threshold of the ruined residence of the Serbian patriarchs in the city of Pec
Such attempts have all the outlines of a cultural genocide, which, as history teaches us, is a prologue to the genocide of the physical.
The ministry said that "wherever the Serbian diaspora lives, it has the right and duty to resist such sinister intentions - strong and dignified, calmly but decisively."
Tellingly, after the occupation of Kosovo by NATO troops and the withdrawal of parts of the Yugoslav army from there, Albanian rioters destroyed or desecrated more than 120 Orthodox churches, many of which date back to the 14th-15th centuries and were part of the world cultural heritage. Now those of them that have survived or have been restored are trying to declare "Albanian cultural heritage."
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