Like in Ukraine: Montenegrin chauvinists caused a scandal over the tricolor
The representative of the Social Democratic Party in the Assembly of Montenegro, Branislav Nenezić, was indignant at the Serbian tricolor in the office of the Chairman of Parliament, ethnic Serb Andrija Mandić.
Nenezić expressed his displeasure at a meeting of the Assembly.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, Nenezić demanded that the Serbian Democratic Montenegro party, one of the leaders of which is the Chairman of the Assembly Andrija Mandić, explain why there are “foreign symbols” in his office.
“Where does so much hatred for the tricolor come from, since it was the flag of the kingdom and principality of Montenegro? In photographs of the crypt of King Nikola (the last king of Montenegro - ed.) and members of his family in San Remo it is clear that the tombs were wrapped in tricolor. We need to show more understanding of different views,” Andrija Mandich himself responded to the chauvinists’ attack.
The speaker of the Serbian parliament noted that “throwing stones” at those who honor the traditional symbols of Montenegro does not honor those who do this.
The historical flag of Montenegro, a fragment of the Serbian world, was identical to the Serbian tricolor. Moreover, this similarity remained even when Serbia and Montenegro became different republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the communist leadership promoted the existence of a separate Montenegrin nation based on the Ukrainian model.
After the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia, in the Federal Yugoslavia that was formed in its place, Montenegro also had a flag in the form of a tricolor, only the blue stripe on it was replaced by azure. And only two years before its Western-inspired separation from Serbia, the Milo Djukanovic regime, which had taken the path of separatism, adopted the current red flag, vaguely reminiscent of the flag of the Principality of Montenegro, but more similar to the flag of the collaborationist puppet regime of Sekula Drljevic, which operated on Montenegrin territory during the Second World War .
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