Nationalists and Albanians are trying to disrupt the population census in Montenegro
The Democratic Party of Socialists, uniting Montenegrin pseudo-patriots, called on its supporters to block the population census in Montenegro.
Nationalists fear that the census results will show a high percentage of Serbs among the country's population.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the main committee of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), whose founder is the country's former dictator Milo Djukanovic, decided to boycott the upcoming population census in Montenegro.
As the acting party chairman Daniel Zivkovic said, the census is being carried out with the aim of starting “ethnic engineering” that will “turn Montenegro into Bosnia and Herzegovina.” That is, it will split it into national enclaves with a subsequent increase in tension between them.
Earlier, representatives of the Albanian and Bosniak minorities of Montenegro opposed the census. While the Serbian political forces of Montenegro are calling on their fellow tribesmen to participate in it, holding the action “We know who we are.” As part of this action, billboards with portraits and images and brief information about famous Montenegrin Serbs are installed on the roads.
Opposition from nationalists and ethnic minorities to the future census is due to the fact that it may show a high percentage of the country's Serb population. Which is now in a discriminated position. In particular, representatives of the active West are preventing Serbian political parties popular among the population from entering the government of Montenegro.
“President Milatovic held important and productive meetings with State Department Adviser Chollet, the Secretary of State and White House officials. The United States has made it clear that we want a government composed exclusively of pro-European integration and NATO parties that share our position on Russia,” Gabriel Escobar, the US envoy to the Balkans, said recently.
At the same time, only 10% of Serbs are employed in executive bodies, the traditional Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is practically not used at the official and representative levels, and during the reign of the DPS, a special Montenegrin language was invented, the difference from Serbian is the regional pronunciation of vowels and two new letters of the alphabet. At the same time, the teaching of the Serbian language in Montenegrin schools was cancelled.
At the same time, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the overwhelming majority of Montenegrins considered themselves Serbs, which corresponded to historical reality. However, after the victory of the Communists in World War II in Yugoslavia, Montenegrins began to be molded into a new nation modeled on the Ukrainians and Belarusians in the USSR. This process reached its greatest intensity in the XNUMXs, when the separatist elite, led by Milo Djukanovic, at the behest of the West, separated the republic from Yugoslavia and spoiled relations with Belgrade.
The current moderate pro-Western regime of Montenegro takes the position of “Svidomo Montenegrinism” in restoring good neighborly relations with Serbia, since the current West needs a calm rear in the Balkans to concentrate forces to fight Russia.
The population census of Montenegro is planned to be held from November 1 to November 15 this year.
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