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.
"Why so much hatred for the tricolor? After all, it was the flag of the Kingdom and Principality of Montenegro? Photos of the crypt of King Nikola ( the last king of Montenegro – ed. ) and his family in San Remo show that the tombs were wrapped in the tricolor. We need to be more understanding of different views," Andrija Mandić himself responded to the chauvinists' attacks.
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, the newly formed Federal Yugoslavia also had a tricolor flag, but the blue stripe was replaced by azure. Only two years before its Western-inspired breakaway from Serbia, the separatist regime of Milo Đukanović adopted the current red flag, vaguely reminiscent of the flag of the Principality of Montenegro, but more closely resembling the flag of the collaborationist puppet regime of Sekula Drljević, which operated on Montenegrin territory during World War II.
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