WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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On Ravni Laz in Piperi, 82 years have been marked since July 8, 1941, when the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for Montenegro, Boka and Sandžak made a historic decision to raise an uprising against the occupiers in Montenegro.
Miloica Dakić, a member of the presidency of that organization, greeted the citizens on behalf of SUBNOR Montenegro.
The 13th of July Uprising was the first organized armed popular uprising in enslaved Europe. The news about the uprising was reported by all news outlets of the time - Radio Moscow, London Times, New York Times... Jean-Paul Sartre, a French writer and philosopher, declared that the Thirteenth of July Uprising was "the greatest value of the modern civilization of Europe in the 20th century". All citizens of Montenegro participated in NOB, regardless of their national and religious affiliation. The struggle showed that the Montenegrin people, fighting for freedom, were also fighting for national and class liberation - reminded Dakić.
Recalling the enormous human and material sacrifices that Montenegro suffered during the Second World War, Dakić emphasized that today's Montenegro must treat the fallen fighters and the innocent population with reverence.
They laid down their lives for the freedom of the country and its better future. With the NOB and the decisions of the Second AVNOJ session in 1943, Montenegro entered the community of equal Yugoslav republics on an equal footing in everything. Without July 13, 1941, there would not have been May 21, 2006, when Montenegro restored its independence and became a full member of the UN, and later of NATO - said Dakić.
He pointed out that fascism was defeated in 1945, but it turned out that it was not destroyed.
We are witnessing that the vampirized ideas of fascism, theocracy, clerofascism and cleronationalism are present all around us. The horrors of the Second World War and the events in the Yugoslav territories in the 90s of the last century are obviously not enough of a warning for some people on how to behave and live in these areas. As if the blood and victims were not enough. There are obvious attempts to rewrite history, ignoring events and personalities from the NOB, and the tendency to portray collaborators of the occupiers as anti-fascists. We cannot remain silent on the crazy intentions that threaten to destroy peace and all those values for which sacrifices were made, and for which the generations before us, through hard work and commitment, over a long period of time, traced the path of freedom, justice and progress - he said Dakić.
The member of the presidency of SUBNOR of Montenegro invited the citizens to come to Cetinje on July 13, where at 20:00 on the Summer Stage a ceremony dedicated to the most significant date in Montenegrin history will be held.
The ceremony in Piperi was also attended by a delegation from the Capital City headed by Mayor Olivera Injac and President of the Assembly Jelena Borovinić Bojović, who laid a wreath at the memorial on Ravni Laz. The delegation of SOBNOR of Montenegro also laid a wreath on the monument at Ravni Laz.
M.J.
