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Today, UBNOR and the anti-fascists of Nikšić marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in large numbers by gathering on Freedom Square near the monument to Ljubo Čupić.
Among the others, Alek Barović also spoke at the rally, saying that the Montenegrin people have always been on the side of those who are persecuted, oppressed and humiliated.
And today we are being persecuted by those who see a spiritual father in Nikolaj Velimirović, the creator of the holy book, who wrote eulogies to Adolf Hitler, saying that he "came up with the idea of Saint Sava". Followers of that same concept today deny Montenegrins the right to existence, nation, religion, language, culture and tradition - Barović pointed out.
He wonders what it is - but the worst form of fascism.
The worst crimes took place in the negation of the above, and it is obvious that those who have been defeated in war once again strive to repeat their misdeeds. They will not be allowed to do that and they are mistaken if they hope for that - said Barović.
He added that this day is commemorated in memory of over six million Jews who died under the Nazi dagger throughout Europe.
We worship the shadows of those who died in Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Jasenovac, Dachau, Mathauzen, Babin Jar and many other killing fields where human civilization was killed - said Barović.
He said that Montenegro and the Montenegrin people can boast that a large number of Jews have found refuge in Montenegro, and that Montenegro is perhaps the only country in Europe where the number of Jews today is much higher than it was in 1941. years.
And that serves to our honor - Barović pointed out.
In the years leading up to the war, he said that the world was silent on the strengthening of the evil that would commit these monstrous crimes.
An evil that will set the world on fire with the greatest destruction in human history. They promoted the trampling of the Versailles document and the enslavement of small nations, until the Nazi dragon's appetite grew, so it didn't turn to the bigger ones either. It seems to me that history is repeating itself. Today again the big ones don't care about the little ones. Today, when the freedom of a nation and state is threatened by its first neighbor. Today, when the worst execution sites of the Second World War are being repeated, Buča is the new Babin Jar, and Mauriopolj is the new Warsaw - pointed out Barović.
He said that all this is evidence that the Nazi-fascist ideology was not defeated on May 9, 1945.
It's not as it was thought, with Hitler the desire to exterminate other nations also went into the flames of gasoline. The genocidal ideology remained alive in the minds of those who are nourished by hatred towards everything that is not part of their people and customs. No one could believe that war would hit the old European continent again, let alone that the stench of the decaying corpses of innocently killed children, women, old men and men would ever again spread through the air. Unfortunately, Srebrenica arrived quickly as a product of reluctance to suppress an ideology that collaborated with the perpetrators of the Holocaust. The inheritors of their thought are guilty of the most terrible genocide in Europe after that January 27, 1945, here - said Barović.
He said that the Montenegrin people, who are also going through Golgotha today, were always with other freedom-loving peoples, and that clerofascism bound our homeland with the worst chains.
We must do our best to free ourselves from these shackles as soon as possible - said Barović.
He pointed out that the characteristic of Montenegrins is not that they endure chains, nor that they can do it.
As I read this, bombs are falling over Kiev. Over the libertarian city that suffered through three cold winters. A hero city that oversees the magnificent monument of the Mother of the Fatherland with a twisted sword, the work of Montenegrin Jevgeni Vučetić. Bombs are falling all over Ukraine, a country from which the Nazis took over five million inhabitants. Our thoughts are with them tonight and will be until the final victory. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes! Glory to all victims of terror, Holocaust and genocide! Death to fascism! That Montenegro is eternal - concluded Barović.
Civic activist Ana Pejović reminded her fellow citizens of how much the city at the foot of Trebjsa gave to the fight against fascism, that it is a city with 48 national heroes, that Nikšić had 502 memorial bearers, that it had 12 anti-fascist priests, 1,516 fallen fighters, that it had 665 victims of fascist and Chetnik terror, while 2,839 of its citizens languished in fascist camps.
205 people from Nikšić died on Sutjeska alone, and 250 anti-fascist monuments were erected in this city. This is why we are here today and because of the 400 or so memorials, because we have perpetuated anti-fascism and anti-Semitism and fundamental civilizational values. We also know that three million Jews, 800,000 Roma were brutally murdered, and that a total of six million innocent people perished in the Second World War. The brightest pages of Montenegrin anti-fascism are written by the fact that there were never death camps in Montenegro, as there were in Croatia and Serbia. There, the infamous SS divisions and Ustasha units carried out genocide against the innocent people, both in Jasenovac and Belgrade's Sajmište, and no one in these areas died as a result which is of non-Aryan race. The five-pointed stars shone in our hearts, so the stars of David illuminate us with the same brightness. One of these stars is the star musician Lujo Davič, born in Belgrade in 1908, who after the April War in 1941 came to the city at the foot of Trebjsa with a group of students from Nikšić and got a job at the then Hotel Nikšić, which was converted during the occupation. to a restaurant for Italian officers. In 1942, on June 25, Davičo threw a bomb in the hotel canteen and several occupation officers were killed, but he did not escape the massacre either - said Ana Pejović at Slobode Square in Nikšić.
She said that anti-fascists from Nikšić will not allow evil and hatred to reign in the current crazy time.
You tried to humiliate the defiant smile of Ljub Čupić and Joko Baletić by shamefully writing down Ljub's monument, by desecrating the NOB's monument assets, by canceling the mandatory part of funds to UBNOR. You failed. We answered you with the most beautiful lines "O white goodbye" and "Alien hordes are coming through the night, you are rushing my heroes, we must pass", and we left you with epic-chauvinist wailers to comfort you in the huts and huts, because the Serbian flag will never fly again neither in Prizren nor over Rumija - Pejović pointed out, among other things.
Vladan Šturanović also said that days like this serve to remember one of the biggest crimes against humanity.
Montenegro has always been a home for all those who felt threatened, all those who needed help and salvation. Today we live in a strange time, some common values have been lost and obscured, but the Montenegrin victims in the Second World War are not negligible and we do not forget them, especially since our people ignited the flame of uprising in the then enslaved Europe - said Šturanović, emphasizing that Montenegro, like perhaps no other country in the world, can boast that there are more Jews today than before the Second World War.
Student Nevena Baletić also spoke in Nikšić, pointing out that young people in that city and in Montenegro want to oppose the outlines of the long-defeated fascist ideologies that are emerging today, that they want to live in a libertarian city and in Montenegro, that they want to be a beacon of anti-fascism...
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