{"id":954801,"date":"2026-04-10T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=954801"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:18:12","slug":"radonjic-crnogorci-ne-poznaju-svoju-istoriju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/politika\/radonjic-crnogorci-ne-poznaju-svoju-istoriju\/","title":{"rendered":"Radonji\u0107: Montenegrins do not know their history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of the Cetinje Branch of the Matica Crnogorska <strong>Luka Lagator<\/strong> He greeted the visitors and read Radonji\u0107's biography.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cerovi\u0107 recalled that dark clouds have loomed over Montenegro after its hard-won independence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Montenegro is currently going through its existential crisis, perhaps one of the biggest and most dangerous so far. The fact that it is not formally at war anesthetizes many people's attention and reaction. This can partly explain the indolence of the majority of its citizens who, as if in a delirium and without reaction, watch their house burn \u2013 said Cerovi\u0107 and added that Professor Radonji\u0107 was a witness and participant in events in many previous decades, both as an outstanding political scientist, lawyer and historian, and as an actor in political processes from the highest positions until 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 That is why the various forms of attacks on Montenegro that came and are coming from the same addresses, and all with the same goal, are not unknown to him. In the period after the destruction of socialist Montenegro, which was unprepared for the collapse of the SFRY, joining Serbia in its insane war campaign against other former Yugoslav republics, after many warnings and advice that he gave, and obviously had no one to turn to, Radonji\u0107 withdrew from all the highest political and party positions that he held both in Montenegro and at the federal level \u2013 said Cerovi\u0107. He spoke about Radonji\u0107's scientific work, personal and civic courage, his attitude to present arguments, and emphasized that he is one of the rare people who is not subject to the influence of government and power structures on his views that he expresses in public, but rather an uncompromising and above all free man and intellectual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radovan Radonji\u0107 pointed out that Montenegrins do not know their history well enough, especially not from an objective perspective, from which a number of problems, including current ones, arise. He also created a systematization in which he explained in the first part what Montenegro is, in the second what brought it to where it is today, and finally wondered if there was a way out of the current situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 What we have now is not a state, this social scalamari is not its own, it is not independent, it does not have the highest degree of independence, sovereignty. We are waiting to see what the Venice Commission will say, we are waiting to see what the European Union will say or what Belgrade will say or what the Russians will say, and so on. And what is Montenegro waiting for and where is it going, towards what? Towards the only possibility of finally finding a group of Montenegrins in this country who will not go with banners to sing \"viva vero\" but who are organized, firmly resolved to achieve what they want and ask this government to resign and to ask the European Union to also work on it, because by accepting such a Montenegro it is not doing any good to itself, Montenegro, Europe, or the world \u2013 said Radonji\u0107 and reminded that Montenegro was the only free country at the beginning of the 18th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 According to foreign, serious authors, Montenegro was, although smaller than the tip of a pin, a gate that controlled the penetration of the East into Europe. It was Montenegro that saved the Allies and their goal of defeating the fascists in 1941, because the 27 divisions that remained in Montenegro for five weeks, according to the assessment of the world's greatest experts and leaders of World War II, including Winston Churchill, prevented the divisions destined for the East from arriving before the snows, because if they had arrived \u2013 Moscow would have fallen and the war would have been resolved in a different way. Montenegro is deserving and is asked, together with Yugoslavia, to call on the world to resist fascism \u2013 said Radonji\u0107.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Montenegro's freedom has always had its price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 It was always saved in a heroic manner. No one took into account which house would die and how many would die. How many homes are there in this municipality alone from which three sons died in the People's Liberation War \u2013 Radonji\u0107 reminded.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An author's evening by professor and political scientist Radovan Radonji\u0107 entitled \"Montenegro facing European challenges\" was held last night in Cetinje. Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro Dra\u017een Cerovi\u0107 also participated in the program. With this, Matica Crnogorska began a series of programs marking the 20th anniversary of the restoration of Montenegrin independence, Matica announced.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":954802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7282,1917,30072],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-954801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politika","tag-crnogorci","tag-istorija","tag-radovan-radonjic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954803,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954801\/revisions\/954803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954801"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=954801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}