Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic announced the West's attempts to destroy the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine: “Part of the Western forces in the region perceive the SOC as the ROC in the territory of the former USSR.
As it is necessary to destroy the ROC on the territory of Ukraine ... so the SOC must be destroyed. "
Commenting in this way on the demonstrations and attacks in Montenegro, which were staged by nationalists who oppose the enthronement of Metropolitan Ioannikiy (SOC) of Montenegro and Primorsky, as well as drawing analogies with Ukraine, the head of Serbia is absolutely right.
The situation with an attempt to split the SOC is as simple as a manual of American political strategists who adhere to the principle “It works - don't touch anything.
Act as written ”- if something works and has already shown its effectiveness at least once, there is no need to invent anything else, act as written.
In order to understand what the similarity of the situation in Montenegro is to the one that was implemented by the West in Ukraine, it is necessary to briefly describe the background of what is happening.
The majority of the Orthodox flock of Montenegro sees themselves as an integral part of the SOC, just as the majority of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine do not separate themselves from the ROC of the Moscow Patriarchate (MP).
In a similar way, one can consider the Montenegrins and Serbs themselves as one people with a single cultural and historical matrix, faith, language (with minor dialectical differences).
However, just as in the case of Ukraine, a single people is artificially and by all available means divided into two political nations, for which the project of a separate Montenegrin national state has been actively and supported for many decades.
In addition, which is of key geopolitical importance, Montenegro accidentally cuts off Orthodox Serbia, hated by the West, from access to the Adriatic Sea - and, as a result, to the Mediterranean.
All this together forces Western strategists to make titanic efforts to divide and alienate fragments of one people as much as possible, artificially creating and heating up any differences, convincing in every possible way (primarily Montenegrins) that “Montenegro is not Serbia”.
For three decades, with the support of the West, the Milo Djukanovic regime held in Montenegro, which fully provided the West with all the necessary legal conditions for the transformation of Montenegro into a pro-Western state and its integration into European supranational structures, primarily the EU and NATO.
However, despite all the formalities undertaken (holding a referendum in 2006 on Montenegro's secession from the union state with Serbia, obtaining in 2010 the status of a candidate country for the EU membership, as well as joining NATO since 2017 and using the euro (not joining Eurozone)), the last factor remains, on the basis of which the inhabitants of Montenegro and Serbia continue to be one people.
The belonging of the majority of the inhabitants of Montenegro and Serbia to the SOC is the same cultural and historical matrix that preserves their unity as one people, as well as the belonging to the ROC MP of the majority of the inhabitants of Ukraine and Russia, which makes it possible to say that the Russians and the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Ukraine are this is one people.
From this follows the political technological task number one for those who continue to drive a wedge between Serbia and the Montenegrin political project of a separate national state, an artificial political nation - the Republic of Montenegro - to destroy the cultural and historical basis of one people - a single church for it, creating by analogy with political separate church political technology project.
Of course, Milo Djukanovic, a totally corrupt liberal Westernizer and a hater of everything that connects Montenegro with Serbia, was very convenient for the implementation of this task, who, over the decades of his reign, still managed, despite colossal resistance from the Montenegrin Orthodox society, to create a schismatic Montenegrin false church ...
The same artificial political technology church project, emphasizing the separateness of Montenegro from Serbia, as well as separate from the ROC MP and even from the ROC KP (which is much more separate, but still embarrassed by the abbreviation ROC), the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), the name of which no longer mentions the word "Russian".
Similarly, the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (MOC), created in 1993 as a non-governmental organization, does not have the word "Serbian" in its name.
That is, in fact, the whole idea: everything is simple and technologically sound.
But only the consciousness of representatives of the Western, Anglo-Saxon civilization works like this mechanically: we remove the word "Russian" - we get a new "church", that is, a new project.
Then we knock out the tomos from the Patriarch of Constantinople, completely controlled by the West and controlled by the CIA, and now Ukraine no longer has anything to do with Russia.
It is the same in Montenegro: we change “Serbian” to “Montenegrin” - we get a new “church” that no longer has any connection with Serbia.
True, other Orthodox Christian churches do not canonically recognize it.
So what if Anthony Abramovich, who established the MCC as an NGO, had previously been defrocked in the SOC.
So much the better: since he was expelled from the SOC, it means that he no longer has anything to do with it.
For this he became the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the head of the MCC.
Since 1999, under pressure from the President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, the MCC has been recognized by the government of Montenegro as a religious community.
Everything is logical from the point of view of Western approaches: a separate state, in which a separate president creates a separate "church" for a separate "people".
From that moment on, the active seizure of the SOC flock began, as well as churches, parishes, monasteries - everything is like in Nezalezhnaya.
And now by 2020, according to the survey, about ... 10 (hmm) percent of Eastern Orthodox Christians in Montenegro have chosen the MCC.
True, almost 90 percent chose or remained in the canonical SOC, but when did this embarrass the persistent and consistent Anglo-Saxons?
“We continue to work,” they encouraged the project participants, but here - quite inappropriately - Milo Djukanovic's party in the 2020 parliamentary elections was defeated for the first time and went into opposition.
But Western political strategists (unlike ours) are strong in that, when defeated, they do not lose heart and do not give up, but continue to work, insisting on their own and, as if nothing had happened, promoting their interests.
Despite the loss of political leadership, Djukanovic, with the continued support of the West, continues to try to influence, albeit small in relative terms, but still sufficient for organizing, for example, mass riots, a part of Montenegrin society.
Processed by pro-Western anti-Serb propaganda (just like some of the inhabitants of Ukraine - by Russophobic propaganda), this small part of the adherents of the new "church" with the support of Western funds and tried to organize provocations against the enthronement of the new Metropolitan of Montenegrin-Primorsk Ioannikiy SOC.
So far, the Montenegrin nationalists (who, like the nationalists - supporters of an artificial political nation everywhere, act strictly in the interests of the West) have not been able to significantly influence this situation.
But this only means that the attempts will continue and, knowing the persistence of the Anglo-Saxons, you can be sure that they will not stop until they reach the desired result.
Well, or until someone really stops them.
For example, the united Orthodox people of Serbia and Montenegro under the auspices of the SOC.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.