wow. this thing about communists being good for Serbs is crazy.
We must live in different realities. As soon as communists came to power in Montenegro they tried
everything to extinguish serb identity there. I remember countless old people recounting events
from back then. During a census when some old timer would proudly proclaim being a Serb the
communist would write "Ok, Montenegrin". Djilas first came up with "Montenegrins are a different
kind of Serbs" and that Montenegrin automatically meant Serb but lets focus on just writing
Montenegrin as Serb is hidden-ly implied anyone (very sneaky). Several generation later and
some in Stara Crna Gora (ex. Cetinje) started seeing Montenegrin as something fully separate
from Serb and basically to them Serb basically automatically means someone from Serbia
(therefore confusion terms Serb and Serbian which was again sneakily done by communists).
Also these same communists killed during 2WW 200 clergy members in Montenegro and
did everything in their power to kill orthodox church in Montenegro. Even targeted Njegoseva
Kapela on Lovcen and converted it to Masonic Njegosev Mauzolej. Several years before this
Vatican was urging Communists to do EXACTLY THAT (destroy Kapela and bilt Mauzolej).
Also same communists created new ethnicities from Serbs ('Muslims'>Bosniaks, Macedonians
and of course Montenegrins). At the same time Istra, Dubrovnik, Baranja were given to Croatia
while even Serbia proper in effect lost Vojvodina and Kosovo. Kosovo doubled in size after 2WW
from 5000sqkm to 10,000sqkm because communists planned to give it as a gift to Enverist
Albania which did not phane out cause London ordered Tito to abandon Stalin in late 40's.
Even they forbade 200,000 Kosovo Serbs that were expelled by Albanian fascists during 2WW
to return to Kosovo while at the same time bring 100,000's of Albanians from Albania
to settle in Kosovo. In Serbia and especially Kosovo Communists would be very clear to any Kosovo
Serb that was complaining of discrimination against Serbs in Kosovo to understand that Kosovo
now belongs strictly to Albanians. Titoist communists were saying this!
Not to mention that even catholic Bunjevci in Vojvodina (centered around Subotica) were forced
by same Communists to be declared as Croats even though almost none of them wanted this!
In Croatia and Slovenia catholic church ran unhindered during all of this.
Please quote someone since I do not believe anything such as that prior to 2WW does not exist
from Montenegrins themselves. Communists since Dresden meeting in 1920s proclaimed
taht Montenegrins are no longer Serb but separate identity which is the view Austro-Hungary and
Fascist Italy shared. Not to mention Vatican that wants to turn Montenegrins gradually into
anti-serb Uniates.
Western power centers.