"And last year at this time, I vowed that we would build." memorial center in Donja Gradina", said the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, in Donja Gradina, Republika Srpska, on Sunday, April 19, which the Government of the RS declared "Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Ustasha Crime - Genocide in the Concentration Camp Jasenovac and his largest execution site Donja Gradina" in the NDH from 1941 to 1945.
Although Vučić likes to repeat that everyone before him tried to cover up the crimes committed by the Ustasha against the Serbs (which he did this time too), April 22, the day when inmates tried to break out of the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1945, was adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia on December 5, 2011, when Boris Tadić was the President of the Republic and Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković
"In the past year, they tried to destroy Serbia, to destroy our homeland. One of the reasons was that we don't talk about our past openly. And I promise you that not a day will pass, and that I will have meetings every week, until a memorial center is built here with our money, from Serbia," said Vučić.
He said that, admittedly, five years ago, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the establishment of the Jasenovac concentration camps and death camp system, when the Republic of Serbia and the Republika Srpska decided to build a memorial center on the border with Croatia, in the area of Donje Gradina at the confluence of the Una and Sava rivers, opposite the central Jasenovac camp, that big flower-shaped monument, Bogdan Bogdanović's masterpiece.
Vučić explained even then that it should be a "all-Serbian shrine" and that he would invest "a lot of money" in it.
The All-Serbian Shrine of Aleksandar Vučić
Bishop Nikolai and Bertold Brecht
On this occasion, Vučić recalled the words of Vladika Nikolaj, who once stood out for his anti-Semitic writings and admired Adolf Hitler, and the words of Bertold Brecht, a communist, who, the president said, warned against the vampirization of Nazism.
So he continued: "During communism, they equated us. It was not Zagreb that was bombed, but Belgrade. Belgrade welcomed Hitler with a fight, and Zagreb with flowers. Today, we who fought against Nazism are villains, and all those who were the most faithful servants of the Nazis are probably good guys." He did not want to delve into the role that Milan Nedic played under the German occupation, nor how the Ravnogorsk movement ended up in the arms of the Germans, but it is nice that he (indirectly) referred to Tito's partisans, because thanks to them, the Serbs gained the reputation of an anti-fascist people during the Second World War.
Photo: Tanjug/Srna/Borislav ZdrinjaAleksandar Vučić, Milorad Dodik and others
And then he wondered why Jasenovac wasn't released earlier, and why the communists didn't immediately break through.
"Why were the crimes in Jasenovac hidden," the shocked president also asked, without explaining how they were hidden when they were taught about in Yugoslav schools, for example, and the "Stone Flower" in Jasenovac was erected with all the fanfare in 1966.
Bombing and conditioning
So what followed was about us good people, who somehow always turn out to be "villains", and those corrupted by them. So Vučić also said that "a cult of hatred towards Serbs is being built in the region", and by God, it extends beyond.
"No matter how much they extended a hand to those who committed the most terrible crimes, there was never an end to the conditions. And when they bombed our country, they said it was because of Milosevic. When he left, they asked us to hand him over, and they found the worst cowards in the Serbian race for that. To extradite their president on Vidovdan. And then they said that the future was open for us, and not five days had passed, a new condition arrived. Then they demanded the arrest of all other Serbs. There was no end to that list." reminded Vučić. And all this together so that they could steal Kosovo from us.
The President of the Republic told all those who care about the Serbs, Serbia and Serbia to think that they know how small and weak we are, but that they do not know "how proud we are", and that he will teach them that. And that in the bad age that is looming over us, "one small proud Serbian people will show them what the island of freedom in Europe looks like."
An implacable and proud president
"They thought that in the previous year they would appease me by speaking about their lies as if they were the truth. They failed in that, they do not understand that nothing is important to me, except the future and the pride of my people. And I will not trample on my people in order to be in power and flatter someone," exclaimed the president on the occasion of the commemoration of the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Ustasha Crime - Genocide in the Jasenovac Concentration Camp and its largest execution site, Donja Gradina" in the Republic Serbian.
And since he is so defiant and proud, those who think ill of us "want to choose obedient leaders for us, to look for those who will keep silent about Jasenovac".
And that's why, not because they demand the rule of law in Serbia, Vučić and his supporters will oppose, because "our grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not die for nothing, they didn't kill our children here for nothing, this country is covered in blood, and we have no right to be silent on the cry of this country and the blood that comes out of it", said, among other things, the President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksamndare Vučić.
Patriarch Porphyria and many other officials were also present.
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