Balkan Peninsula Quotes
Note the language “swarm of Turkish Islam” which was a classic technique of dehumanizing the enemy, especially effective when done by a humanist in poetry. The metaphor of Muslims as insects was little different from the Ottoman Islamic characterization of Christians as “spawn of the Devil” and the like. Historically, the Montenegro people fought for the independence from both the Ottomans and the Serbians who, even into the 21st century strove to have Montenegro a part of or subservient to Serbia.
This is an excellent description of the practice of the Serbians of remembering a great defeat as a holiday whereas almost every other culture celebrates victories or positive happenings in their history. The Serbian hatred of the Muslims is stoked every year and this celebration was partially responsible for the atrocities and war crimes committed against the Bosnian Muslims in the Balkans War. Note that there was a different spelling of Yugoslavia in the 1920s. The pronunciation was the same.
