Soviet Montenegro Secedes from Serbia

[Riley1965]

Today, with 55.4% of the vote, Montenegro has voted to become an indepedent State. Here's the link to the news article:

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/serbia_and_montenegro

This may provide a new arena for collecting ODMs of the new Montenegro State.

Doc

[Dave Danner]

Poor writing on AP's part.

Montenegro couldn't secede from Serbia as it is not a part of Serbia. Serbia and Montenegro were separate republics of Yugoslavia until the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was renamed "Serbia and Montenegro". Montenegro was voting to break with the federation, of which it and Serbia are the last remaining members.

It is no more a secession from Serbia than Slovakia's independence was a secession from the Czech Republic.

[Ed_Haynes]

Or of South Carolina from the USA ... oh .....

[Riley1965]

Dave,

Thanks for setting things right!! Sometimes it seems like it's hard to keep up with the changes in that region. I still wonder if there will be a new arena of collecting ODMs

Doc

[Dave Danner]

Or of South Carolina from the USA ... oh .....

South Carolina was part of the United States of America. South Carolina did not secede from North Carolina or Delaware or Rhode Island.

[Dave Danner]

Dave,

Thanks for setting things right!! Sometimes it seems like it's hard to keep up with the changes in that region. I still wonder if there will be a new arena of collecting ODMs

Doc

Yes, on at least two levels:

1. Montenegro would have to create its own decorations, uniforms and insignia, which presumably wouldn't be that different from existing stuff, other than coats of arms, but might involve resuscitating pre-1918 Montenegrin symbols like the Order of Danilo.

2. The Vojska Jugoslavije (Armed Forces of Yugoslavia) only recently renamed itself the Vojska Srbije i Crne Gore (Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro). All that new insignia now becomes surplus.