Ministry of Culture of Serbia: Pristina attempts to claim Serbian cultural heritage with banal lies

The Ministry of Culture of Serbia responded to the statement by Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who claimed that Serbia committed "culturicide in Kosovo," stating that this is yet another shameless distortion of truth in Pristina's persistent attempts to absurdly claim Serbian cultural heritage and shift the blame for its systematic destruction, which has been ongoing for decades, onto the victim itself.

In a statement to Kosovo Online, the Serbian Ministry of Culture condemned "yet another shameless distortion of the truth."

"Despite the fact that Serbian cultural heritage has been subjected to systematic destruction, burning, desecration of cemeteries, breaking and vandalizing of churches, theft of artifacts, forgery, and looting, Pristina allows itself the unparalleled brazenness to accuse Serbs and the Serbian state of vandalism and violence against Serbian cultural heritage," the Ministry's statement reads.

It further notes that in this "brutal attack on cultural heritage and truth," Albin Kurti is undoubtedly guided by well-known principles of fascist propaganda, which claim that a lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth and that the bigger the lie, the more believable it is.

"Guided by these principles, Pristina truly could not have come up with a bigger or more obscene lie. In the entire perverse construction of reversing the roles of executioner and victim, fabricated numbers play a special role, intended to create the impression that these propagators of absurdities were allegedly keeping some kind of records, and that the so-called commission of the so-called state did anything other than invent ways to cover up crimes and an active policy of violence against everything Serbian with baseless accusations. What else could be expected from an 'authority' that boasts about restoring the house of Xhafer Deva, a fascist ideologue and proud recipient of an order personally awarded by Adolf Hitler," the statement adds.

The Ministry of Culture of Serbia emphasizes that Serbia will never stop nurturing the heritage of Serbian Kosovo.

"Let them continue, to their shame, accusing the guardians of heritage and those whose names are inscribed on broken tombstones, and whose benefactors built everything they now wish to destroy or appropriate for centuries. Serbia, despite all this, will never cease to protect with all its strength, warn the whole world, and nurture the heritage of Serbian Kosovo and Metohija, which, even when on the List of World Heritage in Danger, remains a jewel in the crown of humanity's cultural heritage," the statement concludes.

Earlier today, Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated that the report documenting the "culturicide committed by Serbia in Kosovo" also testifies to the systematic destruction of Kosovo's cultural heritage, and that Pristina is committed to truth and justice for, as he claims, "all the crimes committed by genocidal Serbia."