Edited sentence: According to Montenegrin intellectuals Jevrem Brković, Marko Vešović and Novak Kilibarda, there are many nationalists trying to deny the existence of Montenegrins as well as other nations in the Balkans.After the de facto annexation of Montenegro by its war-time ally Serbia at the end of World War I, lyrics have been altered many times in order to make the case of an alleged Serbian heritage of Montenegrins.Having been discredited as forgeries, these attempts are widely regarded by both eminent historians and the general public to be politically motivated and subservient to a Serbian nationalist agenda and a strategy to covertly assimilate fiercely independent Montenegrins.Various forms of these versions of the text can be found in Serbian press reports and propaganda material, and on the world wide web as well, but they seem to have lost their backing after the collapse of the nationalist regime of Slobodan Milošević and are now supported by nationalist individuals, rather than a political entity or regime