Independenceists and communists
The history of the Slovenes is constantly intertwined with the reckoning between backward and progressive forces.
Such relations were already established during the Habsburg Monarchy, when clerics under the leadership of the RKC blocked the ideas of progressives to change the situation of Slovenes. They saw the end of the First World War with relief in the belief that the time had come when, after decades of effort, we would place our rightful place in the history of European nations and create our own country of Slovenes. The very first attempt to unite as an equal nation into a community of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ended miserably. Unfortunately, the Slovenes did not enjoy this design for long, as the Balkan kitchen, with the help of Slovene clerics, cooked up a minestrone in which we lost our nationhood as Slovenes and ended up in a kind of “Drava banovina”, which pushed us into international isolation.
Thus, for the first time in history, Slovenes received the status of statehood after the Second World War after the victorious national liberation struggle against fascism, Nazism and domestic traitors within the framework of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The defeated clero-fascists (in the service of the fascists and Nazis under the command of the Catholic Church) could not get over the historical truth that the communists, as the most advanced political force, were most deserving of liberation and the establishment of statehood. We are too little aware that the Slovenes could not have survived in the new country with the state system at that time, without the help of the Yugoslav nations. The new country was served by the Home Guards who defected with the help of foreign klero-fascist organizations. Unfortunately, the new state formation of Yugoslavia also split later due to the Great Serbian appetites for dominance. Already at the time when the first cracks were appearing in the relationship between the nations in Yugoslavia at the time, there were initiatives for an independent Slovenia.
Simultaneously with the strengthening of the idea of an independent Slovenia, a struggle for power was being prepared. The time has come for the revolutionaries-in-waiting from the ranks of the still-living Home Guards, klero-fascists of all colors and their descendants. As I have said several times, the backward forces were preparing not only for independence, but above all for the establishment of a new political-economic model, capitalism. Slovene men and women came to the polls to support the idea of an independent Slovenian state, and disguised klerofascists, with the help of clerics trained in Argentina, imposed a new political-economic model on us. At that historical moment, power could only be seized by offering the people a model by which to determine the culprit for all the ills experienced by the citizens in the past. There was no dilemma regarding the “culprit”, it was supposed to be the communists, who had been a thorn in the side of these home defense structures long before the Second World War. All the sins and problems that we as a nation or as individuals experienced in the past were blamed on the communists. Under the umbrella of Demos, political anonyms and incompetents sneaked in and took power, among them were ex-communists who turned in the wind when they sensed an opportunity to seize power. Fortunately, their rule was very short-lived, but in that short time they did irreparable damage to Slovenia and Slovenes; they robbed the country and us of social property, imposed unjust economic relations and enrichment at the expense of the poor and former social property.
Ever since independence, these right-wing structures have been trying to take power at the expense of the slanderous slogan about the guilty communist. Because they do not have a real, worthy socio-political concept, they are still after 35 years scaring voters from the communists and want to blame them for all the problems even during the independent state. And who are the communists who most characterized the post-independence period and are truly responsible for the ugliest things in the country? The first among them is certainly Janez Janša, the self-proclaimed leader of independence, a person who has been living at the expense of taxpayers for 35 years and in his life did not contribute anything to the social product of the country with his work, a politician who justified the systemic corruption in independent Slovenia, proved to sell weapons and never explained where the money from these sales was hidden, sold Mercator under the table, etc. He is only the tip of the iceberg of the communists in the SDS party and other right-wing parties. He is accompanied by ex-communists in various roles, from right-wing ideologues (Jambrek, Jerovšek, Rupel, Zver) to military operatives (Grims, Gorenak, Šircelj, Tanko, Černač, Cukjati, Hojs, Bavčar, etc.).
These are the same ones who presented themselves in the last elections as the saviors of Slovenia from collapse. Aging ex-communists with no advanced concept of running the country, who had already tried three times, were entrusted by the voters to run the country for the fourth time. This mistake is followed by a period of “black-white” relations and “head-snapping”, as one of their extremists publicly announced. And do you really believe that these are the people who will crush rampant corruption after honing this model to mastery during covid?
Jožef Martini, Ljubljana
