The Slovene Story
The Slovene Story

Summary/Abstract: In Slovenia, as in other parts of Yugoslavia, the liberalization of the sixties was stifled at the turn of the decade. A systematic and massive purge of economic, political and cultural apparatuses marked the dawn of the leaden seventies, the era of cultural revolution Yugoslav style. The first real breach of that settlement occurred in the late seventies in Slovenia, and with the launching of the democratization process, the unitary state began to crumble away. Yugoslavia was created in two European wars and accommodated more to a Western power calculus than to the interests of local peoples; in addition, it was ruled for much of the time, covertly or overtly, by a military hand in Belgrade. It could not survive democracy and was therefore determined to prevent it from developing. In the yet unfinished drama generated, in its final acts, by the conflict between democracy and permanent revolution, Slovenia is (cum grana sal is) the only "success story."

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