PART II: YUGOSLAV EXPERIENCE FROM NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - Slovenia and Slovens in Yugoslavia: Reasons for Entering and Exiting
PART II: YUGOSLAV EXPERIENCE FROM NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES - Slovenia and Slovens in Yugoslavia: Reasons for Entering and Exiting

Author(s): Božo Repe
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Summary/Abstract: The current Slovenian view of Yugoslavia, particularly from a political standpoint, is based on the thesis that Yugoslavism was a solution arrived at out of necessity, something that helped the Slovenians to overcome a diffcult period until they returned to where they belong –to so-called Europe. History, of course, paints a different picture. Slovenians did believe in Yugoslavia and they invested a lot of energy and money, as well as political effort, into its democratization; both major politicians, priest Anton Korošec and communist Edvard Kardelj were proud Yugoslavs, but both also saw in it an ideological connotation: Korošec saw a guarantee that his party would have absolute rule over Slovenia in agreement with the court and Serbian parties and that he would organize it in accordance with Catholic principles, while Kardelj was convinced that the main connective tissue of Yugoslavia was socialism and that the country would collapse without it – which ultimately did happen.

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