By: Vinko Vasle
One thing must be clear – we leftists and communists are not about fighting the war in Ukraine, because this is not our intimate option. However, this is the time we can use to make urgent corrections to independence, which was also not our intimate option.
This is best symbolised and rhetorically realised by our great Milan Kučan, when last week at our demonstrations against Orban and Janša he proved that he is a man of continuity, so he protested the fact that now there is only talk about how Ukrainians should be helped with weapons. He said the same thing and did the same as chairman of the presidency when he allowed the disarmament of territorial defence. Even before that, a declaration of peace came from his palace, which was signed, except for Ivan Oman, by all members of the presidency and especially committed young people from the ZSMS Jožef Školč.
Kučan’s message at the time, as well as the present, is that peace cannot be achieved with weapons. When the enemy attacks you, the most you can do is ignore him, even better, wait for him with flowers, which Kučan’s predecessors did in 1941 when they fraternised with the German occupier. As for Ukraine, we leftists have also said that resistance is pointless because Putin will grind them to dust in a few days. As this did not happen, the blame can be attributed to those militant forces in Europe that sent weapons to the Ukrainians, which is unacceptable, as there were many casualties on the side of the attacker, which was not planned. This was also one of the messages of TVS Tarča show. This is not our war, if it is a war at all, because we learn from our mainstream media every day that it is a conflict, if not a fight.
From the trial of Janša to the Golob’s headquarters
And speaking of the media, they are to be commended. Especially the public house RTV, where the spirit of peace reigned for a very long time and the foreign policy department did not want to get its hands dirty with the bloody war in Ukraine. I would like to single out the editor of this editorial office, Meta Dragolič, who is the journalistic superpower who once, together with Tanja Fajon, ingeniously ignored the then EU President Janez Janša. The exercise was successfully repeated last year during the re-presidency. Fajon was awarded the position of MEP for her merits because she did not report anything at the time, and Dragolič, who reported twice and a half without Janša’s pictorial background, was awarded the position of editor of the public house. Because of these and other autonomous journalistic professionalisms, this poor public house was also attacked by the Home Guard with the view that it was a whorehouse, and if the whorehouse was bad, the whores are replaced. At that time, no one ended up in court because of that, because the expression of Kučan’s prostitute is more criminal than the impersonal title of whore. Both, however, are dismissive and worthy of all condemnation and trial, regardless of any arguments that these individuals (journalists) also lied in their reporting. You simply cannot tell a journalist, who made up that Janez Janša is working for a private army, that she is a prostitute or a whore, and you especially should not mention Kučan. Period. The game was a bit spoiled by Mojca Pašek Šetinc, who immediately after Janša’s trial went to the headquarters of Robert Golob as a candidate for deputy. By doing so, she really made rumours come true that politics can also be a whore, but the woman deserved it in her RTV fight.
RTV acting director Valentin Areh and acting responsible Jadranka Rebernik indulged in a great deal of militancy. Instead of accepting the peaceful coexistence of the editorial board of Meta Dragolič, that nothing bloody should be reported, they agreed with the BBC and informed the Slovenian public several times in the evening about what was happening in Ukraine. Therefore, in the news programme, they unanimously demanded that Areh be removed. He went on sick leave and did not run for the tender, and instead of him, the dove-worn old Natalija Gorščak-Fundus applied for the tender. Rebernik received some competition, and the general is waiting to be re-elected. Basically – everything is under the control of the left.
And these times have a few points: away with weapons, away with NATO, away with capitalism, away with vaccination and away with Janša. If leftists and communists win the election, it will be bloodier than in Ukraine. Or, as the March 8th Institute members of Nika Kovač would say – Slovenia will menstruate.