By: Dr Stane Granda
For the totalitarian leftism, which only seeks personal gainful power and the redistribution of others’ wealth, excellence in manipulating emotions through the narrative of social justice and the national question is characteristic. Having lost all credibility due to their failure to address social issues in collaboration with the financial oligarchy, which became so through the theft of former social property, they had no choice but to entangle themselves in national issues. They prefer this, as it captures people who would otherwise not support them.
We history students have, on more than one occasion, heard Professor Metod Mikuž recounting Kidrič’s response to questions about his stance on nationality during the Baza 20 discussions: “As a communist, I am an internationalist. Therefore, in the dilemma of whether to prioritise the national or the international, I would choose the latter. I hope I will never be in such a dilemma.” Despite this, they were never ashamed to conceal the abuse. They roared about national authority and government, national liberation committees… In reality, it was not about the national but the people’s. In the translation from Serbian, they tactically retained the label national. Regarding the national army and militia – they no longer needed to hide it as the people’s army and militia. Let’s recall how, after the war, they renamed national committees to people’s committees. It always shook me with leftist Primorska intellectuals, how they suffered because they could not reconcile their national beliefs with the mandatory international.
From the above introduction, it is clear that the dilemma of “annexation” or “returning” Primorska is manipulation, diverting attention from daily failures that seem endless. The international removal of the Rapallo border is such a significant and important event that initiating such a dispute is a transparent political perversion. It would be challenging to find a more suitable term than the existing one. “Annexation” expresses too much respect for fascism. Referring to the resolutions of the Kočevje Assembly, AVNOJ, SNOS… is primarily diminishing the significance of the oldest anti-fascism in Europe and Tigr. The same task is accomplished by the song about the resurrection of Primorska, which, by adopting the melody, displaces the unique Bazovica song by Franc Venturini. If this is not the falsification of history and cultural theft, then it does not exist. It is a denial of the greatness of the victims of Bazovica. Shame!
The background of the donkey truth, which could be possible among linguists or lawyers, not politicians lacking this knowledge, is political and counter-independence. It is an attempt to create, on one hand, continuity between Tito’s Yugoslavia and independent Slovenia and, on the other, to conceal marshal’s greatest political defeat, for which he himself was responsible. AVNOJ resolutions, like all the past, are part of our history but have no significance and merit for the Republic of Slovenia. The decision on the “annexation” (!) of Primorska is an expression of patriotism but without any international weight, as later events confirmed. We did not gain an inch of Carinthia! Borders are determined by peace conferences after the war. Everything else is rhetoric.
The term “Primorska” refers to Slovenian territory beyond the former Rapallo border. Therefore, it is at most a “return” of a large part of Primorska, not the entire region! If we are formalists, it belonged to Yugoslavia, not Slovenia. In international politics, this did not exist! The President of the Yugoslav Expert Commission for Boundary Issues at the Paris Peace Conference from July 29th to October 15th, 1946, Academician Professor Dr Fran Zwitter, who was the director of the Partisan Scientific Institute during the war, publicly stated more than once that there was no chance of acquiring Trieste, only Gorizia. The latter was over when Tito ordered the shooting down of Allied aircraft in September 1946. They miraculously saved the Gorizia railway due to the favour of a French diplomat. To cover up how Tito “messed up” Primorska, the Communists invented the phrase that Tito gained it for us. They concealed the work of Primorska antifascists, who, as Allied special forces, did a lot of work, and Ribičič had them killed. The constant emphasis on exclusively Tito’s merits highlights the famous Solkan group, which has its representative in the government cabinet, responsible for the inscription “Our Tito” on Sabotin and is also behind the closure of the Museum of Slovenian Independence.
The plan initiated by the ruling individuals mentioned above is horrifying. Primorska should only be the part that came to Yugoslavia and is now in Slovenia. The price for this was dreadful. We gained a part of the coast that was never ours but lost the old Slovenian Adriatic coast from Trieste to Gradež, along with its hinterland. The border tore away a significant part of Goriška, where our compatriots miraculously thrive. The plan of the mentioned group is not only horrifying, but it is also dirty. Instead of being held accountable because their famous parallel UDBA (secret police) economy financially literally “stripped” the minority, they want to occupy the Slovenian public with trivial matters. Practically, this means forcing us to renounce our compatriots who are not from Primorska because their Tito did not join them to Yugoslavia.