By: Dr. Ivan Klemenčič
We know what democracy is. Rule of the people, human rights and fundamental freedoms, freedom of speech… A functioning political system. And non-democracy? It is its opposite as the broadest concept. Its representatives come to power in its most extreme form with bloody revolutionary violence as a self-proclaimed clique. And when should we pay attention to non-democracy when in opposition?
Its representatives and supporters are immediately recognised by lies; they can only base things on lies. Communism alone would not be without lies. That is, with claims that are inconsistent with both empirical facts and common sense, which should mislead the naïve and harm democratic opponents. It is an open, unequivocal attack on the truth and thus on the people.
They are particularly recognisable because of the claims and accusations of political opponents without evidence. Their truth is clearly irrevocable, absolute. Moreover, as in the days of communist terror, their lie is born out of hatred. Even today, political opponents are not political opponents, they are enemies who must be eliminated in one way or another, liquidated. According to the solid communist tradition, they must also have the number one enemy of the state, who in the role of the villain will be to blame for everything, responsible instead of them. It is not necessary to state who this penetrating critic of the regime in Slovenia, who has been imprisoned three times, is. They also fear him, his truths, and because he is too good for them. The right lightning rod for all the negatives instead of them. Already here is a classic role swap. That is how we came to morality. The above-mentioned non-democracy and morality do not go together.
All this is agreed and confirmed by the fact that the umbilical cord with communism in Slovenia is not broken. Therefore, the latent revolution is not over. Therefore, there is no and cannot be legitimacy. Therefore, efforts to violently overthrow the government, death threats…
Lie to lie or Kučan’s democracy and normalcy
But even this is not the end of cheating naïve Slovenes. An indispensable feature is the undemocratic change of roles. Although, so to speak, chained to communism, they present themselves as self-evident democrats, fighters for a normal Slovenia, its saviours. However, let us not ignore when they accuse the opponent of fascism (it experienced the infamous end of 1943 and is no more, as the accusation today can only be a post-communist puff without content), totalitarianism, incompetence, they talk about themselves. The accused opponent is their mirror. That is how they are. Who then are the fascists, if any, the dictators, the incompetent politicians?
Let us be careful, the insult cannot be a communist. Thus, however, they would accuse themselves and their bloody predecessors, to whom they still hold the sack today, worship them, and go to worship them. Namely, the identity of these publicly proclaimed democrats, defenders of normalcy and democracy, is communism, adapted to the non-democracy of post-communism in the new situation within the European Union. Who else in Slovenia needs to sing Bandiero rosso, who needs to wear red stars, who needs to wear Titovka caps, show off with the “legendary” mass murderer Che Guevara, etc. and in doing so remain legitimate? Violence, accusations, the blood of the innocent, the bloody past, begins and ends with lies.
But we are not over yet. According to the Slovene undemocratic model, this lie is exported abroad, to grateful Brussels for importing ten accusations for domestic use. Because they follow all these lies and immorality at home, they identify with them and spread them in their public media. This is how we live in lies, hatred, immorality.
And one step further. When we listen to the four representatives of KUL, we can pay attention that they are competing who will lie and accuse more. Are they moral, credible politicians? And they must pay special attention to Milan Kučan’s false accusations that they and other new democrats continue to spread the “truth” of the deep state and their mafia godfather, who was – obviously worried – forced to step out of the dark into a fight for “the old communist litigation”. Through his hateful statements and such public appearances, he gives both them and his public media moral support in lying and accusing.
In the Democrats’ response: the immortality of lies, the Ministry of truth, the power of truth
So, we came to the attacked side. It did not remain silent, despite all the extensive testimony in scientific and professional literature abroad and at home, the Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski responded proverbially and significantly with the famous saying: “A lie is the immortal soul of communism.” Today, according to the practice in Slovenia, also shown here, we can only affirm that it is also the eternal and immortal soul of post-communism. The post-war critic of original communism, George Orwell, already knew the Ministry of truth in total non-democracy (in his novel “1984”, 1949), apparently, he must have known something about our virtuous kul members, kučans, golobs, etc. He spoke ironically through Big Brother that when he speaks about the truth, it means a lie, when he speaks about peace, it means war, when he says national interest, it is the private interest of communists and now post-communists, ideologically of course international interest.
Václav Havel was particularly aware of the contradictions of lies, the truth in communism. He titled his critical book on the communist regime in Slovene translation and with its introduction “Living in Truth” for Slovenes, with the subtitle “The Power of the Powerless” (1978, Slovene edition 1994). So, we are at the essence. With Havel, we must also be aware of the paramount importance of truth in non-democracy and spread it. Only the power of truth leads us to democracy.
Censorship for ground-breaking successes
That is why the undemocratic side knows, according to the eighty-year tradition, that the truth in non-democracy must be completely disabled, unconditionally censored. For example, how could it be allowed to announce that the presidential fascist and dictator has become a figure in 2020 for Central and Eastern Europe? How can it be allowed to conclude that such an incompetent government, after intensive contacts at the highest international level, brings Slovenia among the now nine members of the Mediterranean group of countries? Or that the cowardly government for the excellent leadership of the Council of Europe receives so much sincere praise from the highest politicians of the European Union that the opposition can only dream of, and at home there is not a single praise for such a successful government, only incitement and accusation?
That the government continues to help Slovenia in the epidemic with measures, so far ten anti-corona packages and money to individuals and the economy, and maybe not with five billion of our money with high interest rates to incompetent domestic bankers, as former Prime Minister Bratušek did, for which she was not responsible? And that, despite the pandemic, the highest employment in Slovenian history was achieved with government measures? A new achievement because economic growth last year exceeded all forecasts by 8.1 percent. Or should the Economist’s ranking of Slovenia among the 23 OECD members in the second most likely place after the success of the economy in dealing with the epidemic be so deliberately ignored? It is also telling by other similar and non-random facts that Slovenia has been ranked fifth among the safest countries in the world since last year, when it improved its ranking. In tourism, it is already one of the most recommended tourist countries in the world. What should we say? Long live Slovenia!
Really great, ground-breaking successes of our homeland in the difficult conditions of the pandemic. Obviously, the above-average successful government of Janez Janša took action, but Slovenes must not rejoice in this, they must not appreciate this government and the Prime Minister and be aware of the better life given to them after communism. And God forbid that we re-elect the parties of such a successful coalition. If only the incompetent of ours would theoretically had succeeded in this way, with what pomp would they have been immortalised in all their public media, we would have sung their glory day after day.
The constant refrain of Slovene non-democracy in the face of such extraordinary successes is all the more illogical opposition to cooperation with the Prime Minister, his SDS, the Democratic Coalition and thus half of Slovenia. Thus, the KUL parties say directly that they are not compatible with democracy, not to mention their ability to run the country. What they have, as the communist imperative and inherited from the Kučan family, is the number one enemy of the state, and with it the only real anti-Janša programme. And what else does the truth endure? In the post-election period, they called themselves “an alternative to the government’s disruptive policy”. Again, lie after lie, claims without evidence, hatred, role swapping, notorious immorality. Janez Janša is now once again inviting all parties that come to parliament to participate, for the fourth time offering them a partnership for development, which was last adopted by Jelinčič’s SNS.
An exemplary example of non-cooperation is the first party member and supreme mobster of the deep state, Milan Kučan, whom Janez Janša has repeatedly called for a public confrontation, but which he constantly avoids. Why? Because he has no arguments against democracy, against the truth, with lies, with entanglement with fascism and dictatorship, he can only act from the position of force, violence of the Kumrovec school, with the help of his public media. When he is without this help, he is afraid that Janez Janša will expose him to the public as undemocratic and a liar, the former head of the Slovenian Udba, with whom a mobster organised the Depala vas and Patria affair, among other things, he is afraid of the affair with weapons at the Maribor airport, the purchase of weapons in Israel and many other things that greatly burden him.
Where is the evidence of a Democrat being a dictator?
And let’s be completely concrete again. What real dictator and his family can be threatened with death, and stay alive? Let them try with Putin in his police state, 21st century Hitler and the barbarian who is destroying European civilisation. The murder of journalist Ana Politkovska, whom she relentlessly criticised, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium, who he criticised in two high-profile books, and the poisoning of father and daughter Skripal in the UK in 2018 who were barely saved, and seven years ago the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, organiser and speaker against Putin’s re-election, and the recent poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny whom they managed to save. Not to mention perhaps the communist leadership of the traditionally severely impoverished and bloodily repressed Cuba, the Venezuelan Maduro, who wreaked havoc on previously successful Venezuela with utter misery and violence, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un with repression and full closures, and let’s not start talking about China and its totalitarian repressive methods with millions. And now tell us loud and clear how many of them did the dictator Janez Janša poison, how many had he killed, how many had he imprisoned, how full are the prisons with opposition politicians? How many media outlets did he close, how many editorial offices did he took under his control, how many editors did he dismiss, how many journalists did he imprison? How did he impoverish Slovenia after more than seventy years of visual communism and your post-communism? Evidence, where is the evidence? Or step on real ground and do not humiliate yourself with your lies.
Another saviour of the deep state
When the deep state had already given up on the incompetent and quarrelling kul members, a kind of secret guild of the deep state chose a new hope, a new saviour, a new face that, like the fifth in line, is beautifully transparent in the same role as its incompetent predecessors. They chose Robert Golob. And just like each of his predecessors, at that moment he also became the first and most important party man in Slovenia (just as he will soon be forgotten). As we read in a detailed letter from retired SD member Rudolf Horvat to the KUL party presidents, the tactic was to collect centre votes, i.e., left and right, as a centre-right politician, of which he himself spoke about, and added them to KUL for the final victory.
A comprehensively organised action of the left forces took place on all sides until the shock came, because the new candidate was not confirmed for another term at GEN-I, and he himself did a lot of stupid things when he described the right as fascist. The middle ground was over in an instant, the deep state wanted the project to an end. However, the first party member still pushed him forward, apparently as a last resort, because he no longer believed in incompetent and quarrelling Kul members. And now even to their horror, because the newly enthroned Golob will take away their votes and because their two parties are in danger of being expelled from the National Assembly.
Golob did not register his party, has no programme, no team, or any members, he is not in public, but until recently he had a higher salary in the state-owned company for electricity distribution than the American president, as Vinko Gorenak noted. All of this was obviously so incredibly encouraging only in Slovenia for the formation of the public opinion poll that they presented a new face at the top of the list, especially in front of the SDS. As if the leftist was taking the votes on the right, that is the SDS, and not his own. Did the fascists vote for him? Polls in Slovenia do not measure public opinion but create it. They are a projection of our desires. The reality after the elections is usually different, we expect it to be the same this time.
The “central” leftist and persecutor of fascists soon unequivocally confirmed his godfathers by accusing that “the work of the police is the result of this policy of hatred and schism” (in the Tarča show on TVSLO on February 10th, 2022). Polise is not guilty, but the “leadership” is, which leads to a “police state” (by appointing the present Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs as the “Police Minister”). Hate and schism or a classic example of role swapping. Later, he did not miss the opportunity to declare that he would not cooperate with Janez Janša, he also chose the vice president, who, as a judge (!), accused the Prime Minister of being a dictator. The party president confirmed this accusation of the number one enemy of the state. There is no doubt: people with bad intentions stick together.
To conclude, we find that all this insults, incitement, accusations, lies, hatred, role swapping and thus immorality with a long tradition mean powerlessness before the truth. They cannot oppose it calmly and insultingly with arguments. They are powerless, so they are violent. They are also powerless because negative selection has done its thing. They are incapable of running the country. How much longer or when will the Slovene democratic majority overlook the new undemocratic faces?
Dr Ivan Klemenčič is a Slovenian musicologist and publicist.