By: Dr Andreja Valič Zver
We are entering the Year of Our Lord 2026. Behind us lies a year marked by major geopolitical shifts, the continuation of the war in Ukraine, Israel’s destruction of Hamas’s terrorist stronghold in Gaza, and the shaken theocratic rule of Iran. Bloody pogroms by Islamists against Christians unfolded in Nigeria, Sudan, and elsewhere. Almost all of Western Europe trembles before Islamic fanatics, having flung its doors wide open to the invaders under the slogan Wir schaffen das! Europeans are increasingly advocating remigration and a turn to the right, something the Freemason and other elites fear like the devil fears the cross. Under their baton, the European Union is turning into a fortress of shrinking economic growth, the squeezing of European farmers into a corner, censorship, and democratic deficit.
On the other side of the world, South America is shifting to the right, toward a conservative direction in which its northern neighbour marches decisively under Trump’s administration. Trump’s government has rubbed salt into Europe’s wounds, wounds that sting and burn. More and more – amid the unreasonable battle cries from Brussels – we ask ourselves where exactly this mass of more than 60,000 unelected Eurocrats is leading us.
As for the situation in Slovenia, it is hardly worth wasting words anymore. The Golob regime has pushed us to the margins in every possible sense. We had been stuck there for centuries. Independence, two presidencies of the EU Council, and the economic and demographic growth under the three Janša governments proved to the whole world that we are capable of far more than our “smallness” in territory and population would suggest. But the global mafia network sensed its opportunity and seized it thoroughly. Slovenia is in the claws of ruthless predators. The leftists’ war against so‑called capitalists, entrepreneurs, doctors, homeowners, and other property owners, has begun to resemble the mindless rage of the lumpenproletariat known from the times before the communist revolution in Slovenia and elsewhere. It takes very little for everything to turn into an extremely dangerous fire that, just like in revolutionary times, would mercilessly devour all so‑called opponents. And on top of that, the “Free‑Palestiners” and the cycling activists are already in their starting blocks.
Amid these dark clouds above us, I want to recall two courageous men who devoted much of their lives to democratic change in Slovenia and proved that even in the worst storms one must not give up. Both left us forever in a cold December, Dr Ljubo Sirc in December 2016 and Dr Lovro Šturm in December 2021. I had the honour of knowing and working with both of them. They were gentle and kind men who, in one way or another, experienced the yoke of communist totalitarianism. Yet they did not become bitter; instead, they directed their immense life energy toward building a Slovenian state that would be a mother to all. Each played his own indispensable role on the stage of history.
There are still many people in Slovenia who have suffered grave injustices. Even after 35 years, they remain unresolved. But Slovenians have, over the centuries, developed a special survival gene – a virtue, really: we know how to endure, persevere, and survive.
“A time comes when there is no more time,” wrote the poet. In the coming months, we will once again be on the ramparts to defend an independent, sovereign Slovenian state. The only state that is truly ours, hard‑won, long‑desired through many centuries. May the ravenous mafia networks not destroy it forever. I believe that each of us will, according to our abilities, contribute our share in the struggle against the evil that is corroding Slovenian society and the Slovenian state.