By: Branko Grims
Murphy’s basic leftist law: “Whatever they tell you, they always talk about money!”
Leftism is a religion of lies. To expand it, leftists have developed a special language – a system of perverted concepts that only they can properly understand. All normal citizens understand every term used literally, and only leftists understand it in the perverted sense of their speech: “leftism”. The writer Orwell has excellently revealed the conceptual system of leftism: if a leftist uses the term “truth” it is a lie; “peace” is war… and so on. When a leftist talks about “national interest”, it is always solely his most mundane personal interest. And when a leftist thunderously “defends your public interest in front of strangers”, it only means that with the help of lies he will reach deep into your pocket for money for his personal interest! The volume of the shouts of leftists these days about the defence of the Slovenian national interest against foreigners, communicates only one thing to the smart: hold on to your wallet and vote for the right!
In the case of leftists, the national interest always means only their personal interest!
The left-wing opposition has submitted a request to the National Assembly to convene an extraordinary session to “protect Slovenia’s national interest and prevent the sale of the crown jewels of Slovenia’s Sava hotel tourism to foreigners.” For Slovenian leftists, Orwell is really an apprentice… That is why the translation from leftism into Slovene is so important!
In fact, the best Slovenian companies, including Sava hotels, have long since been sold by left-wing governments to foreigners! Yeah, you read that right. Now they are making a fool out of the voters and shouting about the national interest of Slovenian ownership… their media, or rather the left trumpets, are holding on to this! The most important sale of Slovenian state property to foreigners took place more than two decades ago. After hundreds of millions were spent from the pockets of Slovenian taxpayers to rehabilitate Banka Koper, the leftists sold it to Italian owners for little money during the SD, LDS… government. Significantly, they were able to retain management in the bank even under formally foreign owners for many, many years to come.
Alenka Bratušek, co-proposer of the request for an extraordinary session on “protection of the national interest of Slovenian property” led the Slovenian government at a time when the following excellent Slovenian state-owned companies were sold to foreigners: Mercator, Ljubljana Airport, Helios, and Fotona. During Cerar’s government Nova KBM, Elan, Adria Airways, and Aero were sold to foreigners.
During the government of Marjan Šarec, also the co-proposer of the extraordinary session, Terme Lendava was sold to the Hungarians from state ownership. Šarec’s government was formed solely due to the support of the Levica party, which also included the SD, LMŠ and SAB, i.e., exactly those who are now inciting voters against the government of Janez Janša about the things they have done! Always the same trick of leftists: they point a finger at another and hysterically scream “watch out for theft” so that you do not notice that they are the ones pulling your wallet out of your pocket…!
Foreign funds as a repository of the capital of Slovenian leftists
Typically, when left-wing governments sell the best Slovenian companies to foreigners, foreign funds with hidden ultimate owners emerge. Among them, the key place is held by the York Fund, which also owns Sava Hotels. An obvious connection to the left, involved in rescuing Mladina, Petan’s DZS… From now on, everything must be called into question. Could you believe that not the real ultimate actual owners of foreign funds like York, and not all the sideways of their business, can be determined even by a secret service like Sova?
It is obvious that capital, which leftists have been systematically stealing from Slovenia since the 1980s and sending abroad via the Udba network, may be hiding behind foreign funds. According to some data, 73 billion dollars has been transferred abroad to tax havens (and further to foreign funds) since Tito’s death, when preparations for disintegration began in the Udba network by 2018, revalued to its current real value over 100 billion euros. Can you even imagine how extremely rich Slovenia would be without the red leeches that have been robbing it all these decades? It is true that in the process of “privatisation” this capital was partly returned to Slovenia as formally foreign investments, but for the benefit of those who “privatised” this money…
The abstinence delirium tremens of leftists is the result of fear of disclosure
But the socialists have always been a bad landowner in the long run, and when they wanted to repeat the cycle of “privatisation” and the simultaneous enrichment of capital abroad, they clearly failed. Funds like York tolerate – of course expensive, as it is a legal concealment of the rightful owners – parking for a maximum of 7 or 8 years, then demand repayment (“reimbursable” redemption under parking under contractually agreed terms) or jokes are over. Since they have previously required formally unrelated investments as a guarantee, such as an investment in foreign funds from an insurance company that turns over civil servants’ money, this is clearly reason enough to panic. And for the hysterical cry about the “national interest”…!
If the financial network of the former Udba and its successors, which operates through formally foreign funds, collapses, the entire network of the deep state will be shaken, as it draws its power from this source. Therefore, leftists have such a severe abstinence delirium tremens every time a right-wing government is formed, fearing panic about the revelations and consequences of their financial embezzlement. They already know why…
Slovenia needs Visegrad and healthy, development-efficient entrepreneurship!
The economic network of the former secret services is typical of all former socialist countries. The existence of such a network has a doubly devastating effect. It allows the elites of the totalitarian regime to survive and preserve their parasitic privileges. At the same time, it undermines and stifles free enterprise initiative.
It is a public secret that in the countries of the former socialism, you can hardly succeed as an entrepreneur if you do not submit to the ideology and interests that draw their power from the networks of the former totalitarian secret services. In the process of “privatisation”, this power was transferred to property and became permanent, but at the same time it became blurred due to the concealment of the actual owners behind foreign funds. Many bureaucratic obstacles are motivated by the interests of this network, which is also very detrimental to development. Due to the healthy development of Slovenian entrepreneurship, its tax relief, and the release of Slovenia’s development potential, the SDS victory in the elections is so vital. It will decide on economic development and orientation. Thus, there would be no unjust incitement against Hungary in the mainstream media if Visegrad were not today an example of true Europe and economic success and development. Even with economic integration with the countries of the Visegrad Four, Slovenia is objectively moving away from countries that have been overrun by cultural Marxism. This is the best decision for our children. Slovenia needs Visegrad and healthy, development-efficient entrepreneurship!
Branko Grims is a long-time member of the SDS party in the National Assembly, a geologist, and political scientist.