By Tanja Brkić (Nova24tv)
“When we entered the hall, various portraits were waiting for us: Milan Kučan, Edvard Kardelj, Josip Broz Tito, and other party compatriots,” a student from one of Carinthia’s high schools wrote in a letter to Nova24TV, adding that the play belittled the independence fighters, elevated Friday’s cyclists, embarked on Christianity and the church, and involved the Home Guard.
In connection with Friday’s incident at the Slovenian Youth Theatre, where students were left shocked with an extremely uncultured performance, a student from one of the high schools in Carinthia contacted us and described his vision. He wondered whether schools should not be primarily concerned with political neutrality, but they witnessed tasteless far-left propaganda, unworthy of cultural events. We also sent questions about the whole matter to the Ministry of Education.
The performance of “modernised” Cankar’s Farmhands, which the students had to watch as part of the obligatory contents of Slovene, left many speechless. The fact that leaflets of the Levica party and Friday’s cyclists were lying on the ground and that they wanted to use Cankar’s exceptional work as a means of political manipulation of high school students is simply perverted in the broadest sense. How obvious this perversion is, however, is evidenced by a letter from one of the students who shared his experience with us.
Students outraged by extreme left-wing propaganda
One of the students sent us a letter describing his vision, which we publish in full:
“Today (May 6th, 2022) we had a trip to the Slovenian Youth Theatre as a mandatory optional subject, and what followed shocked me (and my classmates). We were told at school that we were going to see Cankar’s Farmhands, but they tricked us. When we entered the hall, various portraits awaited us: Milan Kučan, Edvard Kardelj, Josip Broz Tito, and other party compatriots (of course there were a couple of others: Primož Peterka and Jože Plečnik, but negligible). We watched the show via wireless headphones, which had 3 programmes. When I turned on the first one, a pleasant speech awaited me: “You are the one who stole, who lied to us for 30 years and it is time to answer for your murderous acts. Slovenia has risen, Svoboda has come, and you will be imprisoned for 30 years. You wanted to rob us of our Slovenia, to submit to the Hungarians, so that Ljubljana would become just a suburb of Budapest. You are a traitor who bows to his friend Viktor Orban. In the 10-day war, you wanted to blow up a helicopter over Ljubljana and start a bloody war. You wanted to attack the YPA’s barracks. You oppressed those who did not worship you, you imprisoned dissenters, and you killed your opponents. And the time has come when the nation has met its enemy who lied and stole from us.” (It was not exactly in that order, or just like that, because it is just a hint of what I could remember).
Zastava Slovenije simbolizira vse vrednote, ki smo jih zapisali v ustavo in za katere smo se pripravljeni zavzemati.
Zastava Slovenije simbolizira izjemno enotnost, ki je bila dosežena v postopku osamosvajanja.
Umetnost na posnetku je vredna prezira. pic.twitter.com/zsjMQAXQ6m— Aleksander Hribovšek (@AleksHribovsek) May 7, 2022
Then I switched between the other two channels and the theme was mostly the same only a little differently. Meanwhile, there was a “cultural event” marked by the distribution of leaflets with the marks of Friday’s cyclists, scenes of beatings of civilians by the police, total mockery of the church and the Christian faith, the release of pigeons and the announcement of freedom, waving the Slovenian flag along the floor and so on. Also interesting was the behaviour of the actors rolling on the floor, shouting, making never-before-heard voices, and performing other primitive behaviours. A home guard also came on stage (I conclude that he illustrated a previously marked person), who was triumphantly removed and then proudly played the song Na juriš. This is just a part of this painful 2-hour “cultural” event we had. Apparently, the school deliberately did not explain to us that this event will only have the same name as Cankar’s play, and that it will be something completely new, more “exotic”.
I do not have to explain who all this was about and what the message of this event was (it is obvious), but I wonder if this is the right content that belongs to the programme of compulsory content for high school students.”