Communist time in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Posted on by Mateja Kregar Gliha

67 thoughts on “Communist time in Ljubljana, Slovenia”

  57. My question was about ethnic political representation in Slovenian parliament that she described – I was wondering if it was a characteristic of Slovenian culture that that existed under Tito or if it was something that the Communists brought. I was under the impression that before WWII the German-speaking ethic minority (Gottscheers) in the region had political representation (or at least were tolerated). So I thought maybe that afterwards, ethic representation might have been a hold-over of that tolerance (although for obvious reasons it excluded ethnic Germans after the war) fter the war

  64. Let me write the anwer to Sahara and maybe others are interested in this topic as well. After the WWII there was a chaos. Tito was affraid he will be killed by Stalin or Soviet Union and there was a lot of hate towards German speaking people as well (like everyone who spoke German was a Nazi). Many people did not feel comfortable at all. They were affraid what kind of communism will be in Yugoslavia, there was not private property allowed (palaces, factories, businesses,…) and I would say a lot of ambitious people left the country because of the uncertain situation. Ethnical Groups along the borders had same rights as local people (because ethnical borders are not the same as political borders: sometimes you get, sometimes you loose. HOwever that meant not for the German minority Sahara is mentioning, because they lived inland of the country. They were concidered as intruders (like came here in 13th, 14th,..century as newcomers) and they should be speaking local -slovenian language. Because they came to SLovenian territory. Before they did not needed that because we were a part of Austrian MOnarchy and German was official language. But after the WWII it was clear that this is the Slovenian territory so everyone should speak Slovenian language. Ethnic Germans did not like the communism anyway, their (and not just their but also from other landlords) property was confiscated so it was for them better to leave the country. Now all of them have the right to get property back.

  66. Thank you for your response. My mother is Gottscheer, which is why we are interested in learning about Slovenia today. I hope to visit some day with my daughter. From my mother’s perspective the Gottescheers were peasant farmers moved around like pawns at the whim of various empires (whether Austro-Hungarian empire who moved them there in the first place, or the Nazis later on). They spoke a dialect of German called Gottschebarisch which was basically the equivalent of Old English – because they were so isolated the language / culture didn’t change much since they were moved to the Slovenian region and basically forgotten for centuries, until the Nazis decided to use them again in attempt to expand his empire.. But from what I gather most of the centuries in Gottschee (Kocejve), although they were a linguistic and cultural island in the region, they lived in peace with their Slovenian neighbours. I notice that many of the recipes I see in Slovenian cookbooks have recipes that we I would consider to be Gottschebarisch specialties 🙂

  67. So parts of our culture shared, probably by women through intermarriages 🙂 Love crosses all bounds that politics cannot

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