“Milan Kučan’s thinking is the same as Putin’s. He wants to divide the blame for the war between Russia and Ukraine. Independent Slovenia was also never a preferred option for him,” reads Darnika Vrabič’s comment on Kučan’s recent statement about the war Ukraine, and Prime Minister Janez Janša added that “the Slovenian public finally understands why this man, who was the President of the Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia at the time, helped disarm the Territorial Defence of the Republic of Slovenia in May 1990, and even signed a declaration against the Slovenian Army in February 1991.”
Saturday’s episode of the show Utrip (Pulse) played a statement by former President of the Republic of Slovenia and the last leader of the League of Communists of Slovenia, Milan Kučan, from last Tuesday’s “rally for peace,” which turned out to be just another anti-government protest. Kučan attended the rally because, according to him, it is absolutely necessary to protest against what is currently happening. So far, so good, but right after that, he said that “the war should not be happening, and whatever led to it and gave Putin a reason to do what he is doing, should not have happened either.” This shows that Kučan is justifying violence and is blaming Ukraine, the European Union, NATO, the USA, and others for the attack.
With this type of thinking, he is not doing any favours to Ukrainians, who made their own decision and decided to try and join the EU and the West – they chose the path to a better life. Kučan also expressed concern over the fact that the entire international community is concentrating on weapons – “on as many weapons as possible, instead of demanding a truce, which would allow for normal negotiations.” He pointed out Slovenia’s experience from the war of independence when a temporary truce was followed by peace talks in the Brijuni Islands. According to Kučan, the purchasing of weapons will cause nothing but more and more dead and wounded and will also bring growing devastation.
He has lots of experience with disarmament
Kučan should know, as he remembers from the war of independence and even earlier, from the communist revolution, that the nation must first be disarmed so that it is then incapable of defending itself. This is the only way to force it into submission, which is also what Putin expected to happen in Ukraine, as he wanted to use a “blitzkrieg” and intimidation to subordinate Ukraine to himself in just a few days. It should be pointed out here that armed resistance was actually the key to Putin’s failure; however, Kučan apparently wishes that Putin had been successful. It is a well-known fact that the left-wing governments have always turned towards Moscow and away from the West in their policies, precisely because of Kučan, who proved once again this past Tuesday that he is on the side of a tyrant, that he is a Putinist, and that the rally was just another anti-government session of the power-hungry individuals.
Sara Kovač
