A few days ago, Slovenian mainstream media outlets practically crucified Štrancar, an entrepreneur from Ajdovščina, for comparing Prime Minister Golob to Mussolini. However, Golob’s partner wrote a similar post some time ago, only hers was even more grotesque.
Last week, Štrancar wrote on X: “An anti-Slovenian who legalised the theft of taxpayers’ money and turned lies into a virtue. A similar man, when he destroyed Italy, was hanged upside down with his concubine at a gas station in Milan in 1945.”
The Prime Minister understood the statement as a call for liquidation, even though this is not what was written and was clearly not the intention of the entrepreneur’s post, as he later explained. Nevertheless, we witnessed an orchestrated pogrom by the mainstream media and threats from the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) parliamentary group. The post, albeit crude, was clearly exploited for pro-government propaganda.
As noted by several political analysts and commentators, the post was followed by a series of (apparently coordinated) media reports that sought to portray the Prime Minister and his partner as potential victims.
A user of the social network X with the username Libertarec wrote: “Today, there is coordinated reporting by the government media: 24ur, RTV, SIOL, Dnevnik, Delo. The reports show that the reporting is centrally coordinated, that the key messages are the same and copied from the Freedom Movement party. Štancar is right. Death to fascism.”
The Prime Minister’s partner, however, recently published a rather grotesque post, which could be interpreted as her desire to skin her critics and use their skin to make fashion accessories she likes.
Grotesque mockery by the Prime Minister’s partner
Namely, not long ago, she wrote in a comment on Facebook: “If I could make a handbag or a belt out of people who write such comments, I would also wear leather and fur.” She added a laughing emoji to the post. As if to say she wasn’t serious. She probably didn’t know that her joke had a real historical background.
Those interested in history are probably familiar with the name and story of Ilse Koch, the wife of the commander of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. She went down in history as a war criminal who, after the war, faced accusations of selecting Jewish prisoners with interesting tattoos and having their skin made into lampshades and other objects. Post-war investigators were unable to prove the accusations, not because such atrocities did not take place in the camp, but because others were probably responsible for them.
The Prime Minister’s partner made her statement somewhat jokingly, at least that is how her statement can be understood. But if our media had acted as the media close to the government did in Štrancer’s case, we would have taken her statement completely seriously.
S. K.
