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People Paid Tribute To The Father Of The Slovenian State On The Republic Square

On Wednesday’s rally to pay tribute to the father of the Slovenian state, Dr Jože Pučnik, who died twenty years ago, the President of the largest opposition party – the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), Janez Janša, said that Pučnik belongs to the very centre of Slovenia – symbolically and literally. “When …

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Dr Jože Pučnik 32 Years Ago: “Yugoslavia Is No More. Now, It Is About Slovenia!”

The 26th of December marks an event that is considered to be a landmark and unique in the history of the Slovenian nation because we wrote our own judgment at that time. On the 26th of December 1990, the result of the plebiscite on independence was announced, in which Slovenians voted FOR a free and …

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Gorazd Pučnik Receives The Order Of Extraordinary Merit On his father Jože Pučnik’s Behalf

Gorazd Pučnik, son of one of the fathers of the Slovenian state, Jože Pučnik, recently received the Order of Extraordinary Merit, the highest state decoration, on his father’s behalf. The decoration had already been awarded in 2006 by the then-President of the Republic, Janez Drnovšek, who awarded it to Pučnik posthumously when Slovenia celebrated 15 …

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“It Was Quite Difficult for Us Deputies to Listen to Kučan Faking Ignorance, Saying That the Result of the Plebiscite Means a New Agreement of the Nations, After the Result of the Plebiscite Was Clearly Announced by Jože Pučnik”

Despite the very clear decision of the Slovenian nation at the plebiscite in December 1990, many politicians still had strange ideas about the implementation of this historic decision. As many times before and also after, the ideological leader of such “internationalist” ideas was Milan Kučan. During his speech at the formal sitting of the Assembly …

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Thirty Years Ago: The Left-Wing Opposition Attacked Pučnik for Rebelling Against the Yugoslav Army

Representatives of all parties of the Democratic Opposition of Slovenia, known as DEMOS, gathered on Congress Square in Ljubljana at a rally, which was not attended by the left-wing opposition. DEMOS president Dr Jože Pučnik emphasised that Slovenians are a peaceful nation and that we do not ask for anything that does not belong to …

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