The Slovenian Way of "The Lives of Others"
The Slovenian Way of "The Lives of Others"The Slovenian Way of "The Lives of Others"

Summary/Abstract: The author describes the extremely complex situation in Slovenia during the Second World War and afterwards regarding the worst violations of human rights by the secret communist political police, which was one of the most important instruments of domination and repression in the hands of the ruling communist party. Most of the archival material of the secret political police was destroyed or has been kept in Belgrade after the fall of communism and the breakdown of Yugoslavia 1991. One of the key elements of clearing up the totalitarian past lies in the accessibility of the archival material of the secret political police. By turning down the amendments to the Slovenian archival law in the 2011 referendum, the large majority of the Slovenians showed the awareness of the importance to open the archives and consequently of the right to know about the dark past.

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