European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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And Slovenia was divided among the occupiers, which means the Italians…
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Hitler came to Maribor and said: Make this land German again for me, the Hungarians took Prekmurje.
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There were some villages in Bela krajina that even the Croatians usurped.
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We were obliged to constitute ourselves as a nation and as a country; nobody acknowledged us.
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Only by strongly determined fighting we forced our allies to understand a people lives here,
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a nation with its own language and its own culture and tradition.
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That’s why the significance of this fight was so essential and vital.
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Had there been no Partisan movement, the Primorje would not be a part of Slovenia now.
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Being an individualist in war time
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While we waited for the breakthrough, many of the boys under my leadership, cried from fear.
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It was a horrific sight.
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The same boys, aged 17, 18 or 20 at the most, volunteered for dangerous actions, attacks, within half a year.
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When a man has weapons, when he witnesses the deaths of his colleagues,
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his friends, even his neighbors from the very same village, a murderous passion overwhelms him.
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When in combat, sooner or later the logic prevails that death to the enemy is your life.
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Perhaps now as I look back upon myself as a man who considered himself a poet,
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I was a tremendous individualist.
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Of course, in a war the units are under strict discipline,
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all organized according to a military structure quite necessary for leading into any type of combat.
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It wasn’t for me though; it didn’t suit my character. There was another aspect of human character.
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