European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Once, two of us, both members of the district committee of the LF in Siska –
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it was Vida Janezic, who today is proclaimed a national hero, and I –
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we both used a bucket and poured axle grease along the length of Celovska Street and covered it with LF inscriptions.
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Another time we wrote all over Celovska Street, opposite the Union brewery.
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But it snowed the next morning and covered over everything we wrote.
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Another very important thing: demonstrations.
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I don’t know if any other country in occupied Europe arranged demonstrations, or as many as were in Ljubljana.
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First they were women’s demonstrations, demanding that the men be released from the internment camps.
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These demonstrations were held in front of the train station,
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and then in front of the military leadership and the administrational leadership of the occupier.
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Eventually, in front of the Ljubljana diocese, as well. I was at all of these demonstrations.
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More were held here in the cemetery, by the graves of the hostages.
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It was the Italian occupiers who gunned down every LF movement. They shot so many innocent hostages.
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Today it still is a small graveyard of those who fell as hostages.
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The largest movement was at the surrender, at the fall of fascism, not yet the surrender of Italy.
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At that time Italy, as the occupier, felt weaker and we could afford to stage a huge demonstration on Miklosiceva Street.
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Men and women alike participated. Miklosiceva Street was swarmed with demonstrators.
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I noticed how the occupiers’ military vehicles went up and down the road
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and how the soldiers sat on them and how some of them seemed in favor of what we were doing.
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Some even smiled or waved. Soon after, Italy surrendered.
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