European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It was constantly recited, and we all carried miniature books of Presern and Gregorcic.
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They were all too ready to protect me and keep me safe, while they went into action.
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Half of them had already fallen within a year.
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They were consciously prepared to risk their lives to protect me.
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They would fall, while I, the poet, and I wasn’t much of a poet back then, would only write poems.
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Such comradeship, such ethics as I experienced then… Mind you, I’ve mentioned one mere example…
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I never before, nor ever thereafter came across such again.
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So, during the actual fighting, Partisan ethics were at their heroic apex; they were pure.
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Things happened after the war.
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Once it’s all over, when you finally feel that all the bad is over and done with,
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that’s when uncontrollable human passions surface;
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and of course already the first political reckonings, settlements and everything bad.
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That’s why I, even today, while history is revised, always say that it was a clean and pure fight for liberation.
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Especially with the Slovenes, in contrast to the French, the Czechs or whoever,
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who fought for the uniting of Slovenes into one community. It was pure and ethical.
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Later the passion began. It’s when some get weapons into their hands
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and also deem themselves as having the power to decide who is the enemy and who to take revenge upon.
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Of course things then happen which cause a shadow to fall over even those few ideal
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and idealistic aspects of anti-fascism, across everything that occurred between 1941 and 1945.
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First combat with German forces
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