Yesterday I finally managed to finish reading a book "Tito, mystery of the century", a documented biography of a former president of former Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, written by Serbian author, publicist Pero Simić. Extensive book is just another - actually the eighth - in series of Simić's books on idealized tyrant and criminal, who, especially in Slovenia, is still completely wrongly interpreted by most of the people. And yet still idealized: Tito was good, he gave us freedom, and without him Slovenian nation wouldn't exist today ... and so on. Infinitely. I apologize, but I cannot help myself: well, so what, if Slovenian nation wouldn’t exist? I see no harm in that. But my irony is not the point of the book I've read. I recommend this literature because it nicely and fully describes Tito's "professional" as well as private life, based on preserved documents from Stalin's archives in Moscow. Much has been preserved, lots of truth, long hidden and buried. 

 

 

 

 

 

I admit, I love Croatia, I love Croats even more. Although, in no case can I speak of some special national feelings. It is about sympathy that I just don't feel towards Slovenians and Slovenia. Probably because I know the local mob just too well and I find it sickening. But not to be blamed of being impertinent towards Slovenian nation again during my today's modest record – which at all times and everywhere experiences nothing but injustice, right? – I rather declare in advance, that I'm having rather hard time to intercede for any kind of Slovenian national interests, especially because I don't even know what this odd expression should actually mean? Other than expressing an eternal Slovenian paranoia from foreigners, yes, even from them, from our ex- fellow citizens Croats, towards whom Slovenians often like to behave immensely superior; and also therefore I find the way our neighbours rag us utterly winningly …

 

 

 

Finally a Slovenian translation of the book "Tito, mystery of the century", written by Serbian author Pero Simić, is released. I am really glad of that, because my publisher will now finally devote his attention to my fourth book … 

 

My column in Croatian Poslovni Dnevnik (Business Daily): We Slovenians love Serbs, because they live far away from us

 

Slovenia is doing business thus with Serbia as well as with Croatia, but when we read that Serbs are satisfied with Slovenian investments and want them in even greater volume, Croats immediately contradict.

“And it doesn't matter that we lost to Serbia, the most important is that we have beaten Croatia!” said to me recently - while we were following the European Basketball Championship in Polish Katowice - an enthusiastic friend. The Slovenian team won against Croatia and then lost to Serbia. By winning over Croatia the Slovenians were swept by the wave of enthusiasm and after loosing to Serbia there was no despondency - what can we do, they're simply better? I admit, I know nothing about basketball, I'm not interested in sports, and I find no excitement whatsoever in a crowd of fans drenched in sweat. Besides, despite the fact that I am Slovenian, I don't feel any patriotic feelings towards the state I live in. My life attitudes are strictly liberal, and patriotism and the elevation of any nation is only an expression of dangerous primitivism, which in the past has already caused much harm. And do you still remember disintegration of one funny socialist state? Today we live in peace, but the fact is that our interstate relations are far away from the idyll whereat I find it particularly interesting to see how Slovenians infinitely like to prefer Serbs.

Today, a year ago, journalist Ivo Pukanić, a head of Croatian weekly Nacional, was killed in bomb outrage in Zagreb.