Soon yet another book on communist icon Josip Broz Tito shall be published in Slovenia; the book "Tito, mystery of the century", written by Pero Simić, shall be published by publisher Orbis. I just happen to be well acquainted with this matter, as the publisher is also my publisher, and if you wonder why my fourth book still awaits its publication – well, because obviously this book on Tito had to be published first. Well, the first issue of this book was printed at the end of May 2009 in Belgrade in 15.000 copies. It was sold out within ten days. The book experienced similar success in Croatia, where nearly after two weeks the book Tito was printed in second edition.

 

 

Not long ago Mura's workers moaned in Ljubljana and went on strike. A little bit here, a little bit there. Just in right amount to place themselves in front of journalists' film cameras and photo-cameras. Even if I scrape whole compassion within me, that I can afford, you will probably agree that it wouldn't do much good? Of course, when night fell they were stars. They were in all news. Until bigger stars stole the limelight from them. Until figures of holy cows stole the limelight from them. Who is a holy cow? Untouchable person. Someone, who could, as once one of artful young economists expressed himself, on Prešeren square, in the city centre, rape six young boys one after another and still everyone would say – wow! The image of the holy cow is staunch. Whatever holy cow does or declares, publically, it is simply – wow. Holy. Almost no one checks it, because it goes without saying that it is a holy truth.

 

My column in Croatian Poslovni dnevnik (Business Daily): Larger tribe shall occupy the territory of a smaller one

Drnovšek's government gave up administration over the territory on southern bank of Dragonja River, to wit it voluntarily gave up a part of Slovenian territory and literally donated it to Croatia

Once upon a time two tribes lived. One was larger, and the other smaller. One day the chief of a larger tribe came to the chief of a smaller tribe and said: "You produced lots of food this year, give us a little bit!" Little chief thought it over and responded: "It's true, fine, we'll give you some food." When the larger tribe received food, their chief once again came to the neighbour and said: "Your women are very beautiful! Give us your most beautiful!" Little chief thought it over, picked out the most beautiful woman and gave it to the neighbouring tribe. Yet this obviously wasn't enough as the big chief once again came to the little chief and said: "Good; and now give us also your land!" Well now the little chief withstands and says: "Well, we can't give you our land; for if we give you our land, we will have no place to live!" So what happened? The larger tribe came, killed the smaller tribe and took over their territory - admit it, since prehistory and until today the human nature didn't change much, did it?

 

Word Mura is recently often heard in Slovenian media space. Of course not the Mura, so peacefully running and sometimes flooding surrounding banks. The subject under discussion is Mura, the company biding farewell; and Prekmurje, already the most impoverished part of our indolent country, is flooded by troops of new unemployed human destinies. It happens. Recession. But you know; there's something I really don't understand? 

 

 

Well, finally Ljubljana got Tito Street, so awfully desired by eternal left-wing authority in our capital and in state in general. To wit despite the fact that people surviving the second world war and out-of-court post-war slaughters - which in Slovenia have happened on such mass scale, that I may safely put down, that our country rests on one single immense graveyard - are still alive and that wounds are still open and painful. But this doesn't seem to trouble communists’ posterity, who are in no way able to face the truth and reconcile them to the fact, that Josip Broz Tito was no hero at all, but merely pre-war, interwar and post-war criminal; in fine, does a man of this kind deserve a street to be named after him? To wit in 21st century when we are keen to talk about how opposed we are to totalitarianisms.