I served on a deployment with the US Army in Slovenia a few years ago and they seemed to love their Independence. In fact, I met the President of Slovenia while training their troops how to fight. Great people, great country. This is just a communist bias writer.
But these are the civilians not the army. They prefer a different more cultural and easy going lifestyle than the regimented, obedient type of army men.
The Slovene military kicked Yugoslav (read Serbian) butt in 1991 when the latter tried to reimpose rule by Belgrade. The Slovene Republic soon became the most prosperous and proudly independent of all the former `republics’ of the former Franken-slavia state.
I heard the same communist nostalgia cr@p in Uzbekistan when deployed there 2003-04. From the young people with no adult memories of the USSR. “It’s all about money now” carped one young Uzbek woman to me as she proclaimed her admiration for Stalin!
This piece is worthless. Slovenes are for liberty!
(full disclosure- my grandfather was Slovenian. Must be in my blood.)