I get those 2 countries mixed up. Former soviet countries, right?
Slovenia was a constituent republic of Yugoslavia.
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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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Slovenia is a tiny country that was part of Yugoslavia. It is in the Alps just under Austria tucked in northeast of Italy. It was the first former Yugoslavia to break away. There was a mini war that lasted for a week or so in 1991, and then they were left alone.
I was stationed in Italy at the time, and we watched it happen live, with growing concern about what would happen in the rest of that country.
What happened later in Croatia and Bosnia was so much worse. We all hoped it would be like Slovenia, but the three types of peoples—Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslim Bosnians, were too mixed up together, and had too much hatred for each other.
Slovenia got out easy because they were a homogenous people.