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- Title
SLOVENSKA POLITIČNA EMIGRACIJA SKOZI OČI SLUŽBE DRŽAVNE VARNOSTI V ŠESTDESETIH LETIH.
- Authors
FRIŠ, Darko; JENUŠ, Gregor; ŠELA, Ana
- Abstract
The State Security Service (SDV), or prior to 1967, the State Security Administration (UDV), which is known in history as the Slovenian secret political police, maintained constant control over Slovenian, particularly political emigration - which was divided into moderate, loyal, and extreme. According to the Slovenian secret political police the political emigrants were classified into several heterogeneous groups with different ideological platforms, which were supposed to be strongly opposed to each other. They were allegedly united, however, by a common hate for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which aided the rise of radical nationalism, separatism, and anti-communism. In the paper, the authors present "hostile" or dangerous organizations of Slovene political emigration to the Yugoslav authorities, explain the methods of monitoring emigrants in the West, and their activities, which were expressed through Yugoslavia's "hostile" propaganda press through the eyes of the Slovene political police based on mostly unpublished archival material kept by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia within the fond of the Republic Secretariat for Internal Affairs (AS RSNZ). The authors focus on the turbulent 1960s, when the number of emigrants increased, and because of the sharper schism between the Eastern and Western blocs, as well as the rise of anti-communist ideas in the West, they increasingly voiced ideas after the change of Slovenia's Yugoslav one-party political system. The tasks and goals set by the Slovene political police regarding political emigration included the preventive cessation of extreme "hostile" actions, the infiltration of employees into Slovenian political emigration organizations and associations to obtain information, and operational actions to stop various emigration activities directed against Yugoslavia. Slovene political emigration thus arose and developed its identity alongside existence of an "external enemy" in the form of the Yugoslav political regime.
- Subjects
YUGOSLAVIA; SLOVENIA; SECRET police; POLITICAL organizations; UNPUBLISHED materials; ARCHIVAL materials; POLITICAL systems; SMOKING cessation; HISTORY of archives; ANTI-communist movements
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 4, p1073
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2021.42