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A new Renault modus on Congress Square in Ljubljana.
Last night I was at the opening party of the new Renault Modus in the discotheque Global in Ljubljana. If you think unveiling a new car in a disco is slightly odd, you’re not the only one. Particularly when the car being launched wasn’t there. I’m guessing it was logistically impossible to drop a car into Global, especially when the club is a few stories above ground. To compensate they had a wire-framed Modus and what looked like a paper mache version on the balcony:
Le faux Modus.
Renault has a huge market share in Slovenia (around 26%) and has been the best-selling car in the country for several years in a row. It’s also domestically produced. A factory in Novo Mesto makes Clios, and will soon churn out Twingos as well.
Although I didn’t get a chance to inspect the car closely, I did get a chance to see Magnifico perform live. Maybe it was the lighting, but it seems to me that Robert PeÅ¡ut (the lead singer) isn’t aging. He’s like Dorian Gray: old in his photos, and in the flesh looks like he’s about 15. (He’ll be turning forty next year.) Besides this mysterious fact, I have no complaints about the music.
Magnifico performing in Ljubljana.
My favorite Magnifico moment: After overhearing a girl say Magnifico je peder (Magnifico is a faggot), he writes a wonderful song with that line as the chorus. Brilliant.
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ORF.at checked it out:
www.orf.at/040929-78967/index.html [Austrian]
SLOVENIA - A DORIAN GRAY?
Since today is a voting day in Slovenia, let`s say something about the Slovenian politics.
The people who control everything in Slovenia vote for LDS (reformed League of Socialist Youth), or ZLSD (reformed communists). They are members or associate with KuÄ?an`s Forum 21 or/and the ruling LDS.
See: Mladina Forum 21, on Google (Kdo vozi forum 21).
These people retained the power they had had in the “ancien regime”. After 1991 they changed their jargon. The key words of Yugoslavian communism: Marxism, socialism with human face, brotherhood and unity, solidarity, peaceful coexistance, Yugoslavia, non-alignment… were replaced with new ones: democracy, human rights, tolerance, market economy, Europe, globalization… The new words sound equally hollow as the old ones, repeated again and again by the same people.
Communism in Slovenia was evil. Yet, it was never condemned in the Slovenian parliament. Milan KuÄ?an, the key figure of the Slovenian politics in the last 20 years has never condemned communism or regretted hid own past words or deeds.
KuÄ?an`s career began in early 70s when he was a young aparatchik. From that time his words about our teachers as “soldiers of Revolution” are famous. First he was Popit`s, later Dolanc`s protege, both “hard-liners”.
(Dolanc was the head of UDBA, he was known as the ruthless “fist of socialism”. He did a lot of ugly things.
“In Yugoslavia, cooperation between the secret service (SDB, former UDBA) and criminals had been standard practice by 1970s. According to one of the officials, over 150 criminals worked for the Federal Ministry of Interior during that time. Most of them were employed as assassins and allegedly murdered over 60 Yugoslave emigres residing predominantly in Western Europe. In 1981, one of these assassins was caught in West Germany and convicted for murdering an emigre. A number of others were wanted by Interpol on similar charges, but, enjoying the protection of some of the top Yugoslave officials, the question of their extradiction was never raised. Željko Ražnjatoveć Arkan, one of the most notorious criminals working for SDB, was under the personal patronage of Stane Dolanc, Federal Minister of Interior and later member of the Federal Presidency. Dolanc allegedly said that one Arkan is worth more than the whole of the SDB. Not surprisingly, when Arkan was arrested in 1981 in Switzerland, SDB organized his escape from the Lugano prison.”
See: Stane Dolanc Partners in Crime (on Google)
3.1. Serbia, page 42
KuÄ?an became the president of Slovenian communists in 1980s. About at the time of the fall of the Berlin wall he turned a “democrat”. He was elected for president two times and became “our beloved leader”.
His main concern was and is that “history be not revised” and the privileges of the former communist nomenclatura remain untouched.
So Slovenia fell into collective amnesia.
(Of course the bright traditions of the glorious communist past are being maintained and KuÄ?an doesn`t miss any of their celebrations.)
Nobody disturbs the old still living revolutionaries (many of them with bloody hands, Mitja RibiÄ?iÄ? for instance, or Zdenka KidriÄ?…) with embarrassing questions. They enjoy in peace their exceptionally high pensions - for their “merits in building socialism”. KuÄ?an`s own chief adviser (in his presidential time) was Zdenko Roter, an OZNA interrogator, notorious for his sadism (he was specialised in interrogating priests).
Now the beloved ex-President wants to be an authoroty in ETHICS!
See:
www.editorsweblog.org/2004/09open_letter_to_html
(sept. 17)
The letter to the future USA president( Bush or Kerry) is here:
www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=1822
The world we live in is strange.
Andreja
You can read about the soldier of Revolution Mitja RibiÄ?iÄ?, on Google:
Portrait of a Political Policeman
Andreja