Excellent! Thanks for shareing this!

     by Katja on October 19, 2005 at 6:56 am

I have heard unsubstantiated rumors that one can buy slovenian wine
from the priest at the New York church. Supposedly priests are allowed
to import some wine for the services or whatnot. I cannot confirm these
rumors. And I  will not reveal the source, even if I have to spend 85 days in jail!

     by crni on October 19, 2005 at 7:15 am

yesterday night on SLO 1, there was a great documentary on slovenes
(slovenian women, to be more precise) living in the states. the title
is "americanke" and it was directed by hanna a.w. slak. potica, slovenian
songs sang with english accent and american-slovenian patriotism -
something different! the documentary will be repeated on SLO 1 on friday at 14.05.

     by zk on October 19, 2005 at 9:40 am

Michael,  Thanks for this new link.   Sounds promising without threatening to be an organizing site for incendiary  & revolutionary types.  You remember, possibly, how things were in NYC during the late 1970’s and 1980’s with the Croats?  Not a happy scene.

     by DarkoV on October 19, 2005 at 2:27 pm

DarkoV, what was going on in the 70s and 80s with the Croats?

     by brian on October 19, 2005 at 2:38 pm

Brian,This site,( http://www.pavelicpapers.com/documents/odpor/ ) , will give you an idea.  Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, & Bosnia & Hercegovina were all still part of Yugoslavia at that time.  The Croats were probably the most "active" in trying to dissolve that multi-ethnic relationship.  Some Croats living outside of Yugoslavia, specifically in USA, Canada, and Australia organized themselves into what law enforcement officials termed "terrorist’s groups".A Catholic church,  Church of St Cyril & Methodius, just off of Times Square,  (see http://www.newyorkcity.com/yellow_page/Croatian_Church_of_St_Cyril__Methodius.64413396/editorial.aspx ) was used as a meeting place for "discussions and planning".  It got so nasty, the church was boarded up and closed for a while.As an example of some of the actions of these groups, Zvonko Busic, his wife and some other Croats hijacked a plane flying out of LaGuardia (see http://www.nypd2.org/nyclink/nypd/html/ctb/history.html ).It was not a pleasant time to be an American of Croatian birth, who had no interest in any violent overthrow.   Luckily, the main organizers were arrested or they disappeared, so life returned to normalcy again, namely, back to the times when most Americans didn’t know who or what a Croatian was.Hope this helps!

     by DarkoV on October 19, 2005 at 4:06 pm

wow, i’ve never heard anything about that! there’s a Slavs of New York post about that croatian church here: http://nycslav.blogspot.com/2005/08/manhattans-croats.htmlthanks for the info!!

     by brian on October 19, 2005 at 5:11 pm

Brian,During the late 70’s, early ’80’s one of the Croatian terrorist groups had the dubious honor of being #1 on the FBI group wanted list.  Not a good time for travelling back and forth from the States to Croatia at that time.

     by DarkoV on October 19, 2005 at 6:47 pm

Darko: Thanks for the info. I also had no idea. The only
thing I knew about Croatian terrorist attacks was that a group bombed
JAT Flight 364, and I only knew that because that was the flight where Vesna Vulović secured the most terrifying world record of all: surviving the highest fall without a parachute.zk: Thanks for the heads up — I’ll definitely watch it! 

     by Michael M. on October 19, 2005 at 7:37 pm

There’s a bit of folklore connected to that, that Vesna Vulovic was the subject of a glorifying folk song, "Vesna stuardesa." But I’ve neither heard the song nor found the lyrics anywhere.

     by Eric on October 19, 2005 at 9:32 pm

thanks, DarkoV…i followed up on the info you passed on: http://nycslav.blogspot.com/2005/11/croatian-terroristsin-new-york.html

     by bp on November 14, 2005 at 1:36 pm

hy im from slovenia, from kranj-city! if you want to know a little obout slovenia you can ask me! by by

     by luka on December 13, 2006 at 9:59 pm