Today is the "Dan državnosti". It means the day of statehood. On 26 June 1991, Slovenia declared the independence from Yugoslavia. The next day, the ten-days war happened. As a result, Slovenia won the war and got independence on 8 July.
Since Josip Broz Tito dead in 1980, ethnic unity, political and economic policy had undermined. Then nationalism movement occurred in many places. Especially, it is important that the conflict between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, which locates in the southern Serbia. At that time, Kosovo was a part of Serbia. In Kosovo, however, many Albanians lived and demanded autonomy from Serbia. Slobodan Mirošević, who was Serbian president, rejected their demand. Croatia, Slovenia, and Kosovo strongly opposed Serbian policy. Then Slovenia began to seek their way and reached the conclusion of independence.
Comapre to other constituted republics of Yugoslavia, Slovenia is homogeneous and economically developed country. Further, there were few people who supported Serbian policy and border is far away from Serbia. Therefore, the war did not prolong in Slovenia.
When I read topics about the process of breaking up of Yugoslavia, I focused to Croatian and Bosnian cases. But it is also important to understand Slovenian cases to more understand the situation of Yugoslavia. I should look not only small picture, but also big picture..I always think that...
Anyway, the last night was eve of Dan državnosti. I watched fire works which were set off in Ljubljana castle. I did not expect that I could watch fire works during the summer vacation, in Slovenia! I remembered the summer in Japan.
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