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Slovenia seems to forget about Tito's victims
Slovenia, abolished on May 17th the “National Day of Remembrance of Communist Violence: are some of the victims returning to oblivion?! Among the first effects of this abolition we note a final proposal by the President of Slovenia Nataša Pirc Musar to President Mattarella, so that the “reconciliation process” now includes a visit to the Italian concentration camp on the Dalmatian island of Rab, but on the Italian side this proposal should be balanced with at least two official visits: the first to the Pazin Foiba in Istria and the second to the former Yugoslavian concentration camp of Borovnica in Slovenia. The recent visit of the new President of Slovenia to the...
Appeal of NSKS and SSO for the reconciliation of the Slovenian nation
The Government of the Republic of Slovenia should withdraw the cancellation of the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communist Violence The recent and unexpected decision of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia to cancel the national day of remembrance for the victims of communist violence (17 May) has greatly surprised the public, including among Slovenians abroad. The abolition has further aggravated relations in the political sphere and also among ordinary people. This is not good and goes against the national reconciliation that the Slovenian nation needs. The presidents of the Slovenian top organizations NSKS - Narodni svet...
"We must continue to build a shared historical memory"
The Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, spoke at Palazzo Madama at the celebration of the 'Day of Remembrance', in memory of the victims of the foibe, of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, of the events on the eastern border. Mr. President of the Republic, Honorable President of the Senate, Honorable Vice President of the Chamber, Madam Vice President of the Constitutional Court, Ministers, I would first of all like to thank the representatives of the Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles and of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, for their words today and for their efforts over all these years. The "Day of Remembrance" requires us to...
Joint promotion of tourism in Istria
While the high season is showing positive results, the operators of the four local municipalities are focusing on new brochures and videos Representatives of the tourism sector of the four Istrian municipalities on Slovenian territory met in Maresego and expressed full satisfaction with the progress of the summer season. At the press conference, the cooperation that unites the four locations under the “Love Istria” brand was highlighted and a new brochure and video content were presented. The project “Gourmet treasures of Istria and the sea – Maristra”, which will be presented at Expo Dubai, further unites the local authorities. In the first half of the year, in the municipality of...
Recognition of the Tragedies of the Past and a Shared Future between Italy and Slovenia
A year ago, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella and his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor paused for a minute of silence in front of the Basovizza Foiba. Starting from that symbolic place, Italy and Slovenia began to look no longer at what divides, but at what unites, with particular reference to the deaths and upheavals caused by Tito's communist dictatorship, both in Venezia Giulia and in Slovenia. To seal this sharing, the Mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza, in whose mandates not only the day of July 13, 2020 but also the Concert of the Three Presidents took place, awarded President Pahor the highest...
Slovenian independence also meant the end of a communist dictatorship
The Yugoslav tanks leaving and the flags with the red star being lowered are scenes that bring to mind not only the independence of Slovenia, whose thirtieth anniversary is being celebrated these days, but also the days that the people of Trieste, Gorizia and Polesine lived on 12 June 1945, when the occupation by Tito's partisan forces ended. The events of the eastern border would still have been long before at least Gorizia and Trieste returned to all intents and purposes within the borders of the Italian Republic, while Pola itself, the rest of Istria, Fiume and Zara continued to suffer the persecution of Italianness and the liberticidal grip of the consolidation...
Slovenia and Croatia still fighting over Istria
Wars in the former Yugoslavia, 30 years later: Ljubljana demands a corridor to access international waters, Zagreb does not accept the arbitration ruling Thirty years ago, on June 25, 1991, the decade of wars in Yugoslavia began. Slovenia and Croatia declared themselves independent, but the fascist-communist president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, did not accept the dismemberment of the former dictatorship of Tito, who had died ten years earlier. The conflict with Slovenia was resolved in ten days with a few dozen deaths. The Serbo-Croatian war, on the other hand, lasted four years, involved Bosnia and was extremely bloody: almost one hundred thousand deaths. Finally, in 1999, the Kosovo appendix: to liberate the...
FederEsuli presents the issues of Adriatic Italianness to the Foreign Affairs Commission
A broad overview of the problems of Adriatic Italianity, both with regard to the indigenous presence and with reference to the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles and their descendants: this was presented by the President of the Federation of the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, Prof. Attorney Giuseppe de Vergottini, guest this morning of the Foreign and Community Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. The hearing - preceded by a timely presentation made by the President of the Commission Piero Fassino on the institutional context in which the Federation operates - took place thanks to the interest of the Hon. Vito Comencini, who introduced some of the...
Istria and Dalmatia: a story of immigration
In the 3rd century, Dalmatia was a central region of the Roman Empire. Even an Emperor born on that coast – Diocletian – had promoted the town of Split to a pseudo-capital, building a titanic palace there. But less than a century later, the lands of the eastern Adriatic found themselves becoming a front line. The Goths, first, and the waves of barbarians who followed them depopulated the rich regions of the right bank of the Danube. The border of Italy was marked near Aquileia, and the cities of Istria and Dalmatia became islands of Latinity in a seething sea of barbarian anarchy. The cities of the coast began to gather refugees who...
Ziberna calls for a mixed commission on the Slovenian foibe
In a letter to Conte, Di Maio and Fedriga, the mayor of Gorizia hopes “that the truth may finally be known” The news of the discovery of new sinkholes in Slovenia, containing hundreds of bodies killed by Tito’s troops after the war ended in 1945, including people from Gorizia, are being followed with great interest by the mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna who, for decades, together with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Committee of relatives of deportees to Yugoslavia, has been waging an uninterrupted battle to know the truth about the sinkholes that occurred after the war. “But, above all,” he remarks, “we ask to know the places where many of these...
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