Today Slovenia is celebrating the Resistance Day or the Day of Uprising against Occupation during the Second World War.
For many of us could be a divisional day, but allover some proud and courage guys, during the spring of 1941 decided to revolt against mainly the German and Italian forces which practically, after the invasion, made a partition and annexation of Slovenia with limitation to Slovenian tradition and language.
There was a meeting in the house of writer Josip Vidmar in Ljubljana in the evening of 26 April 1941, it was established a Liberation Front (OF) , the seed of the Slovene Partisans, who battled first as guerrilla force and becoming after a really well organized armed forced with whole brigades and army able to free all the Slovenian territory.
There was absolutely no bed of roses and even fighting very brave the occupation forces, a lot of wrong doing was in the middle. There was also a civilian war between Slovenians and many not guilty person died without a valid reason or a valid prosecution just for having different opinions about post-war Slovenian system, a religious credo etc....
Nevertheless, the 27 April 1941 is still a day to celebrate for the dark moments in which the Slovenian culture, language and history has been pushed at the time and the whole nation was really in dangerous. Could be called a Liberation Day ? Absolutely no, because there was not a clear liberation and freedom, which was a general Slovenian dream after winning the war, but instead a new uni party system has been established after the 1945, the Tito´s Communism, with positive outcome for member of Communist party and negative impact on other part of Slovenian society.
For sure Slovenia had to wait and fight for real Independence from Yugoslavia uni party system other 46 year till 1991, but this is another story and even today part of Independence has been shared or delegated to Bruxelles EU and NATO policy.
But....................... our history is made by milestones and the Day of Uprising was for sure one of the important ones.