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The SD uses a mixture of blaming the former government for each and every problem that shows up during their mandate, ruthlessness (for instance, the party accused a politician who withdrew from SD of internet [[piracy]] and downloading [[pedophilia|child porn]]) and using their [[Marxism|Marxist]] followers to attack SDS members over a variety of out-of-date affairs and to make ridiculous allegations about Janša being a threat to the state, a criminal, a [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]], and so on, in attempt to keep their support up. | The SD uses a mixture of blaming the former government for each and every problem that shows up during their mandate, ruthlessness (for instance, the party accused a politician who withdrew from SD of internet [[piracy]] and downloading [[pedophilia|child porn]]) and using their [[Marxism|Marxist]] followers to attack SDS members over a variety of out-of-date affairs and to make ridiculous allegations about Janša being a threat to the state, a criminal, a [[totalitarianism|totalitarian]], and so on, in attempt to keep their support up. | ||
| − | The SDS, on the other hand, histerically opposes to every single action of coalition - for instance, they make anti-reform propaganda, they opposed putting [[partisan]] portrait on 1€ coins, and so on. They use affairs of coalition members as support-rising tool, too, but | + | The SDS, on the other hand, histerically opposes to every single action of coalition - for instance, they make anti-reform propaganda, they opposed putting [[partisan]] portrait on 1€ coins, and so on. They use affairs of coalition members as support-rising tool, too, but the affairs they're using are actually current. |
== Religion == | == Religion == | ||
Revision as of 09:42, 29 May 2011
Slovenia is a small Central European country and a member of the European Union. It used to be a part of Yugoslavia before gaining independence in 1991.
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History
Pre-independence and early independence
The 1992 murder of Ivan Kramberger is an interesting study in how politics works in Slovenia. Kramberger was a humanitarian who donated dialysis machines to hospitals and shared his money with the poor. He won 20% of the vote in the first Slovenian presidental elections.[1]
Officialy, he was killed by a drunk, who shot him from 63 meters away with a hunting rifle, hitting Kramberger directly in the heart during one of his pre-election rallys. The murderer was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but was released in 2001. Most Sloveinans think that official story is bullshit and blame former Yugoslav communist elites for the assassination.[2][3][4]
Political situation
Currently, there are two major political parties in Slovenia: the Social Democrats (SD, Socialni Demokrati, led by Borut Pahor) - the current governing party, that is largely made up of former Yugoslav communist party officials and their offspring - and the Slovene Democratic Party (SDS, Slovenska Demokratska Stranka) led by Janez Janša - the ex-governing party and current opposition party.
The SD uses a mixture of blaming the former government for each and every problem that shows up during their mandate, ruthlessness (for instance, the party accused a politician who withdrew from SD of internet piracy and downloading child porn) and using their Marxist followers to attack SDS members over a variety of out-of-date affairs and to make ridiculous allegations about Janša being a threat to the state, a criminal, a totalitarian, and so on, in attempt to keep their support up.
The SDS, on the other hand, histerically opposes to every single action of coalition - for instance, they make anti-reform propaganda, they opposed putting partisan portrait on 1€ coins, and so on. They use affairs of coalition members as support-rising tool, too, but the affairs they're using are actually current.
Religion
Atheists Men Against Church
The major religion of Slovenia is Roman Catholicism, although the number of Catholics is persistently falling. Since Slovenia has heavy communist roots, there are many so-called atheists that don't actually disbelieve in God, but just hate Church. Currently, the Marxist inquisition (before-mentioned "atheists") is pointed towards allegations about pedophile priests, Church's violent history, and Church's collaboration with nazi occupators, where they completely let out the fact that collaborator priests saved Slovenians from execution.[5]
Anti-Gay Rights Activists Family and Children's Rights Supporters
Family Code, a set of laws that would legalize same-sex marriage and gay adoption, is being considered in Slovenia. The opposers of Family Code mask their anti-gay activitsm simply as support of "family values" and "children's rights". The main force of these "family supporters" is centralized in Civil Iniciative for Family and Children's Rights.[6] Most of Iniciative members are (surprise surprise!) christians. The Iniciative is also supported by pretty much whole Slovene Catholic community.
Other religions
Slovenia is also home to 50.000 Muslims, some of whom are fundamentalists who strive to both Slovenian theists and atheists. They enjoy leftist support.