Rebellion against the occupier and workers' rights

 Slovenia still celebrates April 27 as the day of rebellion against the occupier. For some, perhaps even most of the inhabitants of Slovenia, this is a national holiday, which commemorates the day when the Slovenian people began to organize themselves into units to fight against the German and Italian occupiers, as the leading royal political elite at the time gave up. 

For others, although rare, this memory is still alive, as they personally experienced 1941. In any case, the current commemoration of this day is proof that the German Nazi and Italian fascist units were welcomed with enthusiasm by only a few. Some even estimate that only members of the German and Italian minorities, who were also preparing favorable conditions for the occupation, were happy about them. 

Just a few days later, on May 1 to be precise, Slovenia also celebrates Labor Day, or rather the day of workers' rights, or rather the day of hope for all workers for paid work, better working conditions and, of course, better social security in general. 

In Slovenia, these two otherwise separate holidays were very fond of being connected to the May Day holidays or holidays, as the rebellion against the occupiers during and after the Second World War was also associated with the struggle for workers' rights. The entire struggle against the occupier was therefore also presented as a socialist struggle, which therefore brought the Slovenes a one-party socialist political system after the end of World War II, which lasted until independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) in 1991. 

Thus, in Slovenia, due to the ruling political socialist elite, the victors over the occupier forgot, or at least listened to be pushed into oblivion, that immediately after the German and Italian occupation, they also expropriated many Slovenian farmers, craftsmen and also factory owners. Most of them were also deported to concentration camps or other work units or farms. 

As early as 1941, the occupier organized collection centers for so-called Slovenian politically disaffected families, in which they separated husbands from wives and even mothers from children. Their children often ended up in special children's centers. And it was not necessary that they were members of the Communist Party before the occupation. 

And perhaps the occupier managed to inflame the general popular resistance with these very actions, which is still commemorated today on April 27, regardless of socialist political orientation. And, of course, the memory of the first self-organized groups and military units to fight against the occupier is still alive, despite his obvious military superiority.