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We are celebrating the country’s 30th anniversary this year.
It is true that these are special times where we have numerous restrictions,

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but if I look at the preparations made by the previous government, which was in power until March, practically nothing was done in

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preparation for the 30th anniversary.

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Our government began working on this immediately.
Even though we are behind the schedule,

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as there is not much time left, June is almost here, I believe
that we will succeed in at least appropriately marking this

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anniversary with a programme that will include the whole
of Slovenia, both at municipal and national levels, as well as

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 in the manner as I said earlier, in some form in schools, either with, off the top of my head, a new issue or with something else. This week,

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the members of the organising committee and the Minister of Education are expected to discuss this. Here is the gap between those

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– who are not few in our society – who still reminisce about
or glorify the former country by praising the socialist system

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and so on, and those who are on the other side so to speak. This gap is still very large, and those who hold us back or throw a spanner in the works

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are those who, including their descendants, have never come to terms with the fact that we have our own country,

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or that we have left the former country.

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This gap is so large that it will probably take another generation to get to the level of countries for which having their own country

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is the biggest national holiday, such as the USA, France, the list goes on and on, In those countries, the people, the citizens have a very different

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attitude to this, to the day, to the date when they celebrate
the formation of their country.