We are celebrating the country’s 30th anniversary this year. It is true that these are special times where we have numerous restrictions,
but if I look at the preparations made by the previous government, which was in power until March, practically nothing was done in
preparation for the 30th anniversary.
Our government began working on this immediately. Even though we are behind the schedule,
as there is not much time left, June is almost here, I believe that we will succeed in at least appropriately marking this
anniversary with a programme that will include the whole of Slovenia, both at municipal and national levels, as well as
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,
the members of the organising committee and the Minister of Education are expected to discuss this. Here is the gap between those
– who are not few in our society – who still reminisce about or glorify the former country by praising the socialist system
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
are those who, including their descendants, have never come to terms with the fact that we have our own country,
or that we have left the former country.
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
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
attitude to this, to the day, to the date when they celebrate the formation of their country.