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All this hatred, these unresolved conflicts reignite after the referendum. Now it is the German and right-wing citizens who divide the country and the Slovenian ethnic group. One divides them: into the “Windische”, who voted well for Austria and yet are not really a real Slovenia, and the traitors who are not fellow citizens but “enemies of the people”.
All of this is nationalist music accompanying a constant erosion of minority rights of Slovenes, and this continues even after the terror of the Nazi dictatorship against the Carinthian Slovenes in the Second Republic. As early as 1918, the Carinthian regional assembly had promised Slovenes to protect their rights. The Second Republic again committed to this in the State Treaty.
A promise that Slovenians in Carinthia will be angry to this day, if many of their rights are cheated for decades. “If there is a central trauma for the Slovenians of Carinthia,” says Valentin Inzko, a senior diplomat and one of the most influential representatives of his ethnic group, “then it is the promises that have been made over and over again and then broken” .
