ABSTRACT
Yugoslavia, or the country officially called the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, has fallen into oblivion. The state was composed of six republics and two autonomous provinces, with six different nations, five national languages, and many national minority languages. It was a country with two official alphabets and at least three world religions. The international community considered it a state of multicultural tolerance, while within its borders it was the homeland of people who were fictitiously related, a homeland of brotherhood and unity. However, in june 1991, intervention by the Yugoslav Army within national borders put an end to the previous joint life. June 1991 brought about the collision of two irrational decisions. The first was the decision made by the Yugoslav Army to use classic military intervention to bring the insubordinate inhabitants of Slovenia under control, which also meant intervention against the very people the army was to protect. The other was the decision made by Slovenia’s political leaders and Slovenia’s citizens to use any means to defy a militarily superior force which was still officially the armed force of the Slovenian people.
