Abstract
The politics of democratization in the early 1950’s contributed to the revival of nationalism and republicanism in Slovenia. Employees of the state economic apparatus, creative intelligentsia and journalists began to make statements and actions that put Slovenian interests and problems in the first place in comparison with those of the general Yugoslavia. Many of them explained the socioeconomic problems of Slovenia by the fact that it was the cash cow of Yugoslavia. Opinion about the cultural superiority of the Slovenes and the desire to distance themselves from Yugoslavia revived. The Slovenian party leadership failed to cope with the suppression of these tendencies, which caused repeated criticism from Belgrade.
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