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If we were to judge by the names of world-famous Slovenians today, it seems that this former Yugoslav republic has nothing to regret. Slovenians have one of the most famous sociologists in the world, the leftist Slavoj Žižek. They have the first man of UEFA, a lawyer from Ljubljana Aleksandar Čeferin, one of the best basketball players in the world - Luka Dončić. Until recently, they had the first lady of America, Melania Trump. Nevertheless, 30 years after independence, what is the attitude of Slovenians towards Yugoslavia? Alternative history is very popular today, and it starts from a very simple question that historians don't really like - what if it was different? Where would Slovenia be today if it didn't have Yugoslavia? Where would the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, the Austrian, Peter Handke, be today if his grandfather, a Carinthian Slovene, had been in the majority in the famous Carinthian plebiscite in 1920? What would have happened to Slovenia if it had not become part of the Kingdom of the Slovak Republic, would Slovenia have received the sea in 1947 if it had not been part of socialist Yugoslavia, was that country made according to the Slovenians - as Milan Kučan said, did the Slovenians give a lot of money in funds for the underdeveloped, did they gain or lose more in Yugoslavia, was the idea of independence born in the 80s or did Slovenians dream of their own state for a whole century? Finally, would there be an independent Slovenia today if there was no Yugoslavia and does the average Slovenian today have the mentality of a person from Central Europe or the Balkans? Speaking for Oko magazine: Božo Repe, historian, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana, Božidar Jezernik, ethnologist, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana, economist Jože Mencinger, poet Boris A. Novak and writer Goran Vojnović. Author: Stevan Kostić Label and copyright: RTS Any copying of video and/or audio recordings and uploading to other channels is prohibited!