The Slovene Resistance Movement: The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation from 1941 to 1945

Already after the VII Congress of the Comintern in 1935 the Communist Party, in the struggle against fascism, started establishing contacts not only with other labour groups, but also with bourgeois organisations. However, due to the illegality of the Communist Party and because of the 1939 HitlerStalin pact, when the communists denounced the antifascist mottos, the people’s front movement had not yet come to life completely in Slovenia. Only in the time of the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union and after the 5th Party Conference in the autumn of 1940, where a decision was reached to defend Yugoslavia from a possible attack, the communists concluded an action agreement with the Christian Socialist group and the left wing of the Sokoli organisation (a patriotic gymnastic society); namely, with the groups which later cofounded the Liberation Front.