»I call a toast to the brotherhood and unity of our nations«

Abstract

After the end of the Second World War, the communist authorities in the new Yugoslavia maintained that they had resolved the national issue once and for all. Naturally, this was far from the truth, as old grudges and differences between cultures cannot be done away with simply by changing the political system and reorganising the state. The following article discusses the expressions of nationalist intolerance in the upper Gorenjska region, according to records preserved in the form of documents stored in the archival funds of the Judge for Minor Offences in Radovljica and the Regional Court of Radovljica. Due to its high concentration of industry, e.g. the Jesenice ironworks, the Gorenjska region was one of the main target areas of »migrant« workers from the southern republics of Yugoslavia, who brought with them their own culture and habits, which often led to conflict situations between these workers and the domestic inhabitants.