1975 Zaliv Scandal

June 2020 The 1975 Zaliv Scandal was a political scandal in SFR Yugoslavia that began when the summary killing of 12,000 Slovene Home Guard war prisoners by the Yugoslav Communist regime, which occurred in May and June 1945, was publicly discussed and condemned for the first time after World War II in 1975. The scandal The scandal followed after the killings were condemned by Edvard Kocbek in an interview that appeared as a special edition of the journal Zaliv; it was written by two Slovene writers from Trieste, Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, and published in Italy. The interview was titled Edvard Kocbek: pričevalec našega časa (Edvard Kocbek: Witness to Our Time) and served as a pretext to launch a massive denigration campaign against Kocbek by the state-controlled Yugoslav media. Kocbek, who lived in Yugoslavia, was put under constant secret service surveillance until his death in 1981. The international pressure on Yugoslavia, especially the intervention of the German writer Heinrich Böll, was probably the main element that protected Kocbek from judicial prosecution.Detela, L., & Kersche, P. 2004. Kocbek Edvard: Literatur und Engagement https://web.archive.org/web/20120212233106/http://www.kitab-verlag.com/webshop/fremdsprachige-literatur/kocbek-edvard-literatur-und-engagement.html 2012-02-12 . Vienna: Kitab. Boris Pahor and Alojz Rebula, who interviewed Kocbek, were banned from entering Yugoslavia for several years and were only able to enter it to attend Kocbek's funeral. References Category:1975 in Yugoslavia Category:Political scandals in Yugoslavia Category:Political repression in Communist Yugoslavia Category:Political history of Slovenia Category:Slovenia in World War II Category:Interviews Category:Extrajudicial killings in World War II Category:Historiography of World War II Category:Prisoner-of-war massacres committed by the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II Category:Massacres in 1945