In her bachelor’s thesis, the author presents the community of Slovenes, who went to Argentina after the Second World War. Firstly, she describes all three Slovene migrations, and then follows the difficult path of the so-called Argentine Slovenes, who after the Second world war, due to the threats of the communist regime, withdrew to camps in Austria and Italy, and later immigrated to Argentina. Even so, as the author describes, they did not lose courage and immediately organized a diverse cultural and religious life, they also established Slovenian schools and began to print Slovenian newspapers and books. In Argentina they immediately continued their work, and especially began to dedicate themselves to the preservation of Sloveneness, because they realized that they will not be able to come back to their homeland. The author focuses on the »myth of martyrdom and return«, as it was a recurring theme in their lives, as martyrdom strongly marked them, but linked by the initial hope of a return, which was slowly fading. All that remains is the memory of martyrdom, which still is the central theme of their cultural events. After the independence of Slovenia, however, a different »return« began to take place, when Argentine Slovenes started moving to their parents homeland, which we can no longer say, that they have returned, since they never lived here. The author specifically explains the word myth, which at first severely affected her Argentina interlocutors, as they imagined that it nullified the reality of their suffering. Because of that, she felt the need to say, what the myth really means and how the word fits in with the reality that Argentine Slovenes have experienced and (to this day) survived.
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