Thursday 2 May 2013

Don't Mention The War ... Slovenia & Germany

It would be a bit tactless for a visitor to mention the War, but the locals in Slovenia still fixate on which side their families lined up with - red or white.  Here's a red memorial, commemorating the liberation of Capodistria - the town of Koper, Slovenia's only port - from the 'Nazifascista locale', as late as April '45.

Koper is just around the coast from Trieste, and the people of the area are bilingual:  you probably won't need a translation engine for this.

Fast-forward to 2013, and Koper once again has a German connection, and an equivocal one at that.  The Slovenian economy is on the brink and German banks have been to the fore in lending to keep them afloat.

Only now they want collateral, and guess what ?  They've taken the port at Koper as security.


Port of Koper




What goes around, comes around.  Good luck to them at bail-out time.

ND


9 comments:

Blue Eyes said...

Interesting part of the world!

I'm reading a fascinating novel set partly during the war, starring Alan Turing et al. So much turned on so little.

Bill Quango MP said...

Our meddling during WW2 in Yugoslavia and Greece had particularly bad consequences for those nations.

'Set Europe ablaze' certainly did that. But in the southern med it killed hundreds of thousands for little, if any, really useful purpose.

Anonymous said...

If the price of Koper is falling, that's negative for EMED.

Laban

Anonymous said...

I have read about the German retreat/evacuation from Yugoslavia at the end of the war and it wasn't pretty.The reds took revenge very seriously and some of the atrocities visited upon German troops (and their local allies)matched anything the Germans and Italians had got up to.

I'm always surprised they went back.

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