Correct. It upsets me they constantly repeat that, when Slovenia, then par of the Yugoslavia, never experienced communism. It was always socialism and It's a difference
We never had communism in Slovenia, but self-governing socialism. By the time Melania was growing up in the late 80s, however, this system no longer existed either. So I don't understand what the presenter is even talking about?
I visited the bronze statue of Melania Trump near the Sava River in Sevnica, Slovenia, and was pleasantly surprised to see tourists there, taking pictures of it. The Melania cake is still being sold at the Julija pastry shop in Sevnica. 🥮
@@elizabethwilk9615 Slovenians do not have to immigrate because Slovenia is part of the EU, otherwise the country is beautiful, clean, with beautiful nature, good cuisine and everything in abundance,
@ we were talking about the former Yugoslavia yet Slovenia for her was not enough since salaries and opportunities were limited. I do agree that Slovenia is lovely.
Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia was socialist not communist... big difference! It was totally opend to the wast people where not repressed and could travel everywhere in the world, and all imported western products where available ever since. Including music! Fashion and pop culture where big in Yugoslavia... I wonder why she doesn't correct him even once when he uses the term "communist Slovenia' feels like they are talking about the soviet union...strange. 😂😂😂
This reporter should have learnt a bit more about the history of Slovenia which was than part of Jugoslavia. It was the most open country from that region and part of some countries that were neither alligned with the US or the Soviet Union. Altough as a Hungarian I dont like Tito but many people still remember him as a good leader in former Jugoslav countries. They were much richer and freer compared to other Central-Eastern European countries. Opression has different forms. And Slovenia was very lucky that they did not participate long in the Balkans war.
I'm sure Americans would like to see socialist Yugoslavia as being this oppressed, dark country where you wouldn't dare whisper anything about the regime, where people lived in moldy apartments and ate potatoes day after day, and where everyone was poor, completely shut off from the rest of the world. This would fit well into the idea of the US being the superior, rich, democractic power and therefore better than everyone else. In reality, Yugoslavia, especially in the 1980s, was a very open, free society, where people were allowed to travel anywhere they wanted, no one got imprisoned for speaking out, and the cultural scene was very rich. It was not governed by Russia and was not "behind the iron curtain". Ironically, countries like Poland and Hungary were very foreign to us and we travelled there to see how "people lived under communism" :-) In Slovenia, which was the richest and most advanced of the Yugoslav republics, people were building houses, everyone had enough to live, we always learned English in schools (never Russian), we watched American films and shows, and the stores were always full. However, Yugoslavia as an idea was not sustainable because it was an artificial formation of historically and culturally very different nations (e.g. Slovenians and Serbians don't actually have that much in common) but while it lasted, kudos to Tito (he was a dictator and a criminal in some ways, but a genius politician and strategist in others, and was beloved by his nation), it was a great place to grow up in. Unfortunately, Melania, having sold herself to a marriage with an imbecile, is not the best representative of Slovenians, and we are not really proud of calling her our compatriot.
My dear fellow ex countryman, thanks for your comments. The presenter is so annoying with his stereotypical outdated questions about Eastern European life. Like, he is going to find out how people of ex Yugoslavia were oppressed, tortureed, and suffered under communist dictatorship!!! I wish Melania is more vocal and more explicit in educating him about our mostly happy, carefree, secure lifestyle. Lifestyle without worrying about losing jobs and lifestyle with superb charge free health care and totally free educational system from nursery school to PhD. Come on, dear interviewer!!! Educate, prepare, and inform yourself about certain topics before you start questioning guests with the wrong questions. One thing is for sure, perhaps not for Melania as she married well, that 99% of Yugoslavians would go back to the old ways in the heartbeat. Particularly us who have seen both sides of the world!!!! "Democracy" is actually not as it seems to be what we thought about it once upon a time !!! Life in Yugoslavia was too good to be true, so that is why it didn't last. Trust me !!!! I wish I was at Melania's place to speak up loudly and proudly of being Yougolavian !!!! Those were the days !!!! Happy days !!!!!
You should learn more about Slovenia,Slovenian history. Slovenia and many other nearby countries were not under communism. There were people who were communists,but communism was not leading the country.
No Slovenia is correct. E as in Elephant. Born there. You English always must change names just because you're lazy and daft to learn a person's/country's name 😅
And she worked 4x with a tourist/visitor’s visa. There was a NYC fashion week with models put on my Paolo Zampolli and the rest is history. Paolo worked for Trump in NYC real estate. I’m sure Melanja has absolutely no interest in the Trump family sixty year association with Roy Cohn. I believe she got what she wanted that week in 98, a rich husband and a way for her late parents to chain migrate to USA.
@@elizabethwilk9615 So what?? So Melania broke the law four times. For most people - they get deported for one offence. She has 400% and still got the Einstein Category and parents fast tracked through chain migration. It’s egregious cheating and not waiting in line like everyone else done because her boyfriend paid for all the lawyer. Stupid question of So what from who a hypocrite who likes trump? SMH. Crooked cheaters from way back
Yugoslavia was socialist, not communist.
Correct. It upsets me they constantly repeat that, when Slovenia, then par of the Yugoslavia, never experienced communism. It was always socialism and It's a difference
I was born in Croatia , part of ex Yugoslavia. I grew up in socialism not in communism
We never had communism in Slovenia, but self-governing socialism. By the time Melania was growing up in the late 80s, however, this system no longer existed either. So I don't understand what the presenter is even talking about?
I visited the bronze statue of Melania Trump near the Sava River in Sevnica, Slovenia, and was pleasantly surprised to see tourists there, taking pictures of it. The Melania cake is still being sold at the Julija pastry shop in Sevnica. 🥮
Both Melania and I lived in Slovenia under socialism at the time, communism was only part of politics...and we were happy..‼️‼️
@@Popolonovinov that’s why so many young people immigrated to Germany, Austria, South America, USA etc. please
@@elizabethwilk9615 Slovenians do not have to immigrate because Slovenia is part of the EU, otherwise the country is beautiful, clean, with beautiful nature, good cuisine and everything in abundance,
@ we were talking about the former Yugoslavia yet Slovenia for her was not enough since salaries and opportunities were limited. I do agree that Slovenia is lovely.
@@elizabethwilk9615 thank you, welcome 🍀
Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia was socialist not communist... big difference! It was totally opend to the wast people where not repressed and could travel everywhere in the world, and all imported western products where available ever since. Including music! Fashion and pop culture where big in Yugoslavia... I wonder why she doesn't correct him even once when he uses the term "communist Slovenia' feels like they are talking about the soviet union...strange. 😂😂😂
This reporter should have learnt a bit more about the history of Slovenia which was than part of Jugoslavia. It was the most open country from that region and part of some countries that were neither alligned with the US or the Soviet Union. Altough as a Hungarian I dont like Tito but many people still remember him as a good leader in former Jugoslav countries. They were much richer and freer compared to other Central-Eastern European countries. Opression has different forms. And Slovenia was very lucky that they did not participate long in the Balkans war.
I'm sure Americans would like to see socialist Yugoslavia as being this oppressed, dark country where you wouldn't dare whisper anything about the regime, where people lived in moldy apartments and ate potatoes day after day, and where everyone was poor, completely shut off from the rest of the world. This would fit well into the idea of the US being the superior, rich, democractic power and therefore better than everyone else. In reality, Yugoslavia, especially in the 1980s, was a very open, free society, where people were allowed to travel anywhere they wanted, no one got imprisoned for speaking out, and the cultural scene was very rich. It was not governed by Russia and was not "behind the iron curtain". Ironically, countries like Poland and Hungary were very foreign to us and we travelled there to see how "people lived under communism" :-) In Slovenia, which was the richest and most advanced of the Yugoslav republics, people were building houses, everyone had enough to live, we always learned English in schools (never Russian), we watched American films and shows, and the stores were always full. However, Yugoslavia as an idea was not sustainable because it was an artificial formation of historically and culturally very different nations (e.g. Slovenians and Serbians don't actually have that much in common) but while it lasted, kudos to Tito (he was a dictator and a criminal in some ways, but a genius politician and strategist in others, and was beloved by his nation), it was a great place to grow up in. Unfortunately, Melania, having sold herself to a marriage with an imbecile, is not the best representative of Slovenians, and we are not really proud of calling her our compatriot.
My dear fellow ex countryman, thanks for your comments.
The presenter is so annoying with his stereotypical outdated questions about Eastern European life.
Like, he is going to find out how people of ex Yugoslavia were oppressed, tortureed, and suffered under communist dictatorship!!!
I wish Melania is more vocal and more explicit in educating him about our mostly happy, carefree, secure lifestyle.
Lifestyle without worrying about losing jobs and lifestyle with superb charge free health care and totally free educational system from nursery school to PhD.
Come on, dear interviewer!!! Educate, prepare, and inform yourself about certain topics before you start questioning guests with the wrong questions.
One thing is for sure, perhaps not for Melania as she married well, that 99% of Yugoslavians would go back to the old ways in the heartbeat.
Particularly us who have seen both sides of the world!!!!
"Democracy" is actually not as it seems to be what we thought about it once upon a time !!!
Life in Yugoslavia was too good to be true, so that is why it didn't last.
Trust me !!!!
I wish I was at Melania's place to speak up loudly and proudly of being Yougolavian !!!!
Those were the days !!!! Happy days !!!!!
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You should learn more about Slovenia,Slovenian history. Slovenia and many other nearby countries were not under communism. There were people who were communists,but communism was not leading the country.
It’s pronounced “sloveenya” not “slovinia”
She also can’t pronounce certain words is ok we understand.
No Slovenia is correct. E as in Elephant. Born there. You English always must change names just because you're lazy and daft to learn a person's/country's name 😅
It’s pronounced “Slovinia” in English
wait, what? the FLOTUS was not even an american citizen born and raised in the US? an immigrant?
And she worked 4x with a tourist/visitor’s visa. There was a NYC fashion week with models put on my Paolo Zampolli and the rest is history. Paolo worked for Trump in NYC real estate. I’m sure Melanja has absolutely no interest in the Trump family sixty year association with Roy Cohn. I believe she got what she wanted that week in 98, a rich husband and a way for her late parents to chain migrate to USA.
Yes like most of us that are legal immigrants - so what
@@elizabethwilk9615 So what?? So Melania broke the law four times. For most people - they get deported for one offence. She has 400% and still got the Einstein Category and parents fast tracked through chain migration. It’s egregious cheating and not waiting in line like everyone else done because her boyfriend paid for all the lawyer. Stupid question of So what from who a hypocrite who likes trump? SMH. Crooked cheaters from way back
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a Young Melania looks like a girl version of Barron
Get real