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c/europe · by supersquirrel@lemmy.ca · 1d

The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/18/remigration-europe-slovenia-government-immigrants

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anon6789@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d (5 replies)

Wow, crazy stuff in that article! The guy that got pulled over for speeding and then made a surprise POW, and that being the best case scenario for him was insane. How a government can just magically deny your existence seems a nobody should have, yet it's probably scarily common around the world.

supersquirrel@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1d

Yeah, it is terrifying that people coexist with people in their communities who they rely on as contributing community members while being fine with them living in traumatic precarity.

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1d (1 reply)

There were cases of the erased returning home to find their locks changed: someone had simply claimed and occupied their flat, realising the victim would have no recourse to call the police.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d

It's so hard to get in the mindset of some people. Seeing the neighbors finally leave the house to buy food and you quick run over and literally steal their home? I feel bad asking to borrow things!

majster@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 23h (1 reply)

Yeah the procedure was ruled unconstitutional. But the article is missing context to paint the event as some sort of ethnic cleansing.

After independence there was 6 month period to claim new citizenship if you had state citizenship of some other republic. 175000 did it while 25000 did not. Those that did not became foreigners in the new country.

The problem was that those that did not claim citizenship were not notified their status is going to change.

Its kinda similar to Baltics where Russians didnt want to take citizenship and you have old people to this day that have only USSR papers. I would assume similar problems would arise in case of indy Scotland or Catalonia.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h

Thanks for the additional context. I read some more background and opinions on the izbrisani. It doesn't sound so much intentionally cruel as people had to make decisions during a war, and then when it came time to figure out what to do with the people that became unaccounted for due to whatever reason, there was also nothing in place to get them reintegrated and they were thrown off into various bad situations without means to appeal because of their administrative erasure.

One opinion I read said these were people that didn't think independence was going to happen, and if it did, they could just get a working visa and carry on, but now they were not in the system and therefore that plan went up in smoke.

Another said there had been a general Yugoslavian citizenship everyone had, and one would register a Republic citizenship as well, but that wasn't seen as super important during unity, but then post war, that became a huge problem as they were suddenly non-citizens.

Regardless, it does seem a bit more complex than this article implied. It's still scary the effects paperwork being filed or not can have, but I'm glad to have reserved some of this story.

tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org · 6 pts · 1d (2 replies)

That's not comparable in my opinion as there are too many factors in today's Europe that haven't played a role in Slovenia of 1992. The author speaks of the U.S. influence, which is perfectly rights, but we must not forget that the threats for democracy in Europe comes not only from the West. The European far-right is also heavily supported by Russia and China that aim to destabilize societies and sow division.

Marriage of Convenience: How European Far-Right and Far-Left Discovered China

European far-right and far-left political parties, though ideologically opposed, are finding common ground in their alignments with China, echoing Beijing’s narratives and raising concerns about foreign influence and manipulation.

And in a news just from today:

Germany's far-right AfD wants return of Russian gas to Germany

supersquirrel@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Tardigrade all you ever bring to the conversation seems to be fear mongering about China, you behave like a cardboard cutout with only three or four tag lines it says when you press the button.

Some European far-right and far-left political parties have discovered an unlikely area of convergence: a degree of alignment with China. While not universal across the ideological spectrum, certain parties and individuals within both groups have leveraged overlapping arguments to challenge the more critical stance adopted by several EU members and the European Commission toward Beijing. This emerging alignment, though nuanced and varied in intensity, holds potential implications for EU-China relations and the broader political dynamics within Europe.

lol what a weaksauce article, where is the systematic connection with the left here?

tardigrade@scribe.disroot.org · 0 pts · 1d

where is the systematic connection with the left here?

Just read it.

majster@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Page not found? If they mean the "izbrisani" thing. That wasn't a remigration blueprint.

supersquirrel@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d

Fixed it thanks

Tehdastehdas@piefed.social · 4 pts · 14h

Nowhere Man (1995) TV series

Nowhere Man is the story of photojournalist Thomas Veil, who discovers that his life has been abruptly “erased": his friends claim not to know him, his wife claims not to recognize him and is living with another man. His ATM cards and credit cards no longer work. His best friend turns up dead. His private studio is now owned by someone else. … In the course of a single evening, every trace of Tom’s identity is gone.