British was impressed by partisan feminism

Famous British publication The War Illustrated From March 1944, it puts a partisan for the forefront, and in the background is a portrait of marshal Joseph Broz Tito on the wall. The glorification of Tito was part of Churchill’s tactical calculus.

Academician dr. Jože Pirjevec It emphasizes the important role of women in the Slovenian liberation struggle and the Yugoslav partisanship in general. Why did they play such a big role? « When an English agent who worked in Vojvodina asked a young woman why women were so fervent for partisanship, she replied that so that men would no longer beat them and that women would also have the right to say what they thought, » Pirjevec replies with a clear example. Women understood that the partisan struggle for them was also emancipation, so in this sense they were engaged as never before.

“We already know that there is no revolution without women from the French Revolution. The same thing happened in us. I am convinced that without the involvement of women, the partisan struggle would not have such success as it is. ”Pirjevec also puts on the story of his aunt Milka, an ordinary farmer who was called by a partisan mother because she cooked and helped the partisans. “How many miles were in Slovenia everywhere! But in the partisan struggle, it was not only simple women, it was also about intellectuals, for doctors. «