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Slovenian People's Liberation Council (SNOS) (Slovene: Slovenski Narodnoosvobodilni Svet) was formed as the highest governing organ of anti-fascist movement in Slovenia during World War II. The president of its presidium was Josip Vidmar.[1]
SNOS was formed on February 19, 1944 in Črnomelj when the 120-member plenum of Liberation Front of the Slovenian People (Slovene: Osvobodilna Fronta Slovenskega Naroda) opted to change its name to SNOS and proclaim itself as the temporary Slovenian parliament. One of its most important decisions was that after the end of the war Slovenia would become a states within the Yugoslav federation.[2]
In spite of the fact that Slovenia was occupied by Axis forces, SNOS was more than just a symbolic entity. Several important institutions functioned under its supervision. For example, it established even a Statistical Bureau of Slovenia on its session on August 19, 1944.[3] Just before the end of the war, on May 5, 1945, the SNOS met for the last time in the town of Ajdovščina in the Julian March (then formally still part of the Kingdom of Italy) and established the Slovenian government with the Communist leader Boris Kidrič as its president.[4].
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- ^ Slovenia on worldstatesmen.org
- ^ (Slovene) 60-letnica Zbora odposlancev slovenskega naroda v Kočevju (2003)
- ^ (Slovene) 60 let slovenske statistike
- ^ 60 Years Since First Post-WWII Slovenian Government
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