LSM (ORGANIZATION OF SLOVENE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS)

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 23, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The LSM (Ljudsico Solska Fladina - Organization of Slovene University Students),,
which controls all university students, is a part of the LMS (Slovene People?s
Youth Movement). University students are connelled to Join the LSM in
order to attend universities.
2. The LSM is constructed as follows:
a. The LSM executive committee, consisting entirely of members of the
SKOJ and the Slovene Communist Party, receives orders from the central
committee of the LMS. (Prospective members of SKOJ with university
background can be acce-)ted as full members only upon recommendation
of the LSM executive committee. Examinations for SKOJ membership
consist entirely of an expmination on the history of the Russian
Communist Party.)
The LSM eyecutive committee maintains a secretariat and is composed
of the following sections:
1. Culture and politics
Propaganda
3. Ph:rsical culture
4. Sociology
5. Statistics
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b. The secretariat, which is in charge of the statistics section, keeps a
"secret" file on each LSM member concerning his political activities
and reliability. Futhermore, an "open" file is kept on each member
concerning his progress at the university anc' particular talents
demonstrated. If a student does not comply with study requirements, he
is liable to expulsion from the LSM and, as a consequence, is auto-
matically dropped from the university.
c. The LSN secretariat in Ljubljana, since January 1948, has been
organizing student gatherings ""thin clubs and "circles" during which
the following topics were discussed:
1. The falsifiers of history.
2. Standardization of prices.
3. History of the all-Russian Communist Party.
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4. Stalin?s ba4tc principles of Leninism.
5. Feuerbach and the end of German classic philosophy.
6. Espionage trials in Yugoslavia.
7. Family, private property, and State.
3. eh university is represented by LSM clubs and each club is represented bj
so-called "Krozek" (circles) for the various university faculties. Students
attending the LSM lectures have to enter debates which are lead by a student
appointed by the LSM committee, It is the student?s responsibility to de-
velop the debate according to Communist principles.
4. The situation of university students who depend on State stipends is especially
complicated. They are forced to join all youth activities arranged by LMS,
through LSM, and have to offer themselves on Sundays and holidays for
"voluntary" work. They also have to be present during all official mass
meetings. After successful termination of their studies they have to accept
a six-year employment contract with the State. If a student does not comply
with these requirements, he has to refund his entire total. stipend, plus
3,500 dinars per month for all the time he attended the university.
5. All students with such Government stipends in Ljubljana live in the students
home at No. 2? Holodvorska silica., formerly the Hotel Triglav. All students
with stipends released from military service to c.}ntinue their studies, live
at the Hotel strukelj on Kalmatinova ulica.
6. The LIIS plenary sessions are attended by all members of the LMS central
committee, as well as two or at most three delegates of each LSM club in Slovenia.
Plenary sessions are held three or four times a year, allegedly to lead the
students to believe in the "democratic institutions of present-dayr Tugoslavia"a
During these sessions, rectifications of the LSM programs are discussed, as
well as difficulties to be eliminated. Actually, the program and directives
for LSI4 are issued by the Yugoslav communist youth program, through the LM-ci
central committee which, as already mentioned, is entirely composed of members
of the SKOJ. Elections of the LSM committee, its clubs and circles, are
supposedly secret and carried through along the principles of parliamentary,
elections. The right to vote, however, is given only to students who have
no record of disciplinary action on the part of LMS. Furthermore, candidates
are selected by the LMS central committee previous to elections and. thus, the
students may choose only from selected personnel. Committee candidates aIwpys
have to be members of the SKOJ, or a9least SKOJ prospects.
7. Pmrnn el:
a. General secretary of.LSMs Sava. (last name unknown) member of SKOJ, holds
the rank of lieutenant, and is a stipendiary student.
b.
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c. The following university professors at the University of Ljubljana are
considered ardent communists:
Dr. tielik, Anton, rector of Ljubljana University and professor of history.
Dr. Perpar, Marija, professor of history, specializing in history of the
all-Russian Communist Party.
Skerlak, Tibor, professor of dialictic philosophy and materialism.
d. University professors at the University of Ljubljana considered anti-
communists:
Dr. Weber, k'ranc, professor of philosophy (not teaching at present).
Dr. Ssmec, Maks, professor of chemistry, at present attached to the
academy of arts and sciences but not allowed to teach.
Secer. Lojze, professor of biology.
Zega, Mirko, assistant to Professor txuzelj (faculty unspecified).
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