摘要：The socio-political transformations of Slovenia in the 1980s and 1990s were not founded
on the verifiable facts but mostly on the popular cultural myths, beliefs and practices that
have been established by a new regime of truth about the Slovenian nation. The old
hegemonic discourse of Yugoslav brotherhood and unity started to loose its persuasiveness
and people started to raise new borders between the Yugoslav nations by referring
to the newly invented old traditions and the freshly discovered forgotten memories, and
by selective forgetting of events that could challenge the new order of truth. Slovenian
skiers and their sporting results played especially visible role in this remembering process.
Because of its omnipresence in people’s everyday life skiing became an integral part
of this new national mnemonic scheme and served as a material proof of Slovenian national
distinctiveness. This paper focuses on a genealogy of collective memory of skiing
in Slovenia until 1991 that was legitimised by science, politics and the media; they jointly
transformed skiers and skiing into sites of national memory that were disseminated as a
part of everyday popular entertainment.
