Ten years ago, a break-down occurred not only concerning the institutional position of Slovenia, but also as regards the Slovenian view of ourselves as a nation. Up to that point, the Slovenian politics believed in a dogma that the Slovenian nation was too small to found its own state, and that it lacked the necessary power to be preserved at the geopolitically so exposed site as the territory of Slovenia. Therefore the goal of the actual Slovenian politics, regardless of ideological convictions, was always just to reach as broad autonomy as possible within the framework of a larger parent country, formerly Austria, and later also Yugoslavia. However, in these ten days of political independence it turned out that, as a nation, we are able to accede to the united Europe at an equal level. However, a new problem is opening up - the problem of how to preserve our identity.