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The Yugoslavian front, spring ip43 ITALIAN SOLDIERS! The Slovenian people have launched an inexorable struggle against the occupying forces. Many of your comrades have already fallen in that struggle. And you will go on falling day after day, night after night, for as long as you remain tools in the hands of our oppressors, and until Slovenia is liberated. Your leaders w^ill lead you to believe that the Slovenian people love you, that you are being attacked only by 'tiny numbers of communists'. This is an insolent lie. All Slovenes are in accord w^ith the struggle against the occupying forces. Under the leadership of the Slovenian National Liberation Committee, our entire people has organised itself into a single invincible liberation front. ITALIAN SOLDIERS! Your superiors are concealing from you the desperate situation into which Mussolini has hurled the 'Italian Empire' by selling it to Hider. They are hiding from you the fact that Abyssinia, for which Mussolini spilled so much Italian blood, is no longer in Italian hands. They are hiding from you the impasse that Italian troops face in all of their African colonies. They are hiding from you the losses that Italian troops have suffered in the Balkans, and the fact that western Serbia, Montenegro, most of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Lika, and parts of Dalmatia have already been liberated. They are hiding from you the terrible