The Communist Party was established in Slovenia two and a half years after the revolutionary events in Russia in October or November 1917, and the first responses to it correspond to such a temporal distance. The Slovenian communists' opinion of the October Revolution formed completely at the second congress of the Yugoslav communists in June 1920 in Vukovar, when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was established. The Slovenian Communist Party became an integral part of the Yugoslav Party, and a programme based on the guidelines of the Russian Bolshevik Party or the Comintern was adopted. The Vukovar Programme guided the Yugoslav and thus also Slovenian communists for the following 28 years, i.e. until the fifth congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1948, and it, quite understandably, prescribed the attitude towards "the October". Throughout the period under consideration, the Communist Party unwaveringly maintained the ideologically-conditioned idealised image of the October Revolution, which it saw as a turning point in the human history that "liberated mankind on one sixth of the Earth's surface". It also emphasised the Bolshevik revolutionary role of Lenin and Stalin, which led to a personality cult. The attitude of the Communist Party towards the October Revolution was multifaceted. On the one hand it focused on the internal scope of the Party, while on the other hand it was aimed at the wider public space as well. The latter was anything but one-sided, as it largely depended on the extraordinary circumstances in which the Yugoslav Communist Party operated in the time of the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia: i.e. on its exclusion from the public life soon after its establishment; on the specific situation during the occupation and World War II; and, throughout this time, on the tactical guidelines of the Comintern and the Soviet state leadership. Among other things, the perception of the October Revolution also became important during the celebration of its anniversaries, as well as the anniversaries of Lenin's death, establishment of the Red Army, and so on. Despite the fact that the communists concealed their revolutionary goals more or less evidently, they did not ignore the October Revolution, as they would regularly commemorate either the event itself or the measures adopted by the concurrent Soviet revolutionary authorities in order to build the socialist society as the fundamental "achievement" of the October Revolution. In this regard the Party would often act strategically, as it would, for example, publish speeches of the Soviet leaders and articles on the celebration of this occasion in the Soviet Union in the newspapers – in such a manner as to create a sort of a distance by quoting others, without directly promoting any revolutionary actions at home, even though the very publication of such texts in itself in fact attested to the Party's identification with the legacy of the October Revolution or with the social system based on it. However, on the other hand the Party would often emphasise clearly that the Soviet Union was the "true homeland" of the entire international proletariat, hence also of the Yugoslav workers. According to the Party, the land of "the October" was a model, a signpost and inspiration for all Communist Parties, the working people, and the whole of humankind in the capitalist countries. The Party also expressed its belief in a global revolution, which is why all the Communist Parties were obliged to defend the Soviet Union as the "fortress" of the international proletarian revolution in light of the imperialist threat. Throughout this time an emphasis was placed on defending the policies and orientations of the Bolshevik Party and the Comintern. The communists based the importance of the October Revolution on the concurrent grounds, and the anniversaries were an especially unique opportunity to present the achievements of the Soviet society in the economic, social, cultural, scientific, and other areas. They would repeatedly demonstrate the constant progress of the Soviet society, allegedly free of any crises in comparison with the capitalist countries, and saw the socialist system as the only possible future. During World War II, these emphases were also supplemented with the importance of the combat effectiveness of the Red Army in its struggle against fascism. In the context of the occupied Europe and the liberation aspirations, emphasising the battle readiness and the leading role in the military campaign against the Axis Powers shifted the importance of the Revolution quite automatically to the military and liberation aspects and allowed the Slovenian communists to push the ideological and political questions on what was possibly a Bolshevik basis into the background, although the year 1942 was somewhat of an exception.