During the third session of the Section of the Marxist Centre of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia for Conceptual Questions of Historiography on 26 December 1978, a primarily political discussion about a book by the Marxist writer Dušan Kermavner took place. Kermavner was not a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia and was already deceased at the time. The book was about the political history of the Primorska region at the end of the First World War and during Italian occupation. The debate was typical of the totalitarian nature of the self-government system in the SFRY (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) as it exposed the researcher, who was no longer able to defend himself, to political, methodological, scientific and moral criticism. The discussion was actually mainly intended for diverting attention away from the plans of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia to gain complete control over the education system, which followed its 10th congress.