After the death of President Tito Yugoslav intellectuals started to publish articles in which they criticized the current Yugoslav political system and the mistakes and privileges of its communist leaders. While in other parts of Yugoslavia the authors of such articles were still being legally persecuted, Slovene authorities were more tolerant of those who did not agree with them. Numerous demands of cultural workers gradually acquired distinctively political tendencies (such as the demands to abolish the so-called verbal delict or to investigate illegal activities of the Communist Party during its climb to power, for instance). At first, intellectuals tended to disguise these demands as cultural themes, claiming that they were mainly interested in cultural and less in political issues. In 1987, however, their activities became explicitly political. Using decidedly political terms, they actively participated in the formation of the future Slovene political system.