In this paper the author decpiets how the stance on the part of Slovenians towards repression after the Second World War was established in national identity and collective memory. He finds that the one time ideologically created homogenous collective memory of the War and post-War events exists no longer. On the basis of new, earlier hidden knowledge, no new, completely different view was established, i.e. was (by way of the media and politics) created only partly. He assesses that reconciliation was comprehended primarily as possibility and right to express and defend own opinion and express respect to the deceased, regardless of their historical guilt and responsibility.