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HISTORY OF CYCLING ZGODOVINA BICIKLIZMA

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The short film History of Cycling is a response of director Karpo Godina and poet Boris A. Novak to the manipulations of the government and the machinery of the ruling party, according to which bicycles were means of Nazi and fascist propaganda and that Slovenian leftists and communists did not fight the occupiers until Hitler's attack on the USSR on 22 June 1941. Novak, surrounded by protestants on bicycles, recited an excerpt from his epic Doors of No Return inspired by an endeavor, so-called "the action of cyclists", of seventeen communists who, on the day of Nazi attack on Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, volunteered at the Yugoslav Royal Army. They got rifles in the Ljubljana garrison, stole some bicycles and headed to Styria, to defend the homeland. Back to...