Matej Rigelnik wrote that people went to the forest also so that their children would not speak German and to preserve the language and names of villages. He emphasized that people were willing to undertake great deeds to preserve these things. He recalled his grandmother's words in the Trbovlje maternity hospital, where, according to her, around 900 children were born a year forty years ago, while today only around 350 are born. The grandmother added that most of them are, in her opinion, no longer "ours." Rigelnik noted that Slovenians gained their own country, schools, books, and flags, but he wondered whether the people who fought for this counted on the possibility that over time there would be fewer and fewer of those who could pass it on. #jezik #kultura #zgodovina (translated)