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depicts her imprisonment including interrogations and torture. She then describes her life without the basic human rights, which she defines as "a life of an alleviated and diluted variant". In the third part, Vode evaluates the
Yugoslav Communist system. She analyzes the Slovene and Yugoslav Communist regime as a semi-totalitarian society, where a ruling elite misleads the people with lies, promising them a better future, but in fact only satisfying their own greed.
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while her works could not be quoted in books or articles. She was totally in care of her sister Ivanka Špindler for several years. She was given her passport back only in the mid-1970s. Her first public appearance happened shortly before her death in the mid-1980s, when she gave an interview for the alternative journal
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The book is divided into three parts. In the first part, Vode describes the time of war from her personal viewpoint. She depicts her clashes with the
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Vode was accused of "writing an extensive spy report on the political and economic situation in
Slovenia in which she wrote heavy defamations on people's authorities concerning the war and intended to present it to a representative of the American Red Cross in Yugoslavia". She was sentenced to 20
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and started collecting signatures, trying to save the lives of the hostages. The
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occupation forces. Vode became one of the members of
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