This article focuses on the question of how the activities of the intellectuals in the 1960s were observed and evaluated by the leading politicians of the Communist Party of Slovenia. The negative reputation that the Slovenian political leadership acquired with its rough intervention in the cultural scene in 1964 was the foundation for the consideration of how to avoid such scandals in the future. In the second half of the 1960s, the League of Communists of Slovenia commissions for ideological questions were led by people who defined the role of intellectuals in society in an entirely different manner than the older generation of communists. Hence, as long as this group of politicians prevailed in the Slovenian political leadership, the door was open for diversity in the sphere of culture.
