The Slovene National Liberation Committee (SNOS) (; , Словеначко народноослободилачко веће) was formed as the highest governing organ of

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movement of

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during

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. The president of its presidium was Josip Vidmar. SNOS was formed on February 19, 1944 in Črnomelj when the 120-member Liberation Front Plenum, constituted in 1943 by the Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation in Kočevje, opted to change its name to SNOS and proclaim itself as the temporary Slovenian Parliament. One of its most important decisions was that after the end of the war Slovenia would become a state within the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. In spite of the fact the territory was occupied by Axis forces, SNOS was more than just a symbolic entity. Several important institutions functioned under its supervision. For example, it established even a Statistical Bureau of Slovenia on its session on August 19, 1944. Just before the end of the war, on May 5, 1945, the SNOS met for the last time in the town of

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in the Julian March (then formally still part of the

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) and established the Slovene government with the Communist leader Boris Kidrič as its president.60 Years Since First Post-WWII Slovenian Government
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* Anti-fascism in Yugoslavia Slovenia in World War II Slovene Political history of Slovenia 1944 establishments in Slovenia 1945 disestablishments in Yugoslavia {{Yugoslavia-stub

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