Working without a theoretical background the article discusses two Slovenian intellectuals: Angela Vode and Igor Šentjurc. These two writers and publicists, though separated by sex and the centuries in which they were born,are bound by life experience, for the state and Party, along with its subordinates, the Secret Police (Geheim-Polizei), as well as legal authoritiesthat oppressed them, were fundamentally and continually a part of these two individualsʼ lives.