Myths are created in an ongoing fashion and arise from every kind of historical situation. Among the Slovenes, they first helped to create (and then to erase) the Central European Austro-Hungarian identity as well as both the Yugoslav ones - monarchic and socialistic. More recently, in the new, belated wave of formation of national states, they helped in the emergence of a Slovene state, which was self-sufficient for 12 years before succeeding in joining the EU. The current political myth derives from the conviction that the current generation of Slovenes are experiencing their apogee and moment of greatest happiness, having come, as it were, to »the end of history«.