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October 25, 2016
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Tito’s Legacy. Although Tito did much good for Yugoslavia and was, in many ways, unique among communist leaders, we need to keep in mind that he was also a study in contrasts. I previously described him as a strongman dealing …
October 25, 2016
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Despite the elections, it’s a bit of an understatement to say that the nascent Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was far from being a stable country let alone some sort of federal democratic republic. Maybe not quite Fifty Ways but …
October 25, 2016
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At the end of the previous entry, I’d taken the oath as a Pioniri but more importantly taken you through some of the events that shaped the early life of Josip Broz. The onset of the Second World War loomed …