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But Tito and the communist owe their power in Yugoslavia mainly to the support of Churchill and the British.

One of the conspiracy theories in Serbia during Tito's times was that Tito actually was British "agent". He never spoke language properly and had totally strange accent...nothing like Croat ...or even Russian...or Slav...
Why for the sake of God would Churchill give up on a royalist (our king and his family had asylum in GB at the time) and go support the communist???  Why Yugoslavia was allowed to say NO to Russia in 1948 and have it's own way ...Must be some fucking experiment agreed between British and Russian leaders...
by vbo on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 09:51:17 AM EST
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I'm so tired of Tito conspiracy theories.

When talking to Croatian friends in the 90's they would accuse Yugoslavia of being a Serb supremacist device to destroy Croatians as an independent people, and when I said "but Tito was a Croat" they said "but he was a Communist".

It's all about bogeymen, and when the ethnicity of the bogeyman is not the right one you can always blame the Communists. (Like Stalin the Georgian and Brezhnev the Ukrainian)

Bah, humbug.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 10:59:53 AM EST
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