Word: mihajlov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...articles I always wanted to help Yugoslavia. I am simply fighting for the rights set out in the constitution." So pleaded Mihajlo Mihajlov last week as he stood before five stern-faced jud es in a courtroom at Novi Sad, about 75 miles northwest of Belgrade. For the 40-year-old dissident author, who was arrested last October, that fight involves denouncing his country's one-party system-even at his own trial. To no one's surprise, the justices, all of whom are members of the League of Yugoslav Communists, ignored his arguments and found him guilty...
...ostensible reason for Mihajlov's trial was the publication, since 1971, of four of his articles by Posev, a stridently anti-Moscow Russian-language journal published in Frankfurt by Soviet émigrés. All the articles had earlier appeared in Western journals, including the New York Times and the New Leader. In an essay on Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mihajlov noted that the true artist "really endangers the dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party." In another work, he accused Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito of permitting a "cult of personality" and denounced the Yugoslav "party oligarchy" for attempting...
Moscow's Least Favorite. If these articles were so offensive to Belgrade, asked Yugoslavia's Archheretic Milovan Djilas in a newspaper article last fall, why was Mihajlov not indicted when they first appeared? Answering his own question, Djilas notes that three years ago, the. historian's statements did not seem so threatening to the regime as they do now that "Yugoslavia's ideological and political course has changed." Tito, who will be 83 in May, has grown increasingly worried about his nation's ability to remain united and independent after his death. Thus...
...Jailing Mihajlov might also be a sop to the Soviets, whose attitude toward Yugoslavia will be extremely important in the post-Tito era (TIME, Oct. 21). For a decade, Mihajlov has been the Kremlin's least favorite Yugoslav. His 1965 travelogue, Moscow Summer, was scathingly critical of the Soviet police state. Kremlin leaders were so angered by it that they pressured Belgrade to prosecute Mihajlov for "defaming a friendly power." Since then he has been tried three times and has served 3½ years in prison. This did not dissuade him, however, from warning in his recent articles that...
Even before his detention last fall, Mihajlov was living in a prison of sorts. The government refused to let him publish, and he was prevented from leaving the country to accept lecturing positions at Western universities. Now Mihajlov hopes that Western outrage at his imprisonment will induce Belgrade to reduce his sentence or permit him to emigrate...