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...wheels of government turned ponderously to silence a critic in Yugoslavia last week. The victim was Mihajlo Mihajlov, 30, professor of literature at the university at Zadar on the Adriatic Sea, who, after a visit to Russia, wrote a frankly anti-Soviet piece for the Yugoslav monthly Delo (TIME, Feb. 19). Grabbed by police under pressure from President Tito himself, Mihajlov was charged with "deriding" a foreign government-a criminal charge in Yugoslavia...
...trial, Mihajlov proved a difficult man to cow. Appearing in a courtroom whose only ornament was a large portrait of Tito, he pleaded not guilty before a three-judge tribunal. He even scored a pre-trial victory when the Croatian Supreme Court sustained his petition to have one of the judges originally assigned to the case removed for prejudice-the judge had led the drive to get Mihajlov fired from his university post. When signing the court register, Mihajlov neatly added after his name, "from the town of Zadar, which in the last issue of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia...
...Mihajlov, who gleaned his facts from documents and interviews during a two-month stay in the Soviet Union last summer, was surprised to find Russians reminiscing openly about the camps. He reported that "concentration camp songs" have become a kind of Russian folk music, and are recklessly sung by Soviet youth despite the regime's obvious disapproval...
...Yugoslav's article, called "Moscow Summer," contained other acid observations of the Russian scene. The waiters in restaurants were surly, Mihajlov complained, adding that crime is so prevalent that it is dangerous to walk alone on out-of-the-way streets. At a hotel he was "rudely" told that there were no rooms-until he showed his passport. Then he received an instant apology: "We did not know you were a foreigner. We thought you were a Russian...
...Russian embassy carried its indignant reaction to the government anyway. With that, Tito's regime, anxious that cold water not be dashed on its currently warmer relations with Moscow, banned the offending issue. And Yugoslavia's party organ, Kommunist, blossomed with appropriate expressions of shock, denouncing Author Mihajlov for "misuse" of Russian hospitality and Delo's editors for lack of "good taste...