Word: milovan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Building. A waiting crowd of about 100 students set up a derisive howl: "Traitors! Bandits!" The two men in the lead, one a slight, wiry figure, the other a burly, tousled man, pretended not to hear. But at the doorway the small man turned to the taunters. "Kush!" cried Milovan Djilas, using the word Yugoslavs generally do to quiet howling dogs. Then Djilas, the deposed Vice President of Yugoslavia, and his companion, Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer of Marshal Tito, went inside to stand trial for daring to criticize Tito's Communist regime...
...clubs . . . We have our own friends." But 40-year-old Vladimir Dedijer (pronounced Dayd-yer), devoted Communist, had no friends who could, or would, help him out of the trouble he was in. The only man in Yugoslavia to speak up for him at all-ex-Vice President Milovan Djilas-was himself in just as much trouble. The two men fought alone last week in a suspenseful but losing battle against Yugoslavia's Communist hierarchy. It was a rare sight: a deep and significant squabble deep inside a Communist family circle, but carried out in almost full view...
That's the Way. Tito's other rebel last week amiably sat back waiting for the disciplinarians to come after him. Milovan Djilas had been stripped of all his offices a year ago, and seemed readier than his friend to accept the consequences of his heresy. "If it had been Kardelj under attack, I would no doubt have been forced to lead the fight against him," he said. "That's the way Communist parties work...
...from a sanitarium where he goes frequently for treatment of his old war wounds, Dedijer learned that he was being purged from government and party for the sin of "diversionism." In Communist eyes, Dedijer's waywardness began a year ago. When the regime's No. 3 Communist, Milovan Djilas, was put on trial for publishing articles which publicly criticized both the loose morals and the political rigidity of the party's top leaders, only two Yugoslavs spoke up in his defense. One was Djilas' exwife, Mitra Mitrovic. The other was Vlado Dedijer, who dared to take...
...developments brought the Djilas affair back to full-and unexpected -life. From his enforced retirement in Belgrade (on a $165-a-month pension), Milovan Djilas last week took the extraordinary step of speaking out against the Tito regime. He called for the formation of a new "democratic-socialist" party to contest Tito's one-party rule...