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...result is not just what Yugoslavia's Communist-turned-critic, Milovan Djilas, denounced 24 years ago as a "new class"; it is a new aristocracy. Among its most visible and prestigious members are the military. According to Johns Hopkins University Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, "The Soviet military elite has become a privileged and self-perpetuating caste. As just one indication, 70% of the Odessa High Artillery Military School graduates a few years ago were sons of active duty officers...
GEORGE WASHINGTON began the tradition of a two-term presidency and refused the offer of an American kingship, demonstrating that a personality, in his case not power-hungry, can sway the course of a nation. In Tito: The Story From Inside, Milovan Djilas attempts to show that Josip Broz Tito, out of a personal lust for power, established an unstable Yugoslavia that may not long survive his death...
...social stratification that exists in the Soviet Union obviously conflicts with the ideal of equality, which Marx called "the groundwork of Communism." Such an inconsistency was denounced by Yugoslav Dissident Milovan Djilas in his 1957 classic The New Class, and elitism ranks high among the ideological sins for which the Chinese condemn the Soviets. Soviet theorists inscrutably justify such inequality as a "non-antagonistic contradiction." Others, including some Marxist dissidents, claim that the system has not really created an elite class, since political power and its direct perquisites cannot be inherited. But there is one flaw in that argument...
Tito alternately loosened and tightened his hold over Yugoslav politics. When his close comrade Milovan Djilas began arguing for democratic reforms and criticizing the Communist Party elite in the mid-1950s, Tito had him jailed. After Croatian nationalism flared up during a period of liberalization in the late 1960s, he came down hard on the Croats and in 1971 forced their leaders to resign. He also launched a purge of liberals, which reminded the world that Yugoslavia was still a Communist nation run by a dictator. Yet by 1977 the trend was again away from the hard line...
...years later, his cycle of transgression and punishment became a routine. In 1961: expelled from Moscow University for arranging illegal poetry readings in Mayakovsky Square. In 1963: 15 months in a mental hospital for possessing photocopies of a Milovan Djilas book. In 1965: eight months for protesting the closed trials of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. In 1967: three years in a labor camp for supporting other critics of the system. In 1972: twelve years for telling Western journalists about Soviet psychiatric abuses...