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...revolution. They are openly proud of the fact that they are officially "uncensored." But they still know what subjects remain taboo. Usually those subjects involve Tito. The papers do not discuss his private life or his personality. Nor do they discuss his opponents. No paper has spoken up for Milovan Djilas, Tito's former friend, now serving a sentence for advocating that his country take the Western road. And, though it was a top story in the Western press, no Yugoslav paper had anything to say in defense of Mihajlo Mihajlov, the 32-year-old writer who just began...
...proclaim that he and half a dozen friends planned to publish a magazine with the frank intent of opposing the government. Its name would be Slobodni Glas (Free Voice) and it would seek to replace one-party rule with a brand of democratic socialism first bruited by Partisan Hero Milovan Djilas, once Yugoslavia's top Communist theoretician but currently a prisoner for his corrosive anti-Marxist critiques...
NJEGOŠ by Milovan Djilas. 498 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...Milovan Djilas is probably the world's most publicized political prisoner. He may also be the most published. A former Vice Premier in Marshal Tito's government, he was slapped into jail in 1956 for his sizzling censures of the regime. There he has languished loquaciously for almost a decade, fearlessly issuing criticism, history and fiction about life in Yugoslavia (Conversations with Stalin, The New Class). This book, completed in 1959, is the first detailed biography of Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop (from 1830 to 1851) of Djilas' native Montenegro, and Serbia...
Predictably, the court found Mihajlov guilty but, in place of the maximum sentence of three years, sentenced him to ten months in prison, less the one month he had already spent in pre-trial custody. It was a much milder penalty than that meted out to Milovan Djilas (The New Class), who is still serving a nine-year term for criticizing Yugoslav Communism. To cynics, that was just the point: a Yugoslav gets only months for criticizing Stalin but gets years for criticizing Tito...