Word: politika
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petric once wrote journalistic film criticism for the daily publication, "Politika," in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His film reviews appeared in a weekly Monday supplement, and one day he was reading through it in a barbershop. "You're reading that crazy Petric," the barber observed. "Let me give you some advice: whenever he says a film is excellent, don't go, but if he says not to go to a movie, I guarantee you will enjoy it." That was the end of his career as a film reviewer...
...1950s. Among the casualties of the resultant purges have been younger party and government officials who argued for more liberal reforms, not less, as the answer to Yugoslavia's problems. Over the past month, liberal editors have been ousted at the weekly newsmagazine NIN and the Belgrade daily Politika; the editor of the popular evening paper...
...Politika Ekspres was fined for accusing Moscow of trying to exploit Yugoslavia's economic and social troubles...