Word: stefanovi
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...encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying the eavesdropping charge-had admitted that he was "morally and politically" at fault. With Ranković went Secret Police Boss Svetislav Stefanović, 55, whose ubiquitous UDBA spy network had kept a tough, unrelenting grip on Yugoslavia since 1946. In one stroke, Tito had dismantled the entire upper echelon of his secret police-a move unparalleled in the Communist world since Khrushchev destroyed Soviet Top Cop Lavrenty Beria...
...scope of the "conspiracy" against Tito was reflected in his choice of Brioni as the site of the purge. Both Ranković and Stefanović are Serbians-the dominant race in Yugoslavia's six-nation mix*-and Belgrade itself is the old Serb capital. Tito may well have feared that by denouncing Ranković on his home ground, he might trigger a Serb uprising...
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