Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protection of the People. After the defeat of Germany, Tito, the proletarian proconsul, completely supplanted the pseudodemocrat. On the numerous new holidays he decreed, peasants in rich, fertile Croatia, villagers in hot, dry Dalmatia or highlanders in the barren Karst Mountains assembled in the public squares (under rigorous orders to display "sincere devotion") and chanted: "Tito belongs to us, we belong to Tito...
Behind the thin camouflage of a pseudo-liberal constitution and a National Front Government, Proconsul Tito shaped the government of the South Slav lands into a model Communist police state. His NKVD-trained secret police force, OZNA (Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...
...Tito maintains a standing army of approximately 800,000 men, trained and supervised by Red Army officers, armed with Red Army guns and decorated with Red Army insignia. So deeply ingrained are its conspiratorial habits that it still hides large stores of weapons in the hills against possible counter-revolutionary surprises...
...systematically liquidated, since ration cards are issued only to workers (says the model Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic Church remains Tito's strongest potential opposition. So far, he has not dared to tamper with it seriously...
Belgrade intellectuals jeer that Tito heads a government of hillbillies, because the new civil service (carefully purged of nonCommunists) includes many a Partisan who can barely read & write. Actually, the Government is well-stocked with Communist theoreticians. Tito's chief adviser is meticulous, humorless Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 36, a former schoolmaster with a Goebbels limp and a Molotov mustache, who spent six years in Yugoslav prisons for writing Communist pamphlets. Later, he fled to Russia where he headed Odessa's Revolutionary School for the Balkans. Currently he writes most of Tito's prolific legislation and heads...