Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are figures which mean little or nothing. In Yugoslavia it is easier to get secret military information than hard data on economy and production. The government triumphantly an nounces results in terms of percentages which are not related to any ascertainable figures. Thus it is always "92% of the plan for this year" - but no one knows or will say just what the plan for this year was in the first place. Or, again, a favorite formula: "28% more than last year." But it is impossible to discover how much was produced last year...
...truth about the plan, as near as it can be discovered, is that This is certainly falling way below the targets, This is not because Yugoslavia is short of prime natural resources...
...Yugoslavia is essentially a peasant country. One of the phony accusations made by Stalin against Tito was that land sociali zation had not gone far enough, and that Yugoslavia was run by the "kulaks." The fact is that there are 6,500 collective farms in Yugoslavia, supporting between 1,250,000 and 1,500,000 people who are working 4,353,900 acres, or 23% of the land under cul tivation. In Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, less than 10% of the land is collectivized...
...high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog ress. By 1951 half the land in Yugoslavia will be socialized...
...Titoists think their attitude toward "mysticism" has been shrewdly re strained. "Our policy toward the church has been proved right," boasted Milovan Djilas, Minister Without Portfolio. "We have not made a martyr of her." What Djilas meant was that a paper right of worship has been left in Yugoslavia, and that this serves to camouflage persecution of the church...