Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, and to the Communists of other countries, Tito insists that Yugoslavia is more Communist than Russia. For the Western democracies he insidiously and discreetly spreads the impression that Yugo slavia me gradually being liberalized. This was the line given me "confidentially" or "off the record" by almost every Communist official with whom I talked...
More & more people fall for this line. While I was in Yugoslavia a score of British Labor M.P.s were being taken on a conducted tour of the country. Afterwards one of them told me: "We had complete freedom to go wherever we wanted, and we were all deeply impressed by what we saw ... I am convinced that Yugoslavia is moving in the direction of our Western democracies." And so forth. Such Titotalitarianism was uncomfortably remindful of those British Conservatives in the '305 who used to return full of enthusiasm from the Hitlerian Nürnberg rallies...
...plain truth is that Yugoslavia is a vicious, degrading Communist state. It has a new aristocracy-the party leaders with their Buicks in Dedinje; a new middle class of high officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction and some land has been reclaimed. But the price is a subhuman standard of truth living, an and infinite falsehood, a dreariness, social an system inability in to which the distinguish two worst between crimes are to worship God and to say no to the state...
Deep discontent and resentment smolder throughout Yugoslavia, directed against four typical expressions of Communism : 1) the five-year plan, which compels men & women to work hard for an almost unbearable standard of living; 2) socialization of the land; 3) persecution of the church; 4) suppression of human freedoms by an all-powerful secret police...
...primary aim of the five-year plan is to make Yugoslavia economically self-sufficient by a policy of industrialization pursued at breakneck pace. Tito last summer claimed that 50% of the goal had been accomplished. Last week the five-year plan's mastermind Boris Kidric, chairman of the Planning Commission, raised the claim of fulfillment...