Word: yugoslavia
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...refused the offer of an American kingship, demonstrating that a personality, in his case not power-hungry, can sway the course of a nation. In Tito: The Story From Inside, Milovan Djilas attempts to show that Josip Broz Tito, out of a personal lust for power, established an unstable Yugoslavia that may not long survive his death...
Djilas has a unique perspective on Tito's life, having helped him make Yugoslavia a communist state in the 1940s and 1950s, before they split in 1954. Moreover, many had considered Djilas to be Tito's heir-apparent. But since 1954, he has spent a total of nine years in jail for advocating democratic changes in the political process and is still unable to travel outside of Yugoslavia. His theory of personality determinism, however, merely strengthens the argument that Tito-leading a nation caught in an American-Soviet vise-centralized power in Yugoslavia for the good of the country. Yugoslavia...
...what was best for the people. And again, when he wanted to return civil liberties to the people to bolster creativity, he didn't understand the practical realities of the era. Neither the United States nor the U.S.S.R. would allow free elections; they would have preferred to a make Yugoslavia another Latin American-type political chessboard with commensurate violence between the vying ideologies of each superpower. Tito did avoid this dilemma by the questionable method of limiting freedoms, but Djilas falls short of substantiating that a better state had been possible...
...book, Djilas describes several abominable and not-so-well-known elements of Tito's regime. The concentration camps, the one-party system, the purges of the opposition, and the eradication of the democratic movements destroy any image of Yugoslavia as a utopian state. Nevertheless, Yugoslavia was certainly superior to other developing non-aligned nations of that era in civil liberties permitted...
...growing further away from us. In any case, it will be a healthy sign for Mr Reagan should the public start calling him Ronnie or even Sweet Eyes. TIME'S congressional correspondent Neil MacNeil recalls that when Mike DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, escorted ex-King Michael of Yugoslavia in an open-car parade, the citizens called out to the mayor, "Hey, Mike" and "Mike" this and "Mike" that. The King observed to his host that the people didn't seem to treat him with much dignity by calling him Mike. Replied DiSalle: "If your people had called...