Word: yugoslavic
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Stoyan has been our Balkan expert for years. Although he is now a U.S. citizen, he was born in a district of old Austria-Hungary which became part of Yugoslavia after World War I. His father was Yugoslav Minister of the Interior until he was exiled for opposing the late King Alexander's dictatorship-and Stoyan today has one cousin who is a lieutenant colonel on Tito's general staff, another who is an official on the Partisan National Committee...
...peasants work their patches of land as best they can. No one calls it collective farming, but everyone helps his neighbor and contributes to the Army. The Partisan movement's strong Communist element, Communist Tito's connections with Moscow have not noticeably altered the ways of Yugoslav peasants...
...room hewn from the bowels of the earth and lined with woodwork, Tito offered us a welcome Slivovic (strong Yugoslav plum brandy) and American cigarets...
...what he used to be. He has morale only in the impetus of the first assault. If it fails, he loses heart. Nowadays, the Ustashi (Croatian quisling soldier) is worth two Germans in combat. He knows what to expect if defeated, and is intimately acquainted with the Yugoslav terrain...
Said Dr. Nikolic: the Nazis have sent 500 Yugoslav doctors to Germany and the Russian front, looted hospital equipment and food, refused to aid the sick, often spread disease as a political persuasion. In huge concentration camps "for the undesirables," said he, men, women & children were deliberately exposed to typhus...