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...article in the Belgrade literary monthly Delo, Dr. Mihajlo Mihajlov, a Yugoslav professor and translator of Russian literature, boldly reported that the first Russian camp was set up in 1921 near the Arctic port of Archangel, and sent "to death thousands of members of different revolutionary parties opposing the Soviets." Estimating that possibly 12 million Russians passed through Stalin's concentration camps, Mihajlov recalled: "Stalin's genocide is much older than that of Hitler...
...Yugoslav's article, called "Moscow Summer," contained other acid observations of the Russian scene. The waiters in restaurants were surly, Mihajlov complained, adding that crime is so prevalent that it is dangerous to walk alone on out-of-the-way streets. At a hotel he was "rudely" told that there were no rooms-until he showed his passport. Then he received an instant apology: "We did not know you were a foreigner. We thought you were a Russian...
...rise began in 1957, when, as a member of the 130-man Communist Central Committee, he shrewdly backed Khrushchev's bid for power, shortly thereafter became one of Nikita's two First Deputy Premiers and heir apparent; his decline started in 1963 when his hard-line anti-Yugoslav attitude brought a swift and angry rebuke from Khrushchev, after which his illness dropped him from the front ranks, and eventually from public view altogether...
...mention that the Soviets received a clear and correct warning of Hitler's timetable from their trusted agent in Japan, the German journalist Richard Sorge. He gives no more than a sentence to the three-to-four-week delay of the attack on Russia that was caused by Yugoslav and Greek resistance in the spring of 1941, although that delay may well have been the most important single factor in the German failure (by 15 miles and some bad weather) to capture Moscow before winter...
...among Yugoslavia's many nationalities, which Tito has greatly subdued but not eradicated. Though claiming that "we are among the first countries in the world in rate of economic growth," Tito admitted to inadequate labor productivity and poor administration, although he dodged mentioning the falling value of the Yugoslav dinar, which in three years has gone from 750 to the dollar...