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To: ehoxha; Hoplite
>>>>you might as well be quoting Alexander Rankovic"

Milovan Djilas was interesting fella - Communist party executioner with the bloodstains on his own hands, guerilla commander, diplomat, politician, writer, pet dissident, with high sense of humor. His name is an excellent example of nomen est omen -Djilas means "defrocked priest", exactly what he became in Communist nomenclatura.

His books are treasure trove of information, if read properly. He wrote only things that will not harm him at the time of publishing - he deliberatelly chose to keep silent, until it was convenent to him to speak up.

For example, he kept his personal view of Stalin until he fell in grace with the Tito regime (and Tito's regime already fell in grace with Stalin) so there was no personal harm to him, only personal gain by sellilng the book (Conversations with Stalin). He enjoyed the privileges and loot like other criminals from Tito's inner circle but chose to speak openly ("The New Class") only when he was kicked out.

In 1977, Djilas was Tito's pet dissident (real ones were murdered or languished in jails or mental institutions) with an income comming from the West from the lectures and publishing rights. At the same time, Tito was American pet dictator in the Eastern Europe.

It is higly unlikely that Djilas in 1977 did not know about Koca Popovic requests for bombing of Serbian towns. It is more likely that he chose what to remember. Today, we have documents from Serbian archives (there must be papertrail in U.S. archives as well) to show how selective Comrade Djilas memory was.

Btw. Koca Popovic, surrealist writer, must have a thrill of his life watching American White Star raining hell on Serbia, on behalf of Red Star. Capitalism in the service of Communism (or vice versa).

72 posted on 10/01/2004 6:09:45 AM PDT by DTA (Proud Pajamista)
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To: DTA
DTA:

Why should I care what you say?

You've demonstrated that you're all about making your facts up and then refusing to face reality when called to account.

In short, your opinion doesn't matter.

Happy Easter.

73 posted on 10/01/2004 11:54:52 AM PDT by Hoplite
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