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Robert Tatman wrote:
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> The Yugoslavian resistance to the German occupation was split between the
> royalist Chetniks and Tito's Communists. Needless to say, the U.S. and British
> supported the Chetniks; the Soviet Union supported Tito. Tito won out, and the
> Kingdom of Yugoslavia became the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Tito went on
> to position himself as a "non-aligned" leader, ideologically a pragmatic
> socialist but also a firm Serbian nationalist. His intention seems to have
> been to expand to control all of the Balkans, from the Danube to the Aegean
> and the Black Sea, in a kind of Greater Serbia. In the event, what he
> succeeded in doing was to create a highly cohesive and at least superficially
> successful third way between Soviet Marxism-Leninism and Western Democratic
> Capitalism. Yugoslavia *was* united, as long as Tito ruled in Belgrade.
>
I was told by two guys from Yugoslavia, both having left in the mid
to late fifties, that the real Tito had been killed by the Germans
during WW2 and that the KGB substituted a Russian. One claimed that he
had heard that he was killed by someone who had been there and said that
in the years just after the war "Tito" never made any speeches in
Croatian since he claimed to have forgotten the language during his
years in Russia. One of these guys was Croatian, the other Dalmatian.
They said that they had known of this independently during their years
in Yugoslavia, where they did not know each other. I have talked to
other more recent immigrants from Yugoslavia and none of them had heard
the story, except one who said that his father had heard this while in
the army, but thought it was a false rumor. Anyone ever heard of this?
The Croatian guy said that when the rumors got going after the war that
they brought Tito to his old mother to dispel the rumors. He claims that
she recognized him as not being the true Tito because he lacked a sixth
finger birth defect.
Howard Davis
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