Hello Hari, You did not understand my comment. 1. I didn't talk about Tito. I just mention him to define the period when Yugoslavia had direct experience with Stalinism. Tito somehow stayed Stalinist all his life. He tried something different in Yugoslavia after the conflict with Stalin, but he never gave up on Stalinist thinking and did not allow the workers to move away from the control of the communist party that he controlled. Again from Milan Kangrga "Whoever says that "our socialism" ( socialism in Yugoslavia) was socialism is very mistaken. We did not have socialism. I have written about it until it comes out of my nose, but no one will listen. There was neither socialism nor communism anywhere in the world, least of all Marx's. It was Stalinism that lasted an entire epoch." 2. You are right that being from Yugoslavia does not mean that I have better knowledge about something. It means only that we have life experience with stalinism not just theoretically.
3. What is nature of Stalinism under Stalin: "During Stalin's great purge of 1937-1939, almost the entire previous leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia was shot in Moscow, after which Josip Broz took over the leadership. Milan Gorkić, general secretary of the KPJ Central Committee, Tito's predecessor and one of the many victims of Stalin's purges. The scale of the Stalinist purge in the KPJ was monstrous. Of about 900 Yugoslav communists in the USSR, at least 800 were arrested, of which only about 40 survived the Soviet gulags.[1] It is estimated that during the Great Purge, around 600[2]-700[3] members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia were killed, including a large number of founders and almost the entire previous leadership.[2][4] In Moscow, all the previous general secretaries of the KPJ were shot: Filip Filipović, Sima Marković, Đuro Cvijić, Jovan Mališić and the current Milan Gorkić, except for Triša Kaclerović, who retired from politics in time. In addition, two SKOJ secretaries (Nikola Kotur and Grgur Vujović), as well as a large number of KPJ leaders, Central Committee and Politburo members, were also shot.[2] >From the very beginning, the leadership of the KPJ strongly supported Stalin's >purges, although it later suffered heavily in them.[5] The example of KPJ >general secretary Milan Gorkić, who glorified the Moscow trials and Stalin's >shooting of "spies-traitors" without pardon, is particularly vivid.[6] In >1937, he was invited to Moscow, where he was arrested, convicted as a Gestapo >spy and shot.," -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34301): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34301 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110224367/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
