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Article: Tito: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia.
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- June 5, 1995
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Reading Richard Wests curious biography of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, I was reminded of the "true believers" who hold forth these days in front of Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow. They carry red flags and portraits of Lenin and Stalin. Their speeches compare the "optimistic" life in the former Soviet Union with the chaos now, "stable rubles" with today's inflation, full employment with the present uncertainty at every work place, peace throughout the USSR with the wars between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, Abkhazians and Georgians, Russians and Chechens, and so on and so on. History has proved that Stalin was absolutely correct, they say, in warning that democratization would bring ...