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Article: Tales of 2 titans // A former top Yugoslav communist reminisces about Stalin, Tito
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 5, 1987
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If communist Yugoslavia wanted to impress Israel and through it
the rest of the Western world with its ideological independence, it
could not have chosen a more impressive representative than Milovan
Djilas.
A wartime leader of the anti-Nazi partisans who served as the
charismatic Marshall Tito's closest aide and a post-war vice
president of his multi-national country, Mr. Djilas was one of the
first prophets of "communism with a human face."
But he paid for his idealism and intellectual independence by
serving two prison terms - first, in 1953, for openly criticizing the
way in which communist theories were being implemented by Tito and
then, in 1956, for supporting the Hungarian ...