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| The usage of [[Wikipedia]] as a tool for promoting this type of propaganda is second only to Google itself. It is quite possible that this came about due to the fact that other editors and Admin are simply uneducated in these matters. This exposes a major flaw in Wikipedia which is that ''“a group of editors can learn to work the system so they can promote their own point of view, so that the article will become a stated Wiki fact, and itself a piece of history". | | The usage of [[Wikipedia]] as a tool for promoting this type of propaganda is second only to Google itself. It is quite possible that this came about due to the fact that other editors and Admin are simply uneducated in these matters. This exposes a major flaw in Wikipedia which is that ''“a group of editors can learn to work the system so they can promote their own point of view, so that the article will become a stated Wiki fact, and itself a piece of history". |
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− | Is Wikipedia taking on a darker tone? Where are the '''ethical''' & moral issues involved in creating a feel good story about Dictator Josip Broz- Tito. Encyclopaedia Britannica states:'' After the armistice the British repatriated more than 10,000 Slovene collaborators who had attempted to retreat with the Germans, and '''Tito''' had most of them massacred at the infamous Pits of Kocevje''. | + | Is Wikipedia taking on a darker tone? Where are the '''ethical''' & moral issues involved in creating a feel good story about Dictator Josip Broz- Tito. Encyclopaedia Britannica states: |
| + | * '' After the armistice the British repatriated more than 10,000 Slovene collaborators who had attempted to retreat with the Germans, and '''Tito''' had most of them massacred at the infamous Pits of Kocevje''. |
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− | Additional: The article doesn't even mention his ''Cult of Personality'' <ref>'''‘Discontents: Post-modern and Post-communist’''' by Paul Hollander:
| + | == Cult of Personality == |
− | *“Virtually every communist system extinct or surviving at one point or another, had a supreme leader who was both extraordinarily powerful and surrounded by a bizarre cult, indeed worship. In the past (or in a more traditional contemporary societies) such as cults were reserved for deities and associated with conventional religious behaviour and institutions. These cults although apparently an intrinsic part of communist dictatorships (at any rate at a stage in their evolution) are largely forgotten today.”
| + | The article doesn't even mention his ''Cult of Personality'': |
− | *“ Stalin, Maio, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Sung, Enver Hoxha, Ceascesu, Dimitrov, Ulbricht, Gottwald, '''Tito''' and others all were the object of such cults. The '''prototypical''' cult was that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Stalin] which was duplicated elsewhere with minor variations”
| + | * ''Virtually every communist system extinct or surviving at one point or another, had a supreme leader who was both extraordinarily powerful and surrounded by a bizarre cult, indeed worship. In the past (or in a more traditional contemporary societies) such as cults were reserved for deities and associated with conventional religious behaviour and institutions. These cults although apparently an intrinsic part of communist dictatorships (at any rate at a stage in their evolution) are largely forgotten today.'' |
− | Paul Hollander is an American scholar, journalist, and conservative political writer. (Ph.D in Sociology. Princeton University, 1963, B.A. London School of Economics, 1959 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Centre Associate, Davis)</ref> or that Josip Broz's and his fellow communist were committing economic suicide in the 1960's and 70's.
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− | Factual statements on economic realities of Josip Broz and his fellow Communists: | + | * ''Stalin, Maio, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Sung, Enver Hoxha, Ceascesu, Dimitrov, Ulbricht, Gottwald, '''Tito''' and others all were the object of such cults. The prototypical cult was that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Stalin] which was duplicated elsewhere with minor variations”'' |
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| + | Referenced from Paul Hollander's '''‘Discontents: Post-modern and Post-communist’''' Paul Hollander is an American scholar, journalist, and conservative political writer. (Ph.D in Sociology. Princeton University, 1963, B.A. London School of Economics, 1959 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Centre Associate, Davis) |
| + | <ref> Discontents: Post-modern and Post-communist by Paul Hollander.</ref> |
| + | ==Economic realities== |
| + | Interestedly the article does not mention that Josip Broz and his fellow communist were committing economic suicide in the 1960's and 70's.Factual statements on economic realities of Josip Broz and his fellow Communists: |
| *'''Encyclopaedia Britannica states''': "At his death, the state treasury was empty" | | *'''Encyclopaedia Britannica states''': "At his death, the state treasury was empty" |
| *'''BBC''' UK/History by Tim Judah: "The economy was built on the shaky foundations of massive western loans." | | *'''BBC''' UK/History by Tim Judah: "The economy was built on the shaky foundations of massive western loans." |