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* The post-World War II Yugoslavia was in many respects a model of how to build a multinational state.

* ''The post-World War II Yugoslavia was in many respects a model of how to build a multinational state.''

* The ethnic violence was only ended  when the multiethnic Yugoslav Partisans took over the country at the end of the war and banned nationalism from being publicly promoted.}}

* ''The ethnic violence was only ended  when the multiethnic Yugoslav Partisans took over the country at the end of the war and banned nationalism from being publicly promoted''.}}

====European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" ====

====European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" ====

Totalitarian machines:  

Totalitarian machines:  

Let us mention briefly Fascism, National Socialism and''' Titoism''' in Italy, Austria and Slovenia. Three Christian nations, with nationalist tendencies, were infected with totalitarianism. The descent into barbarism has comparable structural elements:'' <ref>[http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"] Reports and proceedings of the 8 April European public hearing on “Crimes committed  

''Let us mention briefly Fascism, National Socialism and''' Titoism''' in Italy, Austria and Slovenia. Three Christian nations, with nationalist tendencies, were infected with totalitarianism. The descent into barbarism has comparable structural elements:'' <ref>[http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"] Reports and proceedings of the 8 April European public hearing on “Crimes committed  

by totalitarian regimes”, organised by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of  

by totalitarian regimes”, organised by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of  

the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the European Commission.  

the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the European Commission.  

*Property was confiscated, inhabitants were expelled from Slovenia/Yugoslavia and their residences, political and show trials were carried out, religion was repressed and the Catholic Church and its clergy were persecuted. At the beginning of the 1950s, Communist rule in Slovenia abandoned these forms of repression but was ready to reapply them if it felt threatened.  

*Property was confiscated, inhabitants were expelled from Slovenia/Yugoslavia and their residences, political and show trials were carried out, religion was repressed and the Catholic Church and its clergy were persecuted. At the beginning of the 1950s, Communist rule in Slovenia abandoned these forms of repression but was ready to reapply them if it felt threatened.  

*Thus the regime set up political and show trials against certain more visible opponents later. In the case of an “emergency situation”, even the establishment of concentration camps was planned in Slovenia in 1968, where around 1,000 persons, of whom 10 % were women, would be interned for political reasons''. '''Page 161'''

*Thus the regime set up political and show trials against certain more visible opponents later. In the case of an “emergency situation”, even the establishment of concentration camps was planned in Slovenia in 1968, where around 1,000 persons, of whom 10 % were women, would be interned for political reasons''. Page 161.</ref>

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*Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects;

*Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects;

*Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. (page 197.)}}

*Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. (page 197.)}}

Note: '''Titoism''' are political ideologies and government policies that dominated the history of the former Yugoslavia. Titoism as a ideology emerged after the Tito and Stalin split and was named after''' Josip Broz Tito'''.   

'''Note''': '''Titoism''' are political ideologies and government policies that dominated the history of the former Yugoslavia. Titoism as a ideology emerged after the Tito and Stalin split and was named after Josip Broz Tito.   

The Reforms in Yugoslavia After 1948 ''by'' Fred Warner Neal. Page 214. Second chapter:<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4t5gBayTeDQC&pg=PA214&dq=Yugoslavia+Totalitarian+state&hl=en&ei=CJ_eS7HuF8uLkAXJxd3PBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=Yugoslavia%20Totalitarian%20state&f=false Titoism in Action: The Reforms in Yugoslavia After 1948] ''by'' Fred Warner Neal.</ref>  

The Reforms in Yugoslavia After 1948 ''by'' Fred Warner Neal. Page 214. Second chapter:<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4t5gBayTeDQC&pg=PA214&dq=Yugoslavia+Totalitarian+state&hl=en&ei=CJ_eS7HuF8uLkAXJxd3PBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=Yugoslavia%20Totalitarian%20state&f=false Titoism in Action: The Reforms in Yugoslavia After 1948] ''by'' Fred Warner Neal.</ref>  

{{Cquote|In a totalitarian state,<ref> '''Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy''' by Carl Joachim Friedrich & Zbigniew Brzezinski: Characteristics of a totalitarian regime; a total ideology, a single mass party, a terrorist secret police, a monopoly of mass communication, all instruments to wage combat are in the control of the same hands, and a centrally directed planned economy. Totalitarian dictatorships emerge after the seizure of power by the leaders of a movement who have developed support for an ideology. The point when the government becomes totalitarian is when the leadership uses open and legal violence to maintain its control. The dictator demands unanimous devotion from the people and often uses a real or imaginary enemy to create a threat so the people rally around him.</ref> personal freedom and human rights invariably most at the hands of unrestrianed police activity. That Yugoslavia was no exception was admitted by  [[Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia#Aleksandar Rankovic|Aleksandar Rankovic]], himself head of secret police or State Security Administration. This organization is known in Yugoslavia as UDBA.}}

{{Cquote|''In a totalitarian state,<ref> '''Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy''' by Carl Joachim Friedrich & Zbigniew Brzezinski: Characteristics of a totalitarian regime; a total ideology, a single mass party, a terrorist secret police, a monopoly of mass communication, all instruments to wage combat are in the control of the same hands, and a centrally directed planned economy. Totalitarian dictatorships emerge after the seizure of power by the leaders of a movement who have developed support for an ideology. The point when the government becomes totalitarian is when the leadership uses open and legal violence to maintain its control. The dictator demands unanimous devotion from the people and often uses a real or imaginary enemy to create a threat so the people rally around him.</ref> personal freedom and human rights invariably most at the hands of unrestrianed police activity. That Yugoslavia was no exception was admitted by  [[Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia#Aleksandar Rankovic|Aleksandar Rankovic]], himself head of secret police or State Security Administration. This organization is known in Yugoslavia as UDBA''.}}

== Cult of Personality ==

== Cult of Personality ==

*''Self-management as system was only slightly more efficient than the Soviet model. It was '''bureaucratised and cumbersome''' and could not compete with Western economies. People could obtain so much free or for less than the market price (e.g. apartments) that they could be '''obtain without work'''. All this made the settling of accounts in the 1980s and in the post-socialist age more difficult.''

*''Self-management as system was only slightly more efficient than the Soviet model. It was '''bureaucratised and cumbersome''' and could not compete with Western economies. People could obtain so much free or for less than the market price (e.g. apartments) that they could be '''obtain without work'''. All this made the settling of accounts in the 1980s and in the post-socialist age more difficult.''

*''In Tito’s system no interest or ideas could be expressed in a truly democratic way. This did most harm where feelings of ethnic identity were concerned because their suppression led to growth of extreme nationalism. Furthermore, the '''economic failure''' of Tito’s system, most clearly expressed in the protracted crisis of the 1980s, left people who even if they were not poor, were disillusioned and open to manipulation by demagogues. Finally Tito’s practical solutions ensured that he would retain unlimited power during his life time, but foreshadowed the problems would come after his death.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pSxJdE4MYo4C&pg=PA187&dq=Ivo+Goldstein++Tito&hl=en&ei=ighBTLC6M8Srcb_9uaQP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20economic%20failure%20of%20Tito’s%20system&f=false Croatia: A History] by Ivo Goldstein</ref>}}

*''In Tito’s system no interest or ideas could be expressed in a truly democratic way. This did most harm where feelings of ethnic identity were concerned because their suppression led to growth of extreme nationalism. Furthermore, the '''economic failure''' of '''Tito’s system''', most clearly expressed in the protracted crisis of the 1980s, left people who even if they were not poor, were disillusioned and open to manipulation by demagogues. Finally Tito’s practical solutions ensured that he would retain unlimited power during his life time, but foreshadowed the problems would come after his death.'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pSxJdE4MYo4C&pg=PA187&dq=Ivo+Goldstein++Tito&hl=en&ei=ighBTLC6M8Srcb_9uaQP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20economic%20failure%20of%20Tito’s%20system&f=false Croatia: A History] by Ivo Goldstein</ref>}}

'''Note''': Ivo Goldstein is a Professor at the  [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb] & former Director of the Institute for Croatian History of the University of Zagreb. Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia.

'''Note''': Ivo Goldstein is a Professor at the  [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb] & former Director of the Institute for Croatian History of the University of Zagreb. Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia.

'''c.''' Yet Tito, internationally feted unifier of Yugoslavia, wrought violence on many fronts. His purges were merciless, and his forces rounded up thousands of suspected opponents and sent them to a prison on Goli Otok (Barren Island) where they were beaten, tortured and killed.}}

'''c.''' Yet Tito, internationally feted unifier of Yugoslavia, wrought violence on many fronts. His purges were merciless, and his forces rounded up thousands of suspected opponents and sent them to a prison on Goli Otok (Barren Island) where they were beaten, tortured and killed.}}

== See also ==

== See also ==

* [[Top 10 Reasons Not to Donate to Wikipedia]]

* [[Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!]]

* [[Criticism of Jimmy Wales]]

* [[Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia]]

* [[Bleiburg Massacre and Wikipedia]]

* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View|The Wikipedia Point of View]]

* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View|The Wikipedia Point of View]]

* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikipedia & Political Agendas|The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikipedia & Political Agendas]]

* [[Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikipedia & Political Agendas|The Wikipedia Point of View/Wikipedia & Political Agendas]]

* [[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas| History of the Balkan states]]

* [[User talk:Ockham/Wikipedia & Political Agendas| History of the Balkan states]]

* [[Titoism and Totalitarianism]]

* [[Titoism and Totalitarianism]]

==References==

==References==

[[Keyword:=Communist Yugoslavia]]

[[Keyword:=Communist Yugoslavia]]

[[Keyword:=The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists]]

[[Keyword:=The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists]]

[[Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia::Josip Broz Tito]]

[[Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia::Josip Broz Tito]]

[[Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia::Titoism]]

[[Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia::Titoism]]

[[Josip Broz Tito::worst of Wikipedia]]

[[Josip Broz Tito::worst of Wikipedia]]

[[Josip Broz Tito::The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists]]

[[Josip Broz Tito::The Wikipedia Point of View/Activists]]

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