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| The Yugoslav Communist state propaganda machine shared much with the Soviet Union. The Soviet format was imposed and then slightly modified. Tito's cult of personality was no different. <ref> '''Discontents: Post-modern and Post communist’ by Paul Hollander. | | The Yugoslav Communist state propaganda machine shared much with the Soviet Union. The Soviet format was imposed and then slightly modified. Tito's cult of personality was no different. <ref> '''Discontents: Post-modern and Post communist’ by Paul Hollander. |
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| Josip Broz’s images, monuments, town names and street names are being removed. This started after the fall of the Berlin Wall and after the break up of Yugoslavia. | | Josip Broz’s images, monuments, town names and street names are being removed. This started after the fall of the Berlin Wall and after the break up of Yugoslavia. |
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− | == Ethnic cleansing, Post-World War Two Camps & Communist Concentration Camps== | + | == Ethnic cleansing, Post-World War Two Camps & Communist Concentration Camps in Yugoslavia== |
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| Ethnic cleansing of [[Directory:Germany|Germans]] <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mqFyQhi5FFAC&pg=PA181&dq=Ethnic+cleansing+of+Germans,+Hungarians+and+Italians+Yugoslavia&hl=en&ei=VqqmTNSYAoPmvQOChdnnDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Ethnic%20cleansing%20of%20Germans%2C%20Hungarians%20and%20Italians%20Yugoslavia&f=false Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses] by Karl Cordell & Stefan Wolff (p181)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t30IGBzlvOwC&pg=PR16&dq=Josip+Broz+Tito+committed+mass+murders&hl=en&ei=yZZnTdKJLoGmvgOI-Nz9DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Taken: A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity] by Kathryn Schaeffer Pabst & Douglas Schaeffer Pabst (p16)</ref> and [[Italy|Italians]] (Foibe massacres),<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5s-Iqn0YxnQC&pg=PA77&dq=Foibe+massacres&hl=en&ei=Tps9Tb6wNY35cbTZmYUH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=Foibe%20massacres&f=false The Frontiers of Europe] ''by'' Malcolm Anderson & Eberhard Bort (p77)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=da6acnbbEpAC&pg=PA155&dq=History+in+Exile:+Memory+and+Identity+at+the+Borders+of+the+Balkans++++++++++Foibe+massacres+the+Balkans&hl=en&ei=THOSTemTF8X4cZfDuIkH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false History in Exile:] Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger (p155)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ykMVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA136&dq=Foibe+massacres+Refugees+in+the+Age+of+Total+War+by+Anna+Bramwell&hl=en&ei=pApCTdDhCIa8cKvn6d0N&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Refugees in the Age of Total War] by Anna Bramwell (p136, ''read '''Zara'''''-p137)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hhD0R8DBr_UC&pg=PR12&dq=A+tragedy+revealed:+the+story+of+the+Italian+population+of+Istria,+Dalmatia+Foibe+massacres&hl=en&ei=PJI9TZ6vMoP5cb3LlIYH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false A Tragedy Revealed''] The Story of the Italian Population of Istria & Dalmatia by Arrigo Petacco. (p12 & [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hhD0R8DBr_UC&pg=PA81&dq=A+tragedy+revealed+Zadra&hl=en&ei=_1BjTfX8HIamugPH9r28Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''read ''page 81] '''Zadar'''/Zara)</ref><ref>[http://miran.pecenik.com/ts/balkan/balkan6.htm Where the Balkans Begin (The Slovenes in Triest-The Foiba Story)] by Bernard Meares: | | Ethnic cleansing of [[Directory:Germany|Germans]] <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mqFyQhi5FFAC&pg=PA181&dq=Ethnic+cleansing+of+Germans,+Hungarians+and+Italians+Yugoslavia&hl=en&ei=VqqmTNSYAoPmvQOChdnnDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Ethnic%20cleansing%20of%20Germans%2C%20Hungarians%20and%20Italians%20Yugoslavia&f=false Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses] by Karl Cordell & Stefan Wolff (p181)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t30IGBzlvOwC&pg=PR16&dq=Josip+Broz+Tito+committed+mass+murders&hl=en&ei=yZZnTdKJLoGmvgOI-Nz9DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Taken: A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity] by Kathryn Schaeffer Pabst & Douglas Schaeffer Pabst (p16)</ref> and [[Italy|Italians]] (Foibe massacres),<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5s-Iqn0YxnQC&pg=PA77&dq=Foibe+massacres&hl=en&ei=Tps9Tb6wNY35cbTZmYUH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=Foibe%20massacres&f=false The Frontiers of Europe] ''by'' Malcolm Anderson & Eberhard Bort (p77)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=da6acnbbEpAC&pg=PA155&dq=History+in+Exile:+Memory+and+Identity+at+the+Borders+of+the+Balkans++++++++++Foibe+massacres+the+Balkans&hl=en&ei=THOSTemTF8X4cZfDuIkH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false History in Exile:] Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger (p155)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ykMVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA136&dq=Foibe+massacres+Refugees+in+the+Age+of+Total+War+by+Anna+Bramwell&hl=en&ei=pApCTdDhCIa8cKvn6d0N&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Refugees in the Age of Total War] by Anna Bramwell (p136, ''read '''Zara'''''-p137)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hhD0R8DBr_UC&pg=PR12&dq=A+tragedy+revealed:+the+story+of+the+Italian+population+of+Istria,+Dalmatia+Foibe+massacres&hl=en&ei=PJI9TZ6vMoP5cb3LlIYH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false A Tragedy Revealed''] The Story of the Italian Population of Istria & Dalmatia by Arrigo Petacco. (p12 & [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hhD0R8DBr_UC&pg=PA81&dq=A+tragedy+revealed+Zadra&hl=en&ei=_1BjTfX8HIamugPH9r28Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''read ''page 81] '''Zadar'''/Zara)</ref><ref>[http://miran.pecenik.com/ts/balkan/balkan6.htm Where the Balkans Begin (The Slovenes in Triest-The Foiba Story)] by Bernard Meares: |
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| * "Two hundred years later that, is, early in the tenth century you might have heard Slavish and [[Latin]] spoken had you walked in the streets of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), just as you hear Slavish and '''Italian''' today; for as times of peace followed times of war, the Greek and Roman inhabitants of Rausium intermarried with the surrounding Slavs, and so a mixed race sprang up, a people apart from the rest of Dalmatia"</ref> this was no longer the case after 1945/46. In 1946 the Yugoslav Camps <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"] | | * "Two hundred years later that, is, early in the tenth century you might have heard Slavish and [[Latin]] spoken had you walked in the streets of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), just as you hear Slavish and '''Italian''' today; for as times of peace followed times of war, the Greek and Roman inhabitants of Rausium intermarried with the surrounding Slavs, and so a mixed race sprang up, a people apart from the rest of Dalmatia"</ref> this was no longer the case after 1945/46. In 1946 the Yugoslav Camps <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"] |
| Milko Mikola: COMMUNIST CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND LABOUR CAMPS IN SLOVENIA (p154) | | Milko Mikola: COMMUNIST CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND LABOUR CAMPS IN SLOVENIA (p154) |
− | </ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=f1YIUo9wzSUC&pg=PA202&dq=%5E+Justice+in+Eastern+Europe+and+the+Former+Soviet+Union+Tito's+UDBA&hl=en&ei=cu2mTLe5JIOSuwPZorCADQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union] by Lavinia Stan. Chapter 9. (p201,p202)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Frgm5QodnFoC&pg=PA252&dq=contraction+camps+communism+yugoslavia+tito&hl=en&ei=4_SlTIeKLpCmvQPHpaH1DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q&f=false Comrades- A History of World Communism] by Robert Service (p252)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FTw3lEqi2-oC&pg=PA159&dq=Yugoslav+communist+run+concentration+camps+Slovenia+1945&hl=en&ei=79mmTLSTMYHCvQOU8IXoDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Yugoslav%20communist%20run%20concentration%20camps%20Slovenia%201945&f=false The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005] by Sabrina P. Ramet (p159)</ref> held 117 485 folksdojcera (58 821 women, 32 214 men & 24 422 children).<ref>[http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:Xmg34OucoOoJ:scholar.google.com/++RESEARCH+OF+THE+PROBLEM+OF+BLEIBURG+AND+WAY+OF+THE+CROSS+++ZDRAVKO+DIZDAR+djeca+logor&hl=en&as_sdt=2000 Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia by Mr Dizdar's''' Scientific Journal''' - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross.]'''pdf page 66'''/Document page 182.</ref> '' | + | </ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=f1YIUo9wzSUC&pg=PA202&dq=%5E+Justice+in+Eastern+Europe+and+the+Former+Soviet+Union+Tito's+UDBA&hl=en&ei=cu2mTLe5JIOSuwPZorCADQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union] by Lavinia Stan. Chapter 9. (p201,p202)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Frgm5QodnFoC&pg=PA252&dq=contraction+camps+communism+yugoslavia+tito&hl=en&ei=4_SlTIeKLpCmvQPHpaH1DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q&f=false Comrades- A History of World Communism] by Robert Service (p252)</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FTw3lEqi2-oC&pg=PA159&dq=Yugoslav+communist+run+concentration+camps+Slovenia+1945&hl=en&ei=79mmTLSTMYHCvQOU8IXoDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Yugoslav%20communist%20run%20concentration%20camps%20Slovenia%201945&f=false The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005] by Sabrina P. Ramet (p159)</ref> held 117 485 folksdojcera (58 821 women, 32 214 men & 24 422 children).<ref>[http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:Xmg34OucoOoJ:scholar.google.com/++RESEARCH+OF+THE+PROBLEM+OF+BLEIBURG+AND+WAY+OF+THE+CROSS+++ZDRAVKO+DIZDAR+djeca+logor&hl=en&as_sdt=2000 Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia by Mr Dizdar's''' Scientific Journal''' - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross.]'''pdf page 66'''/Document page 182. The Scientific Journal is in Croatian: ''Z. Dizdar: PRILOG ISTRAŽIVANJU PROBLEMA BLEIBURGA I KRIŽNIH PUTOVA (U POVODU 60. OBLJETNICE): Hrvatski institut za povijest HR 10000 Zagreb, Izvorni znanstveni članak Ur.: 2005-12-15 pdf str. 66/dokument str. 182''</ref> '' |
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| *'''Note D.''' Below referenced information from European Public Hearing on: “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes". The European Public Hearing was organised by the [[Slovenia|Slovenian Presidency]] of the Council of the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the European Commission. | | *'''Note D.''' Below referenced information from European Public Hearing on: “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes". The European Public Hearing was organised by the [[Slovenia|Slovenian Presidency]] of the Council of the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the European Commission. |
− | ====Survey of concentration camps in Slovenia-Yugoslavia in 1945==== | + | ====Survey of concentration camps in Yugoslavia (Slovenia) in 1945==== |
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− | Concentration camps for members of the [[Germany|German]] national minority | + | Concentration camps for members of the [[Germany|German]] national minority: |
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| * Strnisce near Ptuj | | * Strnisce near Ptuj |
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− | Concentration camps for members of the [[Hungary|Hungarians]] national minority | + | Concentration camps for members of the [[Hungary|Hungarians]] national minority: |
| * Filovci in Prekmurje | | * Filovci in Prekmurje |
| * Hrastovec near Sv. Lenart in Slovenske Gorice | | * Hrastovec near Sv. Lenart in Slovenske Gorice |
| * Strnišče near Ptuj | | * Strnišče near Ptuj |
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− | Concentration camps for members of the Slovenian Home-Guard | + | Concentration camps for members of the Slovenian Home-Guard: |
| * Teharje near Celje | | * Teharje near Celje |
| * Skofovi zavodi in St. Vid nad Ljubljano | | * Skofovi zavodi in St. Vid nad Ljubljano |
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| * "Murder, rape and mass executions were all too common in Yugoslavia during World War Two - carried out by '''Partisan fighters''' as well as by Chetnik rebels and German troops." [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml ''Link'']</ref><ref>[http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/yugoslav-hist1.htm Yalta and The Bleiburg Tragedy] by C Michael McAdams/University of San Francisco, California-[[USA]]. Presented at the International Symposium for Investigation of the Bleiburg Tragedy Zagreb, Croatia and Bleiburg, Austria May 17 and 18, 1994.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vkpLh-XBcG0C&pg=PA29&dq=mass+killings+by+josip+broz+tito+croatia&hl=en&ei=JXXKS5WqCo7U7AP76o30Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false Croatians: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases] by Inc Icon Group International</ref> | | * "Murder, rape and mass executions were all too common in Yugoslavia during World War Two - carried out by '''Partisan fighters''' as well as by Chetnik rebels and German troops." [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/partisan_fighters_01.shtml ''Link'']</ref><ref>[http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/yugoslav-hist1.htm Yalta and The Bleiburg Tragedy] by C Michael McAdams/University of San Francisco, California-[[USA]]. Presented at the International Symposium for Investigation of the Bleiburg Tragedy Zagreb, Croatia and Bleiburg, Austria May 17 and 18, 1994.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vkpLh-XBcG0C&pg=PA29&dq=mass+killings+by+josip+broz+tito+croatia&hl=en&ei=JXXKS5WqCo7U7AP76o30Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false Croatians: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases] by Inc Icon Group International</ref> |
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− | === Goli Otok ===
| + | == Goli Otok-Prison Gulag of Yugoslavia== |
| Goli Otok (Barren Island), a notorious prison gulag on the Croatian coast (former Yugoslavia’s Gulag). [[Directory:Austria|Austro]]-Hungarian government set up the prison during [[World War I|World War One]]. | | Goli Otok (Barren Island), a notorious prison gulag on the Croatian coast (former Yugoslavia’s Gulag). [[Directory:Austria|Austro]]-Hungarian government set up the prison during [[World War I|World War One]]. |
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| '''Assassinations''' and ''purges'' were organised to eliminate individuals who were deemed anti-Yugoslavian or who were publicly critical of communism in Yugoslavia. Noted victims are Bruno Busic, Stjepan Djurekovic and Andrija Hebrang. <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=B7dIAAAAYAAJ&q=Bruno+Busic+Assassination&dq=Bruno+Busic+Assassination&hl=en&ei=CgbVS83-KdCTkAX_ruWQDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA Assassinations Commissioned by Belgrade: Documentation about the Belgrade] by Hans Peter Rullmann (p62,p71)</ref><ref>'''Amnesty International''' Report, 1984 by Amnesty International. In July Stjepan Djurekovic, a Croatian emigre was shot dead, near Munich in [[Germany]]. Amnesty International received allegations that he had been killed by agents of the Yugoslav state security police.</ref> Additionally historian Kerubin Segvic was executed mainly for proposing a different historic model than that of Communist Yugoslav state policies of Croatians arriving in the Western Balkans.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6UbOtJcF8rQC&pg=PA20&dq=Kerubin+Segvic+Becoming+Slav,+Becoming+Croat:+Identity+Transformations+in+Post-Roman&hl=en&ei=ITrwTP7nLsW3cO_RwJYK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat:] Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia by Danijel Dzino (p20)</ref> | | '''Assassinations''' and ''purges'' were organised to eliminate individuals who were deemed anti-Yugoslavian or who were publicly critical of communism in Yugoslavia. Noted victims are Bruno Busic, Stjepan Djurekovic and Andrija Hebrang. <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=B7dIAAAAYAAJ&q=Bruno+Busic+Assassination&dq=Bruno+Busic+Assassination&hl=en&ei=CgbVS83-KdCTkAX_ruWQDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA Assassinations Commissioned by Belgrade: Documentation about the Belgrade] by Hans Peter Rullmann (p62,p71)</ref><ref>'''Amnesty International''' Report, 1984 by Amnesty International. In July Stjepan Djurekovic, a Croatian emigre was shot dead, near Munich in [[Germany]]. Amnesty International received allegations that he had been killed by agents of the Yugoslav state security police.</ref> Additionally historian Kerubin Segvic was executed mainly for proposing a different historic model than that of Communist Yugoslav state policies of Croatians arriving in the Western Balkans.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6UbOtJcF8rQC&pg=PA20&dq=Kerubin+Segvic+Becoming+Slav,+Becoming+Croat:+Identity+Transformations+in+Post-Roman&hl=en&ei=ITrwTP7nLsW3cO_RwJYK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Becoming Slav, Becoming Croat:] Identity Transformations in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Dalmatia by Danijel Dzino (p20)</ref> |
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− | === British Government representative === | + | '''Franjo Tudman''' who was the first President of [[Croatia]], was sentenced to prison for his political activities in the former Yugoslavia. <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GPQKYuWisi0C&pg=PA111&dq=Franjo+Tudman+imprisoned&hl=en&ei=NRnVS_-iOo-gkQXbmJGPDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Franjo%20Tudman%20imprisoned&f=false The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia ] by Carole Rogel (p111)</ref> '''Janez Jansa''' the Prime Minister of [[Slovenia]] was sentenced to prison for his political activities in the former Yugoslavia. Milovan Djilas a prominent Yugoslav Communist politician, latter theorist and author was imprisoned by the Yugoslav Government for being critical of the regime.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GkBmdCwHuDsC&pg=PA94&dq=Dilas+purges&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Dilas%20purges&f=false The Road to War in Serbia:] Trauma and Catharsis by Nebojsa Popov & Drinka Gojkovic (p94)</ref> |
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| + | ==== Aleksandar Rankovic ==== |
| + | Aleksandar Rankovic, the Interior Minister and the head of the military and secret police of Yugoslavia at a Belgrade meeting stated: {{Cquote|''Through our prisons has passed between 1945 and 1951 3 777 776 prisoners, while we killed 586 000 enemies of the people.'' Taken from ''Politik''a, Belgrade/1 February 1951 (p.1) <ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7laAd_LLA6YJ:www.hic.hr/images/komunisticke-zlocinci-nisu-antifasizma.pdf+Zločina+počinjenih+od+strane+totalitarnih+režima+su+izvješća+i+postupak+Europske+javne+rasprave+u+organizaciji+slovenskog+predsjedništva+Vijeća&cd=4&hl=hr&ct=clnk&lr=lang_hr&source=www.google.com Communist Crime is not Antifascism] Relaesed on International Human Rights Day, 10 DECEMBER 2008. On behalf of the participants in public meetings Maja Runje, a member of the Steering Committee- Zagreb (p. 19). Article is in Croatian: ''KOMUNISTIČKI ZLOČINI NISU ANTIFAŠIZAM] POVODOM MEĐUNARODNOG DANA LJUDSKIH PRAVA,10. PROSINCA 2008. U ime sudionika javnog okupljanja Maja Runje, članica Koordinacijskog odbora Kruga za trg10 000 Zagreb, Jurjevska 47a (str. 19)'' </ref>}} |
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| *Frank Waddams a British Government representative who had lived outside of Belgrade, said: | | *Frank Waddams a British Government representative who had lived outside of Belgrade, said: |
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| On the 23rd of April in 1948, in a speech [[Directory:Harry S. Truman|Harry Truman]] (the President of [[USA]]) stated: | | On the 23rd of April in 1948, in a speech [[Directory:Harry S. Truman|Harry Truman]] (the President of [[USA]]) stated: |
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| {{Cquote|''I am told that Tito murdered more than 400 000 of the opposition in Yugoslavia before he got himself established there as a dictator.''<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Xkv7ym8hDYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keeping+Tito+Afloat:+The+United+States,+Yugoslavia,+and+the+Cold+War&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20trade%20papers%20four%20hundred%20thousand&f=false Keeping Tito Afloat] by Lorraine M. Lees: | | {{Cquote|''I am told that Tito murdered more than 400 000 of the opposition in Yugoslavia before he got himself established there as a dictator.''<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Xkv7ym8hDYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keeping+Tito+Afloat:+The+United+States,+Yugoslavia,+and+the+Cold+War&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20trade%20papers%20four%20hundred%20thousand&f=false Keeping Tito Afloat] by Lorraine M. Lees: |
| * "Tito Afloat draws upon newly '''declassified documents''' to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in [[USA|U.S. foreign]] policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the [[United States]] considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to "keep Tito afloat" by giving him military and economic aid." (p47)</ref>}} | | * "Tito Afloat draws upon newly '''declassified documents''' to show the critical role that Yugoslavia played in [[USA|U.S. foreign]] policy with the communist world in the early years of the Cold War. After World War II, the [[United States]] considered Yugoslavia to be a loyal Soviet satellite, but Tito surprised the West in 1948 by breaking with Stalin. Seizing this opportunity, the Truman administration sought to "keep Tito afloat" by giving him military and economic aid." (p47)</ref>}} |
− | ====Franjo Tudman, Janez Jansa and Milovan Djilas ====
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− | '''Franjo Tudman''' who was the first President of Croatia, was sentenced to prison for his political activities in the former Yugoslavia. <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GPQKYuWisi0C&pg=PA111&dq=Franjo+Tudman+imprisoned&hl=en&ei=NRnVS_-iOo-gkQXbmJGPDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Franjo%20Tudman%20imprisoned&f=false The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the War in Bosnia ] by Carole Rogel (p111)</ref> '''Janez Jansa''' the Prime Minister of [[Slovenia]] was sentenced to prison for his political activities in the former Yugoslavia. Milovan Djilas a prominent Yugoslav Communist politician, latter theorist and author was imprisoned by the Yugoslav Government for being critical of the regime.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GkBmdCwHuDsC&pg=PA94&dq=Dilas+purges&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Dilas%20purges&f=false The Road to War in Serbia:] Trauma and Catharsis by Nebojsa Popov & Drinka Gojkovic (p94)</ref>
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− | ==European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" == | |
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| Reports and proceedings of the 8th of April European public hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”,<ref>[http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer] Responding to post-Second World War totalitarian crimes in Slovenia | | Reports and proceedings of the 8th of April European public hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”,<ref>[http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer] Responding to post-Second World War totalitarian crimes in Slovenia |
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| *"The '''Commission''' is independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws, which it presents to the European Parliament and the Council. It is also the EU’s executive arm – in other words, it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council. That means managing the day-to-day business of the [[European Union]]: implementing its policies, running its programmes and spending its funds. Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties."</ref> stated the following: | | *"The '''Commission''' is independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. It drafts proposals for new European laws, which it presents to the European Parliament and the Council. It is also the EU’s executive arm – in other words, it is responsible for implementing the decisions of Parliament and the Council. That means managing the day-to-day business of the [[European Union]]: implementing its policies, running its programmes and spending its funds. Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties."</ref> stated the following: |
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− | {{Cquote|'''(a)'''Totalitarian machines: | + | {{Cquote|'''(a)''' Totalitarian machines: |
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| ''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 |
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| *State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic human rights; | | *State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic human rights; |
| *Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. (page 197)}} | | *Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. (page 197)}} |
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| {{Cquote|'''(b)''' Mass killings without court trials:<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qMZaPjrHqYYC&pg=PA283&dq=josip+broz+tito&hl=en&ei=BGf-S66gBMWrcc3wnZcK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=josip%20broz%20tito&f=false Balkan Strongmen:] Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe ''by'' Bernd Jurgen Fischer. (p283)</ref> | | {{Cquote|'''(b)''' Mass killings without court trials:<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qMZaPjrHqYYC&pg=PA283&dq=josip+broz+tito&hl=en&ei=BGf-S66gBMWrcc3wnZcK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=josip%20broz%20tito&f=false Balkan Strongmen:] Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe ''by'' Bernd Jurgen Fischer. (p283)</ref> |
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| {{Cquote|'''(c)''' ''Mystifying the crimes of the occupiers, Titoism covered its own crimes. The taboo to hide the crimes of Titoism was meant to conceal the War-time and post-War murders of civilians and prisoners of war without trials. Their graves were levelled and in Slovenia it was forbidden to talk about their fate. Repressive organs controlled the burials sites and the living were strictly forbidden to mention the victims or the graves. The so-called system of preserving and developing revolutionary heritage was used by the [[Communists|Communist Party]] to implement a monopoly on the truth.'' (page 201.)}} | | {{Cquote|'''(c)''' ''Mystifying the crimes of the occupiers, Titoism covered its own crimes. The taboo to hide the crimes of Titoism was meant to conceal the War-time and post-War murders of civilians and prisoners of war without trials. Their graves were levelled and in Slovenia it was forbidden to talk about their fate. Repressive organs controlled the burials sites and the living were strictly forbidden to mention the victims or the graves. The so-called system of preserving and developing revolutionary heritage was used by the [[Communists|Communist Party]] to implement a monopoly on the truth.'' (page 201.)}} |
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− | ==Joze Dezman== | + | ==Joze Dezman and Titoism== |
| '''Joze Dezman''' (director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, [[Slovenia]]) described the fundamental characteristics of the post-Second World War crimes: | | '''Joze Dezman''' (director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, [[Slovenia]]) described the fundamental characteristics of the post-Second World War crimes: |
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| *[[Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!]] | | *[[Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!]] |
| *[[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia| Dictator Josip Broz Tito, Titoism and Wikipedia]] | | *[[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia| Dictator Josip Broz Tito, Titoism and Wikipedia]] |
| + | * [[Jugoslavija i totalitarni komunizam|Jugoslavija i totalitarni komunizam]] |
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| == Notes== | | == Notes== |
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| *Edited by Peter Jambrek <ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc93/EDOC6913.htm Council of Europe-Parliamentary Assembly]</ref> Published by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the '''European Union Crimes''' and other gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe: cross- national survey of crimes committed and of their remembrance, recognition, redress, and reconciliation. | | *Edited by Peter Jambrek <ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc93/EDOC6913.htm Council of Europe-Parliamentary Assembly]</ref> Published by Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the '''European Union Crimes''' and other gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe: cross- national survey of crimes committed and of their remembrance, recognition, redress, and reconciliation. |
| *'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' | | *'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' |
| + | * Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia - An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross by Zdravko Dizdar of the Croatian Institute of History |
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| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kspj_4TcjOQ&feature=related BBC 4]: ''' Internal Security''' of the Former Yugoslavia - Mitja Ribicic (interview): | | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kspj_4TcjOQ&feature=related BBC 4]: ''' Internal Security''' of the Former Yugoslavia - Mitja Ribicic (interview): |
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| * Government of the [[Slovenia|Republic of Slovenia]]: Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia (a former republic of Yugoslavia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Concealed_Mass_Graves_in_Slovenia ''Link''] | | * Government of the [[Slovenia|Republic of Slovenia]]: Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Slovenia (a former republic of Yugoslavia) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Concealed_Mass_Graves_in_Slovenia ''Link''] |
| *[http://www.eu2008.si/en/ Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council] | | *[http://www.eu2008.si/en/ Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council] |
− | * National Museum of Contemporary History (Ljubljana) [http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/slovenia/Units/3859.html ''Link''] | + | * National Museum of Contemporary History (Ljubljana) [http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/slovenia/Units/3859.html '''Link'''] |
− | * University of Zagreb [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ ''Link''] | + | * Croatian Institute of History [http://www.isp.hr/index.php?lang=en '''Link'''] |
| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kspj_4TcjOQ&feature=related BBC 4]: ''' Internal Security''' of the Former Yugoslavia - Mitja Ribicic (Interview). | | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kspj_4TcjOQ&feature=related BBC 4]: ''' Internal Security''' of the Former Yugoslavia - Mitja Ribicic (Interview). |
| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uvudCq2q8&feature=PlayList&p=1DFEA72867B14F6F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1 BBC 4]: Croatian Physicist, Philosopher, Writer, Playwright, Peace Activist Humanist & former Yugoslav Partizan - Ivan Supek (Interview). | | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2uvudCq2q8&feature=PlayList&p=1DFEA72867B14F6F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1 BBC 4]: Croatian Physicist, Philosopher, Writer, Playwright, Peace Activist Humanist & former Yugoslav Partizan - Ivan Supek (Interview). |