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*From Foreign Office to Belgrade, 15 August 1947 '''Waddams''', vice-consul Ljubljana 1945, considers he may be the diplomatic representative referred to in the trial, as both Furlan and Sirc were the only people who helped him to get the Ljubljana consulate going when he first opened it. He considers this the probable reason for their sentence. (p143)</ref>}}
*From Foreign Office to Belgrade, 15 August 1947 '''Waddams''', vice-consul Ljubljana 1945, considers he may be the diplomatic representative referred to in the trial, as both Furlan and Sirc were the only people who helped him to get the Ljubljana consulate going when he first opened it. He considers this the probable reason for their sentence. (p143)</ref>}}
==European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" and Yugoslavia==
==European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" and Yugoslavia==
{{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.)}}
[[File:Harry-truman.jpg|thumb|right||200px|Harry Truman (33rd President of the United StatesIn office April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953)]]
==Harry Truman speaking about Josip Broz Tito==
On the 23rd of April in 1948, in a speech''' Harry S. Truman''' (the President of [[USA]]) stated:
{{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'''.The book offers a history of US relations with Yugoslavia from 1948 to 1960. It utilizes diverse sources including personal interviews with the key US and Yugoslav officials and the papers of George F. Kennan and John Foster Dulles. It shows 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><ref>Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy by Anne R. Pierce. (p219)</ref>}}
==Joze Dezman and Titoism==
==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: