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| == European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes on Yugoslavia== | | == European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes on Yugoslavia== |
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− | '''Reports''' and proceedings of the 8 April European public hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”, organised by the '''Slovenian Presidency''' ([[Slovenia]] a former republic of Yugoslavia) of the Council of the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the ''European Commission'': | + | '''Reports''' and proceedings of the 8 April European public hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”, organised by the '''Slovenian Presidency''' ([[Slovenia]] a former republic of Yugoslavia) of the Council of the [[European Union]] (January–June 2008) and the European Commission: |
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− | '''Titoism & Totalitarianism''': | + | (a) '''Totalitarian machines''' |
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− | *Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects; | + | 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: |
− | * Cult of a great leader, who permits his fanatics to murder, steal and lie; | + | *Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects; |
− | * Dictatorship of one party; | + | *Cult of a great leader, who permits his fanatics to murder, steal and lie; |
− | * Militarisation of society, police state – almighty secret political police; | + | *Dictatorship of one party; |
− | * Collectivism, subjection of the citizen to the totalitarian state; | + | *Militarisation of society, police state – almighty secret political police; |
− | * State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic human rights; | + | *Collectivism, subjection of the citizen to the totalitarian state; |
− | * Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. | + | *State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic human rights; |
| + | *Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory. |
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| Ref: Joze Dezman CRIMES COMMITTED BY | | Ref: Joze Dezman CRIMES COMMITTED BY |
| TOTALITARIAN REGIMES page '''''197''''' [http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf Slovenian Presidency of the [[European Union]] 2008] | | TOTALITARIAN REGIMES page '''''197''''' [http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf Slovenian Presidency of the [[European Union]] 2008] |
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− | '''Mass killings without court trials''': | + | (b) '''Mass killings without court trials''' |
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| ''The Main Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army had already called attention to respecting the Geneva Convention on 3 May in its order on the treatment of prisoners of war. However, despite this injunction, both prisoners of war and civilians were killed massively at the end of May and in the first half of June 1945 in Slovenia. Tito’s telegram on respecting the Geneva Convention was later revoked; however, it could only be revoked by the person who issued it in the first place, i.e. '''Tito himself'''.'' | | ''The Main Headquarters of the Yugoslav Army had already called attention to respecting the Geneva Convention on 3 May in its order on the treatment of prisoners of war. However, despite this injunction, both prisoners of war and civilians were killed massively at the end of May and in the first half of June 1945 in Slovenia. Tito’s telegram on respecting the Geneva Convention was later revoked; however, it could only be revoked by the person who issued it in the first place, i.e. '''Tito himself'''.'' |