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== Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!==
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== Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles-Work Space==
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'''Wikipedia’s''' article on Dictator Josip Broz Tito is mostly Communist propaganda of the now defunct Communist Party of the former Yugoslavia. As it turns out Jimmy Wales has provided a '''perfect vehicle''' for propaganda of this type. The article is written by Editors from Croatia and supported by other Editors who have Communist leanings. It is written in a totally non-encyclopedic fashion and does not represent contemporary views. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, '''factual evidence''' has emerged that Josip Broz and his regime was responsible for executing mass murders, arrests and torture. The worst of these events was the notorious Bleiburg [http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/09/world/evolution-in-europe-piles-of-bones-in-yugoslavia-point-to-partisan-massacres.html?pagewanted=all ] and Foibe massacres.
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''''Josip Broz''' a Croatian born in  Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia was the Commander of all Partisans and Communists during WWII. He then later became Yugoslavia's political leader and was the main decision maker in military and political matters. During the Cold War he was portrayed to the people of Yugoslavia and to the West as a hero. He was considered to be by many, one of the prominent Eastern European Balkan Dictators of the Cold War era.  After World War Two, Tito and his comrades set up KGB/NKVD style police units (UDBA & OZNA) and unleashed terror in the former Yugoslavia on a grand scale. One only has to  mention Goli Otok, a '''notorious prison''' on the Croatian coast (former Yugoslavia’s Evil Island-Gulag). The terror campaign lasted for about twenty years until the regime introduced reforms in the 1960's. The article doesn't even mention that Josip Broz's and his fellow communist were committing economic suicide in the 1960's and 70's.
 
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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"''.
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'''Josip Broz''' a Croatian born in  Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia was the Commander of all Partisans and Communists during WWII. He then later became Yugoslavia's political leader and was the main decision maker in military and political matters. During the Cold War he was portrayed to the people of Yugoslavia and to the West as a hero. He was considered to be by many, one of the prominent Eastern European Balkan Dictators of the Cold War era.  After World War Two, Tito and his comrades set up KGB/NKVD style police units (UDBA & OZNA) and unleashed terror in the former Yugoslavia on a grand scale. One only has to  mention Goli Otok, a '''notorious prison''' on the Croatian coast (former Yugoslavia’s Evil Island-Gulag). The terror campaign lasted for about twenty years until the regime introduced reforms in the 1960's. The article doesn't even mention that Josip Broz's and his fellow communist were committing economic suicide in the 1960's and 70's.
      
Is Wikipedia taking on a darker tone? Where are the ethical and moral issues involved in creating a feel good article about a man who played a major role in these historicial events? How many more articles are being written within Wikipedia that are just the point of view of its Editors (political, in this case).  This is not encyclopedic work, pure and simple.  
 
Is Wikipedia taking on a darker tone? Where are the ethical and moral issues involved in creating a feel good article about a man who played a major role in these historicial events? How many more articles are being written within Wikipedia that are just the point of view of its Editors (political, in this case).  This is not encyclopedic work, pure and simple.  
    
Is this type of phenomenon happening with other articles. Quite possible!
 
Is this type of phenomenon happening with other articles. Quite possible!
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'''References''' With Contemporary Views '''A''':
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Factual statements on '''economic realities''' of  Josip Broz and his fellow Communists:
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*'''Encyclopaedia Britannica''' -  ''"At his death, the state treasury was '''empty"'''''
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*'''BBC''' UK/History by Tim Judah.-'' "The economy was built on the '''shaky foundations''' of massive western loans."''
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*'''Ivo Goldstein''': 'Croatia A History', a Mc Gill Queen’s University Press Publication.
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''People could obtain so''' much free or for less''' than the '''market price''' (e.g. apartments) that they could be obtain without work.
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Written by Ivo Goldstein: 'Croatia A History'.
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'''Note''': Ivo Goldstein is a Professor at the University of Zagreb  & former Director of the Institute for Croatian History of the University of Zagreb. Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia.
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The above clearly states the failure in the economic management  of Josip Broz and his fellow Communists of the former of Yugoslavia.
      
The University of Zagreb [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zagreb] (1669) is the oldest and biggest university in South-Eastern Europe. The university  has 29 faculties, three art academies and the Centre for Croatian Studies. With its comprehensive programmes and over 50,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. The University is the strongest teaching institution in Croatia.  It offers a wide range of academic degree courses leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees in the following fields: Arts, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Engineering, Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences.  
 
The University of Zagreb [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zagreb] (1669) is the oldest and biggest university in South-Eastern Europe. The university  has 29 faculties, three art academies and the Centre for Croatian Studies. With its comprehensive programmes and over 50,000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students. The University is the strongest teaching institution in Croatia.  It offers a wide range of academic degree courses leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees in the following fields: Arts, Biomedicine, Biotechnology, Engineering, Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences.  
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'''Croatian''' Newspaper ''Jutarnji'' writes on the 01/10/2009
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Communist crimes: '''100,000 Victims in 581 Mass Graves
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In Slovenia, three basic books came out needed for the study of communist crimes in the immediate post-war period. It specifies graves where liquidation and execution of prisoners of war were carried out in its territory.
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This is a report by the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for testing grave sites under the leadership of Joze Dezmanova. and the historian Mitja Ferenc's works of the"Hidden in his Father Zakrito" and "“Prikrita Grobišča 60 let po Koncu Druge Svetovne Vojne”. The report of the Commission of the Government specifies the number of mass graves and victims and their nationality. In this collection, in Slovenia, there was discovered and detected 581 mass graves in which, the author estimates about 100 000 victims in total. According to the research of Slovenian and Croatian historians, Partisans in Slovenia liquidated most of the Ustasa and home guard units. The Croats accounted for between 50 to 80 thousands casualties.
      
'''''Testimony-Eye Witness:'''''
 
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