Word: serbian
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...recent speech, Presidium Secretary Dušan Dragosavac warned against any machinations by aspiring Titici-Serbian for Little Titos. Nevertheless, a power struggle is expected to develop eventually among an inner circle of top party leaders. Among them...
From the start, the partisans were opposed by the Četniks-Serbian royalists loyal to the exiled King Peter II-who were led by Colonel Dragoljub Mihailović. Tito initially offered to join forces with the Četniks and put his troops under Mihailović's command. More fearful of the Communists than of the Germans, Mihailović demurred and his Četniks were soon engaged in civil war against the partisans. (He was tried after the war and executed...
...partisans, who ultimately numbered 300,000, had a broader national appeal than the chauvinistically Serbian Četniks, and they were far more active in launching guerrilla attacks against German divisions (up to 26 at one point) tied down in occupying Yugoslavia. As the Nazi troops retreated northward in 1944, Tito moved to consolidate his power. In the process, he violated an apparent promise to Winston Churchill. (Tito had told Britain's Prime Minister in 1944, "That is our basic principle: democracy and freedom of the individual.") Tito ruthlessly intimidated, imprisoned and even murdered his opponents; when general elections were...
Singing, dancing and bearing wild flowers, thousands of Yugoslavs celebrated in a dozen Serbian towns last week as the stafeta, a ceremonial baton, passed through on its annual tour. Carried by relay runners throughout the country's six republics, the stafeta traditionally ends up in Belgrade on May 25 for the official birthday celebration of President Josip Broz Tito. This year the hollow, gold-plated baton contains a special message: "Our desire that you get well is expressed on the lips and resounds in the hearts of all Yugoslavs...