Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The plain truth is that Yugoslavia is a vicious, degrading Communist state. It has a new aristocracy-the party leaders with their Buicks in Dedinje; a new middle class of high officials, and a new proletariat which is poorer and bigger than the old. Certainly there has been much construction...
The Western visitor finds relief in leaving Belgrade. The Ori ent Express, which had come from Stamboul and Sofia, crawled across the snowy Voivodina plain. In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty. There was neither soap nor towel. The bed pillows were grubby. The Serbian Pullman...
In a village of 300 inhabitants, not 50 miles from Belgrade, a grizzled farmer told me that there was only one Communist in the community. "He is a Communist because he is fat, and he is fat because he is lazy, and he is lazy because he has 15 children...
But the fast pace of the plan helps to defeat it. There is much shoddy building. Imported machines are being wrecked almost as fast as they can be bought. Skilled labor is desperately short.
Yugoslavia is essentially a peasant country. One of the phony accusations made by Stalin against Tito was that land sociali zation had not gone far enough, and that Yugoslavia was run by the "kulaks." The fact is that there are 6,500 collective farms in Yugoslavia, supporting between 1,250...