Branko Brkic
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Branko Burkic.
1961 was the first conference, and that was a major, major milestone.
Let me just remind you, it was 25 member states and three that were zeros.
It grew all the way to 110 in the mid-70s.
So it captured the imagination and became an expression of the world that didn't want the Third World War, didn't want the nuclear annihilation, and didn't want to be part of the one or the other.
You know, if you want to open a Swiss shop, if you want to open a restaurant, you understand that the government is not very good at those things.
And it was a balance.
Quite a few people started living really well, and then suddenly the whole population started living very well.
People who took over Yugoslavia with Tito, they were partisans, they were communists, they were not necessarily educated people.
They were not geniuses, they were not PhDs, professors, engineers, and doctors.
However, they kind of liked the power.
But then, you know, the new generation came in that was educated in 1950s and early 60s, and they became so-called technocrat generations.
And suddenly the generation comes of age and they see that these old guys are not doing things they were supposed to be doing, and they started rebelling against the old guys.
They were saying, you communists are not communists anymore because you tasted power, you tasted good life, and you betrayed the original dance of communism.
Towards the end of Tito's life, he could see with great dismay as the Soviet-aligned countries like Cuba becoming much more aggressive within the movements, and that was giving him lots of grief.
But it is unfortunately a reality of a movement that has more than 100 countries and different interests.
I don't know how much that is understood in the Western world.
He became a patron saint on just about every liberation movement you can find.
So late 1950s and especially 1960s, when the Great Liberation of Africa happened, many of those countries were given help by Yugoslavia.
It goes from helping the Kwame Nkrumah to helping Muammar Gaddafi, you know, to helping Idi Amin.
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