Branko Brkic
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97 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Branko Brkic’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You need to understand that Tito was not just another dictator, just another power-hungry, corrupt man.
He was the man with a serious vision to survive what Tito survived in the Second World War.
Just to give you an idea, the entire movement of Tito's partisans was very, very optimistically numbered at 80,000 at the end of 1941.
By the time the war was over, it was more than a million people that joined.
By the end of the war, this was a proper army.
And what he built, he built something which was from the ground up and which was actually built by the people of Yugoslavia.
It's really important that this was not a recruitment, a classical state recruitment, repression-type recruitment.
This was people who actually willingly wanted to fight the Germans and the Italians and everybody else.
It was compelling because he was a genuine war hero.
He presided over the renewal of the old South Slav dream of having a country together.
The other element that is incredibly important to understand is that Tito stood up to Stalin in 1948.
And that is one of the greatest moments, I think, in the history of the 20th century, because Europe and the world would have looked differently.
Yugoslavia had meekly just become a part of Stalin's Soviet Union structure in Europe.
I mean, we were a country which existed on a kind of on a barrel of gunpowder, but somehow he managed to bring us a sense of safety and security, which has been unmatched ever since.
After he died, there were so many conspiracy theories and there were so many crazy theories about him.
And I think it doesn't do him justice because he was an extraordinary man without any of those things.
To grow up as a little peasant child who failed the first grade in a school and to grow up to be a legendary leader like that, it takes incredible ability.
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