Christopher Catherwood
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137 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Christopher Catherwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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what's come to be known as the Tito style in Split, is an opportunity for Yugoslavia.
It's forced to look for alternatives, for different ways to do things.
And actually, that common form expulsion in 1948 lays the groundwork for Yugoslavia to move off in all kinds of exciting new directions.
Hitler is definitely an enemy of Yugoslavia as a concept.
He is also no fan of the Serbs.
We can trace this back to the First World War, to Serbia's remarkable performance in that conflict.
Very small state with a small population is able to embarrass Austria-Hungary, then emerges as this victor after the First World War around which this new state is built.
We see lots of settling of accounts
Mineral riches are mined, or the Axis war effort, and we see horrendous reprisals against the Serbian population, massacres of innocent civilians, of children in some cases as well.
Yugoslavia is no more.
So it's not until the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 by the Germans that we suddenly see the Comintern mobilizing communist forces elsewhere in Europe.
And at that point, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia receives instructions to start an uprising and to resist the invasion forces.
The other resistance movement under General Draža Mihailović, the Četnik movement, is seeking a restoration of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia with a Serbian monarchy.
Now, as the war progresses, that movement, which is a fairly disparate organization, moves ever more closely towards Serbian nationalism.
The whole ideology of that Ustaše movement is based upon a hatred of Serbs as a people.
They are blamed for the abomination, as they see it, which was the interwar kingdom.
And they are dehumanized to a significant degree.
And we see a genocide against the Serbian population in the independent state of Croatia.
They are now appealing on a multi-ethnic basis to anyone that wants to join them.
We also see the partisans embracing women as fighters, for example.
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