Christopher Catherwood
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137 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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And that brings an end to that dictatorship period.
The regent starts to look for practical ways to solve some of the insoluble problems.
We see a kind of return to a semi-democracy.
Eventually, we arrive at the sporasm, the agreement, which sees the formation of an autonomous Croatia within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Now, in some regards, that solves the so-called Croatian question.
Unfortunately, though, it also opens up a whole load of new questions.
If the Croats can have their own autonomous part of Yugoslavia, why can't the Slovenes?
Why can't the Serbs?
Let alone other peoples that aren't even recognized as individual nations at this stage.
So we see this state lurch from one crisis to an exit.
There are all kinds of myths and rumors about where this name comes from, whether it's from the Serbo-Croat Pito, you do this, whether it's got some kind of relation to the Spanish Civil War, or whether, as I think is probably more likely, it was just a popular nickname in the Zagoria region at that time.
We see a Yugoslavia that has to exist within the broader situation in Europe at that time, and a Yugoslavia which becomes heavily dependent upon the trade with the Axis.
And it becomes more or less inevitable that it's going to join by this stage.
We see some domestic politicians who are quite attracted to the trappings of fascism as well, who look to Mussolini as a bit of a role model.
And Yugoslavia moves in that direction.
He was also someone who liked the finer things in life, attracted to expensive white suits, speedboats.
He even built up his own personal zoo.
He fraternized with Hollywood film stars and personally oversaw the making of war films, which presented him in a very positive light.
He was ruthless when he needed to be, when people disagreed with him.
So Tito has this remarkably long life, an individual born in the final decade of the 19th century in a completely different political context to the one that will develop during his later lifetime.
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