Geoffrey Swain
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127 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Geoffrey Swain’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Critics of Tito will say he just loved going on these jaunts and being treated as a great statesman.
But it has a huge impact within the United Nations.
Suddenly these states have a new forum, and together they're much more powerful than they were individually.
I've forgotten how many holiday homes he has.
By the time he dies, he has holiday islands, he has holiday hunting lodges, and he had a collection of cars and that sort of thing.
So yes, he liked the good things of life.
And the invasion of Czechoslovakia, that's it as far as Tito is concerned.
The Brezhnev people are never going to accept that I'm anything other than unacceptable.
And so that's it.
So when I say purge of Croatian party leadership in 1971, no, they weren't banged up in prison and put on starvation.
They were just removed from the post.
Federal ties are loosened.
Republican leaders are given decision-making powers of investment.
And that's what really brings up the Croat nationalism issue, because the Dalmatian coast was already developing as a tourist honeypot.
And they had huge foreign currency earnings.
Now, who was going to decide what happened to those foreign currency earnings?
Was that just part of the investment pot to be decided by Croatia?
And the Croatians obviously said yes.
When the other republics said, hang on, it's just chance that you've got the coast.
We've got sunshine, but we don't have the coast.
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