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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You know, this money should be shared on Yugoslav base.
And that was an issue that went round and round and round and round.
Obviously, the hope was that when the crunch came, the constituent parts of Yugoslavia could still agree to compromise.
But they found that increasingly difficult.
During the Nazi occupation, there were terrible massacres.
The Croatian Ustasi killed an awful lot of Serbs.
Because remember, in Croatia, there was always a Serbian minority.
Many of the early partisans during the Second World War were Serbs from Croatia.
It's only later in this war that the Croatians rally to the partisan call in equal numbers.
So there's always been that tension there.
And there were horrible massacres of Bosnian Muslims during the Second World War as well.
Some horrible things happened in 1945-46, so there's no point pretending.
Should the various Balkan states form a federation of communist powers?
Bulgaria was communist, Albania was communist, Yugoslavia was communist.
Ever since the 19th century, socialists had first suggested a ball confederation.
This had been going around in left-wing thought.
The British made it very clear that they didn't think the ball confederation was a good idea.
And so when Tito raised the idea back in 1945, 46, Darwin said, no, no, no, too complicated.
He's undisputed leader and he's ruthless.
The charge of collaboration was used to make sure that almost any body that Tito felt was an enemy was dealt with.
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