Neil Barnett
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125 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Neil Barnett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, he was a communist and was popular, whereas all the other people were imposed by the Red Army.
And so there's this weird feeling in Western Croatia, well, he's a dictator, but at least he's got a great father, he's not a Serb, and he kept the Russians out.
So, you know, we have freedom which other peoples don't have.
The Kurds created atrocities that shocked even the SS, and that is quite something.
And of course, we discovered later that Kurt Waldheim knew all this, because he was deeply involved with the Germans.
It all got slightly awkward, of course, when he became UN Secretary General.
I tend to think he was Tito, that he really was Josef Broz.
People know the village he was brought up in.
They knew, people knew his brother, you know, his father.
And there's all sorts of conspiracy theories.
They're all fascinating, but they all contradict each other.
I just tend to think enough people knew Tito to say that he was Josef Broz.
I think it would be very difficult for him to have been somebody else.
Stalin didn't want Tito to mess things up by helping the communists in Greece, because he'd agreed that Greece could be part of the Western zone in return for Britain basically surrendering the whole of Eastern Europe to Stalin.
A lot of people would say, what happened in 1948?
Well, I think the interpretation I gave was that Tito wanted to run his own show.
They always were slightly different anyway.
But the real thing was that he was his own boss and he wasn't going to be told what to do by Stalin.
He got on quite well with Khrushchev, and Khrushchev was different, but they were still loyal communists.
Well, Khrushchev was hoping for better reconciliation than he had, but then Tito sort of played both sides against the middle, because he was very nice to us, and he was also very nice to Khrushchev.
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