Nicholas O’Shaughnessy
speaker
165 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Nicholas O’Shaughnessy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He had this blue train.
He had this yacht.
He had this island.
He had all these mansions, palaces, and villas.
The interesting thing is that they're the property of the Yugoslav state, not his family.
so that when he died, they all went back to the Yugoslav government.
Like the Habsburg emperors, he became godfather to every 12th child in Yugoslavia and so forth.
And so what he does at some stage quite early on is he becomes an international celebrity.
But he loved it all.
He loved the uniforms, the actresses, the glitz, all the theater, the pageantry, if you like.
He adored it.
So when you think of the other communist leaders
in Europe at that time, like Kadar, like, say, Erich Honecker in East Germany.
I mean, they are quite repulsive.
And this is part of the Tito thing, that he had enormous charm and charmed everyone.
Like the Irish one, it's the only country in the world with no enemies.
And so you have this extraordinary openness to the world.
It's full of happy tourists.
You have this passage of people in and out of Yugoslavia.
The tourists come in, the workers go out, they earn foreign exchange, they come back.
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