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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They realize that they must retrieve this man, whatever it costs.
But you see, Tito is just a big man.
He's not going to be anybody's lapdog.
That is his core persona.
He's not going to be a lickspittle.
What he's doing is defying Stalin's orders.
Tito is not toeing the party line.
And we know what happens to people who don't toe the party line.
Mykrotky forgot the party line and ended up with an ice pick in his head in Mexico.
If he wants to kill Tito, Hitler does, the Italians, and latterly, Stalin does, as we shall see, but killing Tito.
Yes, the man is indestructible.
He actually has his own little despotic sandpit.
He has a political prison.
And in the early days, it's pretty vicious.
The Yugoslav government admitted in the mid-60s that about 600 people had died there.
A lot of these were communist furies with the way that Tito deviated from the party line.
But then, yes, you do have the ethnic nationalists.
So it could only be held together by a strong man prepared to be ruthless.
It's very difficult to think how a liberal Tito could have actually held the whole thing together.
It's a common rumor that Tito actually had Stalin knocked off.
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