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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And what you have in a hilly country, London's country even, occupied by the Third Reich,
The partisans are not alone.
The Nazi atrocities are far, far worse than almost anywhere else.
So you get this claim that for every dead German soldier, 100 local people would be executed.
So the Third Reich was at its most murderous in Yugoslavia.
The figure we're given is a million people killed in Yugoslavia in World War II.
But part of it is because the resistance actually resisted.
Well, Tito is an idea.
He's a concept.
He's something beyond the human.
He's a kind of denigod.
And like Robin Hood, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere.
He said, well, nor do I. They just want to back the toughest side fighting Hitler.
If those people happen to be communists, they happen to be communists.
And not only are the Yugoslav communists by far the most effective, best led, the most rigorously organized and trained,
But the Chetniks, you actually cannot trust them anymore.
Whereas the partisans, the communist partisans, are utterly reliable because they hate the Nazis with a murderous impassioned intensity.
The opponent said, don't give me good generals, give me lucky ones.
Tito has extraordinary luck throughout his life.
You've got huge amounts of ammunition coming in, planes, so forth, and supplies.
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