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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But you also have the supply of a lot of experts, men skilled in sabotage, skilled in leadership, who can advise the partisans.
Because the partisans have guts, they have drive, they have zeal, they have enormous courage.
But they're not regular professional soldiers.
What they need is professional help.
We're really talking in the end about the only conquered country in World War II which self-liberated, and that was Yugoslavia.
The Soviets play a marginal role right at the end, but it's the fact of self-liberation which gives Tito his great status for the rest of his life, but also Yugoslavia its great status.
He's an itinerant radical.
He's going from factory to factory, organizing strikes, doing work.
He has a trade.
He served a three-year apprenticeship as a locksmith.
And he can kind of do anything with his hands.
He is very much the skilled artisan, skilled worker.
Interestingly, what he's actually doing is not occupying jobs which bear some relationship to his talent,
The old Europe has torn itself apart.
So this notion of scientific socialism, this notion of a new order which is bright and keen and organized and rational, not subject to the vagaries of the stock market, is not actually subject to casino capitalism.
It must at the time have seemed a shining new vision which beckoned him.
He was a great thespian, a huge dramaturg, a shakeshifter.
He could be middle class, he could be working class, he could be a businessman, he could be an engineer, he could be a tough proletarian, he could be a wise and old army sergeant.
This man had a consistent, authentic self, there's no question of that.
But is part of his array of talents that he could appear to convince local people that he was a German, local people that he was an Austrian, local people that he was Russian?
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