Richard Mills
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Frivolous.
But in his latter years, he received regular massages from Slovenian identical twins and sort of capers.
And I think it goes back to my point, he wasn't fanatically ideological.
He was a boy from a village in the mountains who wants to be a kink.
He became a huge asset to Yugoslavia in its ability to position itself in the world and chart its own course.
And I think often the one-man explanation of history is incorrect, but the fortunes of Yugoslavia in that period are so closely tied to him as a person that it's hard to overstate.
By the early 70s, you have people coming to adulthood who have no recollection of the war.
And so for them, the appeals that Tito made to national solidarity and the recollection of the war and the Pakistan struggle really don't mean anything.
And I think he understood that what happened in Prague in 1968 with this
movement of students was something that he couldn't take a neutral position on.
He understood that very well, and I think that was probably a pretty smart move on his part.
And this is where, again, regardless of the split with Stalin, you wonder really what was Tito's position in the Cold War, because the non-aligned movement is obviously, it's a misnomer.
These were outriders of the Soviet Union, in my view, and it clearly wasn't sitting in the middle.
It was cantered a long way off to the left.
And that economic situation also intersects with the nationalism in the sense that Yugoslavia was a slightly unusual empire in that the center, Serbia, the dominant state, was not the economic engine at all.
The economic engine really was Slovenia and Croatia.
And so Croats and Slovenes felt that on the one hand they're denied the autonomy they would like to have.
And on the other hand, their wealth is taken from them into Belgrade and then redistributed.
And one of his eccentricities was that he felt really that death wasn't for him, and he wouldn't go to people's funerals.
He wouldn't contemplate the world without him, which in retrospect was clearly a recipe for disaster.
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