Richard Mills
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90 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Richard Mills’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People understood that possibly something bad was coming down the line after he died.
But as the end approaches, this kind of national neurosis intensifies.
What will come next?
And what was planned to come next in Yugoslavia was a rotating presidency, something like Switzerland has.
But Yugoslavia isn't Switzerland.
This was clearly not going to work.
Had Yugoslavia remained in one piece, it would be, I would think now, one of the most influential countries in Europe.
It would be the Poland of the South, if you like.
And what we have instead is a series of small states, which, you know, are very charming and beautiful, but they don't count for much on the European or world stage.
And I think it's a net loss that Yugoslavia ceased to exist.
And I'm not sure it was inevitable at all.
He did very well by Yugoslavia, given the circumstances and cards that he was dealt.
In the end, the country was not a gulag.
It wasn't some dreary holding cell like the DDR.
The people had, on the whole, a reasonable life and the ability to travel and a reasonable degree of prosperity and internal peace.
I mean, those are all pretty big achievements, given the backdrop.
And he managed to, I think, in the end, balance East and West pretty effectively.
So it's a pretty good scorecard on that count.
It gave Tito a real legitimacy, and it gave Yves Xavier a high degree of autonomy, both from the Soviets and from the West.
Stalin is trying to keep everything calm in order that he can buy some time until he has a nuclear weapon.
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