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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And they had this euphemism in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia for people who were on the wrong end of things.
So if you were going to be sent to Goli Otok, you were going to be removed from the social community.
And if you're going to be killed, you're going to be removed from the physical community.
He sends assassins to kill me and they failed.
When I send an assassin to kill you, he'll succeed.
Quite impressive.
I think this is sometimes glossed over or sometimes not fully understood that the partisan war was a resistance to occupation and a communist revolution wrapped up in one.
The two were indistinguishable.
And that's the opportunity really that Yugoslav communists have been waiting for.
And they got it.
They didn't have the discipline and organization of the partisans, drunkenness and massive consumption of slivovets and excesses were their thing.
Their strategy was to try and preserve Serbia because they were Serbian nationalists.
But this then developed into local understandings with German commanders and then sometimes local collaboration with the Germans against the partisans.
I mean, he was enormously capable militarily and enormously charismatic.
And he was up in the hills with the partisans and sharing their risks and privations.
He was a proper leader.
And he didn't reserve any particular privileges for himself, except for partisans generally weren't allowed to fraternize with those of the opposite sex.
And he gave himself a pass on that count.
But apart from that, he was walking the walk.
I think Churchill liked his sort of piratical personality and appreciated this sort of, you know, sort of Balkan haiduk.
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