Susan L. Woodward
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31 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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But you could also say that that is a part of his political skill, that he realized that part of his charisma would be the performance aspect.
That if he didn't actually show what was possible by having a good life, how could he promise that to his country?
What it means to be a dictator is very different depending upon the kind of political system in the country and the culture.
There's no question that people think democracy is a good idea.
People in the countries of the former Yugoslavia think, but most of them think their lives are not as good as it was before.
So Yugoslavia is excluded from all relations with the rest of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Most importantly, trade, but also the emerging military alliance in reaction to the creation of NATO, namely the Warsaw Pact.
So they're excluded.
And what's really important to know about that is when they choose to reinforce their own path, if you will, the first nine months, the Americans come to their aid, not out of any support for Tito itself, but seeing this as a way of reinforcing independence against the Soviet Union.
and this highly sophisticated national army.
Having that capacity meant that it could offer to NATO a bulwark against the movement if the scenario of the Soviet Union invading Western Europe went not through the north but through the south.
So Yugoslavia's independent defense, that was an important part of Yugoslav neutrality.
The Croatian government sided with the Axis powers and the Ustase.
Even the Nazis apparently thought they were more cruel than their own.
They lost almost half, it is said anyway, almost half of the male population fighting for the West, as we now call it, in World War I. And many of the folk songs, even to this day, are songs that were sung in World War I. And so Serbia, proud of that contribution.
The concession was to allow the Serbs to keep their political system, so you get a unified state at the time, not a federal state.
The issue of integration was how to put pieces, territories that had been part of very different systems.
The Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire in Montenegro and Serbia, two separate independent states.
You can imagine the different systems of the economy, different rail systems.
Everything that needed integrating was more about creating a country and especially a state that worked as one
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