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 Encyclopedia: Communist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Many other Communist parties, especially in Europe, were created in the 1910s and 1920s as the result of factional splits within most of the socialist parties that existed at the time.
The Communist Party of the United States was considered within the political mainstream during the 1930s and 1940s, but the advent of the Cold War got it declared illegal for a time and led to McCarthyism, a vigorous anti-Communist political repression movement in America during the 1950s which effectively destroyed the American Communist Party's influence.
Members of communist parties were persecuted in many countries in the early Cold War period, when anticommunist sentiment was fueled by Western governments as part of their Cold War strategy.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Communist-Party   (5711 words)

  
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yugoslav kingdom bordered Italy and Austria to the northwest, Hungary and Romania to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece and Albania to the south, and the Adriatic Sea to the west.
Serb politicians regarded Serbia as the standardbearer of Yugoslav unity, as the state of Piedmont had been for Italy, and the nation of Prussia for the German Empire.
On October 9, 1934, the king was assassinated in Marseille, France by Yugoslav exiles, radical members of the political parties that he banned five years earlier (primarily the VMRO).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia   (2715 words)

  
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Communist Yugoslav leadership tried to involve the Kosovo Albanians in partisan resistance movement against occupiers, but its attempts were unresponsive or unrewarding.
Yugoslav Communists (partisans) addressed all the oppressed social strata and nonrecognized ethnic groups, and gathered them around a new project of socialistic federation of equal republics and peoples.
In the core of the conflict was the collision between political vision of Macedonia as a republic of the new Yugoslav federation versus assembling the Western Macedonia to the rest of the territories inhabited with Albanians.
gsoa.ch /zivil/kosov@/kosov@_nato/199905/macedonian_perspectives.html   (15169 words)

  
 Pablo: The Yugoslav Affair (1948)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was the Kremlin which began hostilities against the leadership of the Yugoslav party by the first letter addressed by the CC of the Russian Communist Party to the CC of the Yugoslav party on March 27, 1948.
Such an operation was especially necessary in the leadership of the Yugoslav party which, of all the European Communist parties, is the one which experienced a specific development during the war that was likely to prove favorable to resistance against the direct and absolute control of the Kremlin.
The Yugoslav Communists emerged from the war, proud of their exploits and enthusiastic for “socialist reconstruction.” Contact with the “Soviet brothers” sent from the Kremlin was probably not the happiest.
www.marxists.org /archive/pablo/1948/08/yugoslavia.htm   (4925 words)

  
 Central European University
Communist authorities had by means of coercion subjugated all aspects of local political, economic, educational, and even recreational activity.
During the period of communist Yugoslavia, secularization was coerced by all means in addition to the processes of economic and cultural transformation of the traditional community setting.
The Yugoslav party and the secret police staged an all-out war against as much as a fifth of their membership.The existing prisons could not accommodate thousands of newly arrested, so the party leadership decided to build a new and special camp, designed to "re-educate and rehabilitate" former 'comrades' through process of complete debasement and annihilation.
www.c3.hu /~bocs/teza.htm   (15793 words)

  
 Carl K. Savich - The Kosovo Crisis: Origins and History
Are the roots to the conflict in Kosovo found in the historical development and evolution of the region, in "ancient ethnic hatreds", in the occupation of the region by foreign powers, in the demographic changes which resulted from war and occupation, the migrations and immigration, or in recent political policies.
Yugoslav Albanians had developed a "national identity" since 1945 like the Macedonians, who were recognized as a nation at that time for the first time.
Indeed, the Yugoslav government is referred to as a "regime" and the President of Yugoslavia is referred to as "the dictator of Serbia", thus, the Yugoslav government lacks legitimacy and full recognition under US policy.
www.snd-us.com /history/savich_kosovo-origins.htm   (13446 words)

  
 Carl Savich | Columns | serbianna.com
According to the 1981 Yugoslav census, ethnic Albanians were 77.5% of the population of Kosovo, 1,226,736.
The evolution in the autonomy of Kosovo is described by Repishti as a ìprogress-regress cycle of constitutional amendments, according to the political climate of the day.î (68)Repishti argued that the crux of the problem is denial of de jure republic status for Kosovo, the denial of nation status for Albanians.
Under the Yugoslav political,constitutional, and national system, only nations could have republic status, not nationalities or national minorities.The rationale was based in part on the fact that the national minorities in Yugoslavia had homelands and nations outside of Yugoslavia, while the nations of Yugoslavia did not.
www.serbianna.com /columns/savich/011.shtml   (10223 words)

  
 TR 2/2004: N. Stedul & T. Sunic: Marshal Tito’s Killing Fields   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The criminal acts by the UDBA were committed abroad, and for them the Yugoslav Communist government (and their today-recycled followers both in Croatia and Serbia) bear direct responsibility.
This further confirms that for the UDBA and the Yugoslav Communist regime, the main criterion for coming to terms with "hostile elements" was not ideological affiliation of the target-victim (left vs. right), but primarily the removal of all those who showed any inclination towards any form of Croatian statehood or/and Croatian nationhood.
The reason for that was the fact that the Yugoslav President Tito, as a follow-up to the important Plenary Congress of the Yugoslav Communist League, which was held on the Island of Briuni in 1966, after having fired his chief of the Yugoslav Security, Mr.
www.vho.org /tr/2004/2/StedulSunic181-183.html   (2798 words)

  
 Revisionism Yesterday and Today
On the false accusation of the Czechoslovak leadership headed by Slansky, he was arrested by the Soviet state in 1950 as a spy for Tito, accused of terrorist plans and diversionist acts, meaning that he planned to assassinate the leadership of the international Communist parties.
When the two-faced policies of the Yugoslav leadership were exposed, they then quickly liquidated the party and started the liquidation and jailing of all true Communists, these same Communists who were in the front line in the partisans fighting German fascists and liberating Yugoslavia...
Regarding Yugoslavia, this proclamation by the Khrushchev leadership that the League of Yugoslav Communists was correct was, according to Milichevich… the main cause of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the victory of the bourgeois counter-revolution.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0108/revisionism.htm   (1540 words)

  
 Seeing Yugoslavia Through a Dark Glass: Politics, Media And the Ideology of Globalization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the 1948 break with Moscow, the Yugoslav communist leadership emphasized its difference from the Soviet bloc by adopting a policy of "self-management', supposed to lead by fairly rapid stages to the "withering away of the State'.
The Yugoslav story was complicated; anti-Serb stories had the advantage of being simple and available, and they provided an easy-to-use moral compass by designating the bad guys.
The simplistic interpretation of the Yugoslav crisis as Serbian "aggression" against peaceful multicultural Europe, is virtually unassailable, because it is not only credible according to this ideology but seems to confirm it.
www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/kosovo20.htm   (4172 words)

  
 Blood and Honey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Beginning in 1987, Milosevic, then a Serbian Communist Party official, led the charge for the elimination of the autonomy enjoyed by the ethnic Albanian majority in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
After 1989, when it became clear the Yugoslav communist party would have to accept multiparty elections, Croat and Slovene nationalists took the lead in seeking to break from Yugoslavia.
Mendenhall’s reports so annoyed the Yugoslav government that he was ejected by the Belgrade government two weeks into the war.
www.msnbc.com /news/484122.asp?cp1=1   (1097 words)

  
 Who were the Macedonians ? (Background to todays conflict) [Free Republic]
Communist Yugoslav leadership, with Tito (a Croat) and Kardelj (a Slovene), both Serb-haters at heart, could not outdo each other in devising ways to break up Yugoslavia's Serbdom.
Later, I discovered that the modern Macedonian language, the "pure" version taken from around Bitola, was grammatically defined by a Bulgarian linguist and its version of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by a Yugoslav shortly after WWII becuase the language had neither a written grammar nor a standardized alphabet.
Communist books, encyclopedias, etc. identified Montenegrins as Yugoslav people "of Serb origin," whose metamorphosis occurred sometime in the historical development and during WWII (!?) into a separate ethnicity.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b2dae927e99.htm   (9616 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Economy - overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bulgaria, a former communist country striving to enter the European Union, has experienced macroeconomic stability and positive growth rates since a major economic downturn in 1996 led to the fall of the then socialist government.
The authorities have switched to a system of household and village responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted a wide variety of small-scale enterprise in services and light manufacturing, and opened the economy to increased foreign trade and investment.
On the darker side, the leadership has often experienced in its hybrid system the worst results of socialism (bureaucracy and lassitude) and of capitalism (windfall gains and growing income disparities).
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2116.html   (16452 words)

  
 Origins and History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On February 8, 1945, Kosovo-Metohija was declared a iwar zonei by the leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party, Josip Broz Tito.(65) A Military Directorate was established for Kosovo when the rebellion was quashed in May, 1945.
The evolution in the autonomy of Kosovo is described by Repishti as a iprogress-regress cycle of constitutional amendments, according to the political climate of the day.i (68)Repishti argued that the crux of the problem is denial of de jure republic status for Kosovo, the denial of nation status for Albanians.
Yugoslav Albanians had developed a inational identityi since 1945 like the Macedonians, who were recognized as a nation at that time for the first time.
www.kosovo.com /origins_savich.html   (9926 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Macedonian Orthodox Church Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Supported by Roman Catholic Josip Broz Tito's Communist Yugoslav Partizans, right before the end of the war, in 1944, in the village of Gorno Vranovci, an Initiative Board for the Organisation of the Macedonian Orthodox Church was formed.
The move to create a separate Macedonian church in the newly created People's Republic of Macedonia was seen as a a move by the Yugoslav Communist leadership to check the influence of the Serb Orthodox Church and the Serbs in general, the relative majority in Yugoslavia.
The issue of dispute is the anti-canonical method used to gain autocephaly, the issue of the Serb Orthodox minority in Macedonia (at least 40,000 strong) and the question of some hundreds of Serb Orthodox shrines from the medieval Nemanjic period found in the republic nowadays.
www.ipedia.com /macedonian_orthodox_church.html   (1386 words)

  
 Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was in view of this position, forwarded during a visit to Moscow by the Chinese party's vice-chairman, Liu Shaoqi, that the Soviet party leadership promised, in a statement dated 30 October, to place inter party relations on equal bases.
The developments of the Suez crisis, US propaganda, and the anti communist atrocities committed in Hungary all led to the Chinese Communist Party Secretary General's impression that "an international imperialist conspiracy" was threatening the state socialist camp.
Other lectures made it clear that the Yugoslav leadership considered only the reform communist leaders as allies in Hungary.
www.un.int /hungary/961106kp.htm   (1185 words)

  
 CovertAction.org
The simplistic interpretation of the Yugoslav crisis as Serbian "aggression" against peaceful multi-cultural Europe, is virtually unassailable, because it is not only credible according to this ideology but seems to confirm it.
In Germany, the project for the political unification of all Croatian nationalists, both communist and Ustashe, with the aim of seceding and establishing "Greater Croatia," was followed closely and sympathetically by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), West Germany’s CIA, which hoped to gain its own sphere of influence on the Adriatic from the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The nationalist unification, which eventually brought former communist general Franjo Tudjman to power in Zagreb with the support of the Ustashe diaspora, got seriously underway after Tito’s death in 1980, during the years when Bonn’s current foreign minister, Klaus Kinkel, was heading the BND.
www.geocities.com /jasonmeade3000/global-bosnia.html   (8155 words)

  
 Seeing Yugoslavia Through a Dark Glass: Politics, Media and the Ideology of Globalization
After the 1948 break with Moscow, the Yugoslav communist leadership emphasized its difference from the Soviet bloc by adopting a policy of “self-management,” supposedly to lead by fairly rapid stages to the “withering away of the State.” Tito repeatedly revised the Constitution to strengthen local authorities, while retaining final decision-making power for himself.
In Germany, the project for the political unification of all croatian nationalists, both communist and Ustashe, with the aim of seceding and establishing “Greater Croatia,” was followed closely and sympathetically by the Bundesnachrichtendiensi (BND), West Germany’s CIA, which hoped to gain its own sphere of influence on the Adriatic from the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The nationalist unification which eventually brought former communist general Franjo Tudjman to power in Zagreb with the support of the Ustashe diaspora got seriously under way after Tito’s death in 1980., during the years when Bonn’s current foreign minister, Klaus Kinkel, was heading the BND.
emperors-clothes.com /articles/Johnstone/Yugo1.html   (2777 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: COMINFORM COMMUNIQUÉ: Resolution of the Information Bureau Concerning the Communist Party ...
The Information Bureau declares that the leadership of the Yugoslav Communist Party is pursuing an unfriendly policy toward the Soviet Union and the CPSU (B).
Concerning the leading role of the working class, the leaders of the Yugoslav Communist Party, bv affirming that the peasantry is the 'most stable foundation of the Yugoslav state' are departing from the Marxist-LenI.
Should the present leaders of the Yugoslav Communist Party prove incapable of doing this, their job is to replace them and to advance a new internationalist leadership of the Party.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1948cominform-yugo1.html   (955 words)

  
 Enver Hoxha: 'With Stalin - Memoirs from my Meetings with Stalin.' (1981)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I added that Kristo Themelko was one of those most influenced by the Trotskyite Yugoslav leadership and had implemented its directives in the sector of the army unreservedly.
The Albanian element is particularly persecuted in Titoite Yugoslavia, because the present Yugoslav leaders are well aware of the patriotic and revolutionary qualities of the Albanian population there, well aware that for this population the national problem has been and still is an open wound which needs to be healed.
The enemy was spared this because of the wrong tactic of the Greek leadership which thought and still thinks that it should always station its main forces facing the enemy in a frontal war and a passive defence.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hoxha/works/stalin/meet2.htm   (6620 words)

  
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After World War II, the new Communist Yugoslavia tried to build "brotherhood and unity" on the myth that all the peoples had contributed equally to liberation from fascism.
After the 1948 break with Moscow, the Yugoslav communist leadership emphasized its difference from the Soviet bloc by adopting a policy of "self-management," supposed to lead by fairly rapid stages to the "withering away of the State." Tito repeatedly revised the Constitution to strengthen local authorities, while retaining final decision-making power for himself.
Down with the State ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This ideology is the expression in moralistic terms of the dominant project for reshaping the world since the United States emerged as sole superpower after the defeat of communism and collapse of the Soviet Union.
www.math.yorku.ca /Who/Faculty/Muldoon/sfp/newsl/sfp18   (4099 words)

  
 Fessenden School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Inside the massive multi-storied galleries of the two main KEK complexes, A and B, one can track the periods of post-war Yugoslav history and influence simply by looking at the logos of the generators — some were made by General Electric, other Soviet and the third I saw was French.
Modern Skopje itself is rather ugly built (rebuilt) in massive communist style concrete after the earthquake.
What mystified me, and always does when I arrive to hill-top sites such as Novo Brdo was the sheer labor and human suffering it must have taken with the limited technology of the time to build such huge, heavy and precisely cut structures in such daunting, remote sites.
www.fessenden.org /alumni/news_detail.asp?newsid=65326   (4831 words)

  
 Seeing Yugoslavia Through a Dark Glass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The simplistic interpretation of the Yugoslav crisis as Serbian "aggression" against peaceful multi-cultural Europe, is virtually unassailable, because it is not only credible according to this ideology, but seems to conform it.
The leading Yugoslav political parties all have offices in Kosovo and claim some Kosovar members members, but essentially they are "Serb-only" institutions.
This is perhaps because the ICG addresses its findings to high-level decision-makers who need to be in possession of a certain number of facts, rather than to the general public.
emperors-clothes.com /articles/Johnstone/1yugo.htm   (8452 words)

  
 Anti-Semitism, Misinformation, And the Whitewashing Of The Palestinian Leadership
Anti-Semitism, Misinformation, And the Whitewashing Of The Palestinian Leadership
After the war, the Yugoslav government issued a warrant for the Mufti’s arrest for war crimes.
The first step would be to reject the leadership of the ideological descendants of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, who even in death dominates his people’s political life and distorts their aspirations, leading them down a path of intolerance and war.
emperors-clothes.com /gilwhite/Israel.htm   (10447 words)

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