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Way OT, but a "cold war" question. who were the "Pinkos?"
Tim wrote:
On Feb 29, 10:11 pm, BAR wrote: Tim wrote: JoeSpareBedroom wrote: I'm a bit rusty on this, but I believe Tito thought he could make socialism work in Yugoslavia without involving the evils he saw in the USSR & China. A quick google search for "tito yugoslavia" reveals a vast amount of disagreement about whether he succeeded or not. Evidently he didn't do too good of a job at his attempt. If I rememebr correctly, Wasn't he proven to be one of the most corrupt of Eastern bloc dictators..? That was the guy in Romania. Oh, I know the difference between Josip "Tito" Bronz and Milosovic. But the ws I see it is that Tito didn't like the "ruskie way of communism, and went to fight the corruption, but had a highly corrupt dictatorship. Milosovic? He was corrupt all right, but he wasn't as corrupt as he was an evil butcher. Romania's dictator from the Soviet era was Nicolae Ceausescu. |
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Way OT, but a "cold war" question. who were the "Pinkos?"
On Feb 29, 10:43*pm, BAR wrote:
Tim wrote: On Feb 29, 10:11 pm, BAR wrote: Tim wrote: JoeSpareBedroom wrote: I'm a bit rusty on this, but I believe Tito thought he could make socialism work in Yugoslavia without involving the evils he saw in the USSR & China. A quick google search for "tito yugoslavia" reveals a vast amount of disagreement about whether he succeeded or not. Evidently he didn't do too good of a job at his attempt. If I rememebr correctly, Wasn't he proven to be one of the most corrupt of Eastern bloc dictators..? That was the guy in Romania. Oh, I know the difference between Josip "Tito" Bronz and Milosovic. But the ws I see it is that Tito didn't like the "ruskie way of communism, and went to fight the corruption, but had a highly corrupt dictatorship. Milosovic? He was corrupt all right, but he wasn't as corrupt as he was an evil butcher. Romania's dictator from the Soviet era was Nicolae Ceausescu.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You're right. My bad. Milosovic was later Yugosllavian. I'm corrected. Still he was a butcher. |
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Way OT, but a "cold war" question. who were the "Pinkos?"
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:42:42 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote: On Feb 29, 10:43*pm, BAR wrote: Still he was a butcher. Balkan "politics" is rough. A Serb started WWI, so to speak. Here in Chicago there were assassinations of Serb and Croat politicians as late as the '80's. Maybe it's still happening. Rex Stout always talked a bit about Balkan internecine warfare in his Nero Wolfe novels, Wolfe having Macedonian ancestry. When the wall came down, the first thing I thought was "The Russians better get some troops in Yugoslavia." That wasn't in their plan. I never looked into how much role Muslims played in the long scope of it, but the religious differences certainly are at the fore now. When Tito died, I was somewhat surprised that Yugoslavia didn't blow up, but I guess the soviets kept things in check. --Vic |
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