Post by MiG on Jan 30, 2009 2:39:18 GMT -5
It is a Disgrace to Have Tito Square in Zagreb
After two protests in 2008 did not have results, the Croatian Culture Movement decided that they will reach their aim via a petition. A public call has been posted on the internet, that calls for signatures to rename the “Square of Marshall Tito” into “Theatre Square”. For now, there are only 72 signatures, and when enough signatures are collected, the petition will be sent to the city government and the Croatian parliament.
The event that prompted the online petition was the book “Tito’s Secret Years in Moscow 1935-1940” whose author is Silvin Eiletz, which was recently published in Zagreb, in Croatian. The mentioned book, as internet sites state, brings shocking revelations from the Russian archive of social and political history, how Josip Broz Tito became the head of the Yugoslav Party, where he was and what he did from leaving jail after the “bomb process” in 1935, to his return to Zagreb in 1940.
The announced archives fill the biggest hole in Yugoslav history
“It really is, regardless of political orientation, a disgrace to have a square in Zagreb that carries the name Josip Broz” says the association for protecting citizen’s rights.
The publicist Ratko Boskovic left comments about the book on the internet. He stressed that those archives, which were strictly secret until recently, fill the biggest “black hole” in newer Yugoslav and Croatian history, reveal events and facts that Josip Broz kept secret or lied about.
“The documents that the author pulled into the light of day are the original “characteristics” that Josip Broz personally, under the code name Valter, wrote in Moscow for the Soviet secret police GPU/NKVD about their pre-war party colleagues. The documents reveal that Broz himself, voluntarily, offered to write the characteristics. The author concluded that Tito was the “biggest denouncer in Eastern Europe”. He betrayed and sent to death or Gulag; both of his wives at the time, numerous personal friends and benefactors, states the publicist Boskovic. He added that all of those characteristics are negative and traitorously blacken Tito’s party comrades.
Practicing Stalin’s doctrine, Tito sent party heads into camps
Also, Boskovic mentioned Stalin’s praise, who said that Tito is a “ hero who killed all of his rivals”.
The author of the book “Tito’s Secret Years in Moscow 1935-1940” knew Milovan Djilas, who wrote that of the 2,500 members of the party before the war, around 800 of them were liquidated in Moscow.
The Soviet Union rehabilitated all of them after the war, but Yugoslavia did not. They remained unknown to the public. In another part of the book the author brings the shocking story of concentration camps on the islands of Sveti Grgur and Goli Otok, where Tito, practicing Stalin’s doctrine that he learned and accepted in Moscow, placed all of the remaining pre-war party members that somehow survived his pre-war “cleaning”. The most interesting documents were when Josip Broz Tito personally wrote to Moscow or sent to the heads of Stalin’s secret police on Paris, Vienna and Yugoslavia, are published in the book in facsimile – it says on the website (in Croatian) www.petitiononline.com/001kaz/petition.html, and calls citizens to join in the petition.
After two protests in 2008 did not have results, the Croatian Culture Movement decided that they will reach their aim via a petition. A public call has been posted on the internet, that calls for signatures to rename the “Square of Marshall Tito” into “Theatre Square”. For now, there are only 72 signatures, and when enough signatures are collected, the petition will be sent to the city government and the Croatian parliament.
The event that prompted the online petition was the book “Tito’s Secret Years in Moscow 1935-1940” whose author is Silvin Eiletz, which was recently published in Zagreb, in Croatian. The mentioned book, as internet sites state, brings shocking revelations from the Russian archive of social and political history, how Josip Broz Tito became the head of the Yugoslav Party, where he was and what he did from leaving jail after the “bomb process” in 1935, to his return to Zagreb in 1940.
The announced archives fill the biggest hole in Yugoslav history
“It really is, regardless of political orientation, a disgrace to have a square in Zagreb that carries the name Josip Broz” says the association for protecting citizen’s rights.
The publicist Ratko Boskovic left comments about the book on the internet. He stressed that those archives, which were strictly secret until recently, fill the biggest “black hole” in newer Yugoslav and Croatian history, reveal events and facts that Josip Broz kept secret or lied about.
“The documents that the author pulled into the light of day are the original “characteristics” that Josip Broz personally, under the code name Valter, wrote in Moscow for the Soviet secret police GPU/NKVD about their pre-war party colleagues. The documents reveal that Broz himself, voluntarily, offered to write the characteristics. The author concluded that Tito was the “biggest denouncer in Eastern Europe”. He betrayed and sent to death or Gulag; both of his wives at the time, numerous personal friends and benefactors, states the publicist Boskovic. He added that all of those characteristics are negative and traitorously blacken Tito’s party comrades.
Practicing Stalin’s doctrine, Tito sent party heads into camps
Also, Boskovic mentioned Stalin’s praise, who said that Tito is a “ hero who killed all of his rivals”.
The author of the book “Tito’s Secret Years in Moscow 1935-1940” knew Milovan Djilas, who wrote that of the 2,500 members of the party before the war, around 800 of them were liquidated in Moscow.
The Soviet Union rehabilitated all of them after the war, but Yugoslavia did not. They remained unknown to the public. In another part of the book the author brings the shocking story of concentration camps on the islands of Sveti Grgur and Goli Otok, where Tito, practicing Stalin’s doctrine that he learned and accepted in Moscow, placed all of the remaining pre-war party members that somehow survived his pre-war “cleaning”. The most interesting documents were when Josip Broz Tito personally wrote to Moscow or sent to the heads of Stalin’s secret police on Paris, Vienna and Yugoslavia, are published in the book in facsimile – it says on the website (in Croatian) www.petitiononline.com/001kaz/petition.html, and calls citizens to join in the petition.
Source: www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=220304