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hateful history Croatian neo-fascists, under the cover of anti-commu- nism and with the assistance of Croatian catholic church, flood the political publications market with books aimed to revise the Balkan history of 1940's. Among the popular subjects, fouling and slandering of Josip Broz Tito’s personality rides very high. And most of those books are poorly written, either in a hurry or by mediocre authors. Take for instance "Tito’s secret years in Moscow, 1935-1940" by Silvin Eiletz [Titove tajanstvene godine u Moskvi, 1935-1940, translated from Slovenian, Metropress, Zagreb, 2008]. Mr Eiletz counts himself among scientists although he himself is not sure if he is a philosopher or a psychoanalyst. His achievements (easily listed, there aren’t many of them) include lecturing on marxism at the Jesuit University in Buenos Aires (what a coincidence!). To make a respectable volume of 264 pages, Mr Eiletz besides 60 pages of the document scans from the Moscow archive includes 38 pages on Yugoslav communist purges 1948-1953, not whatsoever related to the title of the book, plus 6 pages of very general treatise on the origin of a communist genocidal mentality in Slovenia - not whatsoever related to the title of the book but probably the crown achievement of Mr Eiletz as a psychoanalyst which he couldn’t publish in any of the scientific journals. Well, then, in the main body of the |
book (116 pages) each fact and Eiletz’s conclusion upon it (however feeble it renders) is mentioned at least three times, some of them five or six times. Some psychoanalytic trick? Probably not, the readers are lucky for the publisher not asking more than 264 pages. Do I have to tell you that in the 264 pages there is not a single trace of some positive feature of Tito’s personality?
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