Tito and the public

19.July 2023 Ivan Ivanji

The best bad speaker in the world

The public appearances of the president were seriously prepared. Individual ministries or other institutions made written proposals, and the commission in his cabinet, which we called the "marshal", would clarify everything. Tito gave speeches in public relatively often, but always on a specific occasion, sticking to the topic, always presenting the position of the president of the country. He would rarely deviate from the pre-written text. Those performances never turned into some sort of chat with the audience, no matter who he was talking to. I got the impression that he hated reading the speeches they wrote for him, even though he would look at them first and approve them

Serbia

30.April 2023. I.Đ.

"Spit and sing": The number of Yugoslavs increased in the new census

In the 2011 census, there were 23.303 citizens living in Serbia who declared themselves as residents of a country that has not existed for a long time, while in last year's census there were 27.143. Is it just about nostalgia, or some kind of protest against the current moment in the Balkans?

In the New Year's double issue: The beginning of journalism in SFRY

29.December 2022 Ivan Ivanji

Once upon a time in Yugoslavia

The head of Serbian agitprop, Comrade Gedža, thought that I should work in the editorial office of "Omladina". At the time, I did not pay attention to the fact that Comrade Gedža's civil name was Dobrica Ćosić; we also knew about Tito that his name was Josip Broz, but he was simply Tito. At the time, no one had any idea what Comrade Gedža would become: an award-winning and celebrated writer, dissident, president of Yugoslavia, father of the nation. For me at that time he was Agitprop, meaning the controller of destiny, it didn't occur to me to protest

News

25.September 2022 S.Ć.

Exhibition Mrđan Bajić: Unreliable Storyteller

From the eighties until now, Mrđan Bajić talks and comments about himself and us with sculptures, drawings, and art. In the Museum of Contemporary Art, 168 of his works were exhibited as part of the retrospective exhibition "Unreliable Narrator".

From the archive

18.September 2022 Aleksandar Ciric

Enjoyment time: Sleep

"Like any dream about something past, That Yugoslavia can bring tears to the dreamer. He is happy ("as in a dream"). But there are not only happy dreams: Yugoslavia is also a nightmare that makes life miserable for those who have their historical/historical missions did it by breaking it up as best they could, i.e. to the ground," wrote Aleksandar Ćirić in "Vremen" in 1998

On this day

26.June 2022 Momir Turudić

War in Slovenia: They seem to want to secede, and we seem to not let them

On June 26, 1991, the Yugoslav People's Army launched an action in Slovenia, trying to prevent the separation of this republic from the SFR Yugoslavia. The ten-day war in Slovenia was the forerunner of all other "Yugoslav" wars that followed. JNA soldier Bahrudin Kaletović became a symbol of that war and a symbol of normalcy in the midst of the madness that was to come ("Vreme" No. 1068, 23.06.2011/XNUMX/XNUMX)

In memoriam

01.May 2022. Zlatko Montenegrin

Ivica Osim (1941-2022): Strauss from Grbavica

As a man, Osmas was decorated above all with the alchemical charm of receptivity, humanity and dignity, wherever he lived and worked. There was no vanity, pride or vanity with him, endemic so typical for this climate, and sport in itself

Half a century since the assassination of John F. Kennedy

13.November 2013 Ivan Ivanji

Impossible hits

Yugoslav experts staged the assassination of the US president and came to the conclusion that the official version of the American security agencies is simply impossible. That report was never published