Autographs
In 1971, my older brother and I attempted to collect the autographs of all the world leaders. We kept a detailed record of who we wrote to, who responded, and how long it took. The project lasted for several years. Here are some of our treasures!
1) Golda Meir, Israel
2) Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal
3) Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia
4) King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia
Bunjevac, Nina. 'Fatherland'. Jonathan Cape, 2014.
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Sad and bleak, like all Soviet memoir seems to be (I wonder why, not really, but y'know). A family memoir sprinkled with a history lesson. Before reading this, I knew almost nothing about Yugoslavia and its history concerning ethnic strife between Serbs and Croats. I know a little bit more now and it's surprising. You can really blame Christianity and foreign imperial powers for solidifying what is essentially an entirely fictitious divide between two peoples who were one people prior to meddling and colonisation by subsequent waves of conquering dickheads.
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'Fatherland' is short, punchy, and weaves a narrative that leaves the reader with unanswered questions. Did Nina's father find a way out like her mother requested, by orchestrating an accident while manufacturing explosives? Sure, seems like it. I like to think he chose family in his last moments.
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But ending it where she did, while suitable for the story being told, left me dissatisfied. What happened to Nina, Sarah, and Petey? And their mother and grandmother? I'll have to go looking for answers to these questions.
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Though it's a short book, it touches on a lot. Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform for criticizing Stalin, the Orwellian climate of fear and recrimination under the Soviets, a daughter seeking a fuller accounting of her father's decisions and demise. Graphic novels are a great medium for memoir. Sacco's 'Palestine' and Spiegelman's 'Maus' come to mind.
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Die neue Folge 111 zum Sozialismus in Jugoslawien ist da!
Wir sprechen über dieses Thema zusammen mit Frederik Fuß anhand der folgenden Punkte:
- Das erste Jugoslawien/Die Königsdiktatur
- Zweiter Weltkrieg und Partisanenkampf
- Gründung des zweiten Jugoslawien/Tito und Stalin/erster Fünfjahresplan/Wirtschaftskrise
- Beginn der Selbstverwaltung
- Ausweitung der Selbstverwaltung/Reformen, Struktur, Wahlsystem und Föderalismus (Verfassung von 1974)
- Probleme in der Selbstverwaltung/Staat vs Selbstverwaltung, Bürokratie, Marktmechanismen, Sonderwirtschaftszonen, Autonomie
- Einschneidendes/1968 und kroatischer Frühling - Verfassung 1974 - Verfallserscheinungen bis in die 1990er
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Wow, I read a #book about #Yugoslavia in 20th century and I intended just to have some fun, but it turns out, that Yugoslavia was a hotspot of accelerated #modernization, and that's why it finally had to lead to #CivilWar and #genocide.
Most interesting aspects:
- The plurality of breeding #nationalisms under modern market subjects conditions (#enlightenment).
- How introducing state #communism first created #capitalist production and #consumption under #Tito.
- How with every try to become more capitalistic/liberal the crisis worsened till #collapse.
- And how the collapse led back to nationalisms, instead of questioning markets and enlightenment and to the final genocide. (Still reading here)
Mega book. Guess only in German. 
It always amazes me that tankies, after shedding the brainwashing and manufactured consent of the imperial core just.. take other nation states at their word. Oh the DPRK says they’re anti-imperialist? Well then there is no way China can be imperialist if the two countries are friends!
France’s motto is “freedom, equality, and brotherhood” and the US are allies with France so *obviously* the US is an agent of equality, right??
Stylo the evil Werunicorn 
