Thread:4th of Augustball/@comment-39545695-20200602191925/@comment-31790865-20201020025639

I am deeply sorry for my late reply, for I never got around to responding due to my own chronic laziness. As such, I will try to make this reply as fruitful (in regards to info) as possible.

The thoughts I have for Josip Broz Tito are mixed given that lest I was to ever to venture into realms of Communism myself, I would probably identity as a Titioist. Nevertheless, my disdain for Tito is one deeply routed to my disdain for the concept of the Yugoslav state itself. I shall try to explain this in the best way I can.

In my eyes, Yugoslavia is not a natural state for it does not meet the needs of the various different ethnic demographics that it seeks to encompass. A state like Yugoslavia cannot possess a defining religious orientation nor a nationalist one in fear of discriminating one of the various groups it seeks to encompass into this "Yugoslav national identity". So it is presented with two scenarios: Either engage in majoritarianism (favouring the majority ethnic group above all other ethnic groups via authoritarian means) or suppress any and all divergent national identities in the hopes of creating a new one.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia would choose the route of majoritarianism, favouring the majority Serb ethnic demographics over all others in an attempt to unite the entire country under the Serbian vision. This would, ultimately fail, as this would result in the other ethnic groups engaging in reactionary based nationalisms, thus resulting in their own sentiments to either allign themselves with foreign powers or seek independence of their own. Tito understood this and so he would attempt to create a new, distinct, Yugoslav national identity. This approach, in my eyes, was also a failure. His attempts to keep them from the public eye, whether through active suppression or simply via ignoring them, did not destroy the nationalisms these countries possessed. Simply put: One cannot destroy nationalism unless they completely destroy all of it's institutions (including Church, History, Culture, etc).

As such, his insistence on maintaining the Yugoslav state (a state which was not natural and could have never succeeded unless the Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, North Macedonian and Slovenian cultures were completely wiped out) is why I disdain his approach. This, plus other things like influencing the North Macedonians into thinking that they some how possessed territorial irredentist goals against Greece and were culturally and ethnically different from their neighbour Bulgaria along with his active funding of Communist Greek rebels during the Greek Civil War, is why I despise him in these regards as well.