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AFTER TITO... Europe [DIR-3-'80] 1980/No. 34 by Dennison I. Rusinow AFTER TITO... Europe [DIR-3-'80] "Comrade Tito has died. ments are no less true for excessive repetition: Josip Broz, called Tito, peasant of Kumrovec and "On May 4th at 3:05 P.M. in Ljubljana the migrant metalworker, veteran of the October great heart of the President of our Socialist Fed- Revolution and maker of his own, organizer and eral Republic of Yugoslavia and President of the hero of Yugoslavia's epic Partisan struggle, Presidency of the SFRY, the President of the father of his reborn country and its ruler and League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Marshal of symbol for 35 years. He successfully defied Yugoslavia and Supreme Commander of the Hitler's legions, the living Stalin, and the logic of Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia's smallness, backwardness, and place of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, stopped on the map, so that under him it became the beating most genuinely independent state the Balkan peninsula has known since the fourteenth With this proclamation, issued three hours century and enjoyed a global prominence and after the event by a joint meeting of Yugoslavia's influence vastly disproportionate to its size. He State and Party Presidencies, the world learned was the patron of his country's ingenious political that Tito's four-month death agony had finally and social experiments and "the last of the Habs- ended. And with the death of Tito, three days burgs" (using A.J.P. Taylor's frequently quoted before his 88th birthday, an era not only in Yugo- label) for his success in ruling the most multi- slav history, but in world history, ended. "A national and unruly of the Habsburg Empire's legend in his own lifetime," as his fellow-Croat successor states, and for a style and purpose of Vladimir Bakari called him in an eulogy the rule that had more in common with Joseph II and following day, Tito was the last survivor of those Leopold II, the Habsburg "enlightened despots" who led their peoples in and after World War II of the eighteenth century, than with modern and whose names are worldwide symbols of their forms of despotism. Triumphant heretic and ulti- generation and the mid-century drama of con- mate doyen of world communism, he was also the flict, triumph and tragedy, heroism and infamy last surviving founder of nonalignment and in which they were the most prominent actors. latterly elder statesman to the world, listened to Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, with respect and as an equal by the rulers of De Gaulle, Gandhi, Chiang, Mao, many lesser Super, Great, and ordinary Powers on all the heroes and villains, and finally Tito...now all continents and of every ideological persuasion. gone) Radio and television stations around the world interrupted their programs when the news His state funeral in Belgrade on May 8, 1980, came at 6:46 P.M. West European time, and in was attended by the most impressive panoply of Norway Prime Minister Odvar Nordli came in world leaders ever assembled for such an occa- person to the television studio to make the sionincluding 4 kings, 31 presidents, 6 princes announcement to his countrymen. from reigning families, 10 vice presidents, 22 prime ministers, 11 presiding officers of national Perhaps Tito was indeed, as some obituaries parliaments, 12 deputy heads of government, and claimed, the last titan of the twentieth century. 47 foreign ministers. Their presence and the The cliches that describe his life and accomplish- attention lavished on his dying and funeral by the 2/DIR-3-'80 world press were a testimonial to Tito's multiple confidential briefing papers in the pockets of significance, to his stature and importance in some of the visiting heads of state and govern- history and as a national and world leader, and to ment. his passing as a symbol of end-of-era. "Future histories" for a Yugoslavia without They also bore witness to concern about the Tito are almost as numerous as the scholars, future. The end of one era logically implies the journalists, and embassies or intelligence services beginning of another. The moment of transition who have composed them, and as a consequence for which Tito's death is a worldwide symbol and of Tito's unanticipated longevity, many are a Yugoslav reality is accompanied by grim nearly as old. At one extreme, discounted by all omensthe gathering storm of Cold War II, responsible observers, is a forcible and virtually serious economic troubles almost everywhere, immediate reincorporation of communist but and multiple domestic and international crises independent and nonaligned Yugoslavia into the and confrontations dangerously concentrated Soviet bloc, with all that implies. A Belgrade along the arc of the Near and Middle East, a black-humor reference to this scenario made the region of enduring and once again crucial geo- rounds after Edvard Kardelj, the Yugoslav political importance and fragility in which the regime's number two political personality and lands of today's Yugoslavia and those of Iran and chief ideologist, died in February 1979. The Afghanistan are traditionally regarded as the Soviet leaders, who had always disliked him, western and eastern anchors. These considera- ostentatiously failed to send anyone to his tions, coupled with widespread uncertainty and funeral. According to the joke, unfortunately re- speculation concerning the role and even the via- peated as fact rather than fiction by one Western bility of post-Tito Yugoslavia, were also reflected columnist when Tito lay dying a year later, the in the "world summit" at the funeral and among Yugoslavs complained to the Russians about this the horde of foreign journalists encamped in Bel- slight and were told: "Kardelj really wasn't very grade and Ljubljana, virtually without a break, important, you know, but please don't worry: since Tito's final illness began four months when Tito dies, we'll all be there!" earlier. The Red Army did not come to the funeral, The myriad bilateral "mini-summits" that although Brezhnev did. This scenario, .however, the attending presidents and prime ministers does have more sophisticated and longer-range engaged in before and after the funeral, versions which must be taken more seriously. sometimes formally at embassies or hotel suites One of the most popular begins with the proposi- and sometimes catch-as-catch-can in hotel tion that Tito was the only and indispensable lobbies and even elevators, were a further testi- linchpin that held Yugoslavia's traditionally mony to concern as well as products of oppor- quarrelsome nationalities together and gave his tunity. Taken all together the agendas of these country's independence and "self-management" meetings comprised a catalogue of most of the system a legitimacy peculiarly linked to his per- world's current international crises and prob- son. With his departure quarrels among the lems, from Afghanistan, Iran, the demise of nationalities will become increasingly unman- dtente and East-West relations in general to ageable, a political system based on an unstable partly subsidiary regional issues like inter- mix of Party control and a "pluralism of self- German and Indo-Chinese relations, the Cyprus management interests," and on "collective and Palestinian problems, and those of the Euro- leadership" by national-regional representatives pean Community. of inferior quality and no pan-Yugoslav legiti- macy, will break down. Civil war will threaten or As for the place and role of the host country in ensue. At that point, or even earlier, someone will this troubled new era, the public record con- appeal to the Soviet Union for "fraternal aid" to tained only generalized promises of support for "save Yugoslav socialism" (and unity). The and noninterference in post-Tito Yugoslavia Russians will feel obliged to respond, their inter- found (respectively) in Western and in Soviet vention will encounter widespread and effective official and quasi-official statements issued for armed resistance, the resisters will in turn appeal the occasion. Discussion of the circumstances for outside help...and we are all on our merry that might require such support or tempt some- way to World War III. one to a violation of noninterference was left to the Western, the Third World, and (by inference At the other extreme there are those who con- only) the Yugoslav pressand presumably to fidently predict a tranquil transition and a stable DIR-3-'80/3 post-Tito Yugoslavia in which there will also be pital for medical treatment. It was only later that rapid progress toward more participation by some viewers remembered noticing that he more people and "plural interests" in more and seemed to be walking with more difficulty than higher levels of public decision-makingi.e., he had at the nonaligned summit meeting in more democracy and "social self-management" Havana the preceding September or during sub- as posited in Yugoslav theories of socialist sequent autumn trips to Kosovo and the Middle democracy. This will be accompanied by more East. "withering away of the [Communist] Party" as an ultimately centralized and authoritarian political The shock of realization that Tito not only agency, by an international nonalignment that could die but was doing so came at a moment becomes increasingly Eurocentric, and by in- when the Yugoslavs, like the rest of the world, creasing economic interdependence with Western were still absorbing and weighing the implica- Europe and, to a lesser extent, the Third World. tions of another surprise, the Soviet invasion of In other words, a Yugoslavia still intact, inde- Afghanistan, also a Communist-ruled but non- pendent, nonaligned, communist-with-a-differ- aligned country whose buffer-state function in a ence that tilts further toward pluralism and strategically sensitive area had seemed to endow "democracy," and in all these qualities a Yugo- it with a degree of at least military untoucha- slavia still useful to the wider world as both an bility.
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