Remembering Milovan Djilas.(Yugoslavian political figure)

New Criterion | October 1, 1999| | Copyright

In the spring of 1967, I took a train from Ceausescu's Romania to Tito's Yugoslavia. Travel in Communist countries switched the imagination into overdrive. The books of Walter Krivitsky, Anton Ciliga, Victor Serge, George Orwell came menacingly alive. To ring someone up and propose a meeting was to do that person no service. Each encounter brought with it shades of the prison house. In Romania, I had met a former political prisoner, one of thousands sent to cut reeds in the Danube delta up to their necks in water in all seasons. In Yugoslavia, the people I knew were ...

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