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A Yugoslav dissident in no mood to celebrate Milovan Djilas sees more trouble ahead
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Jonathan Kaufman is a Globe foreign correspondent.
BELGRADE -- His crown of white hair shimmers against the dark wood
in his book-lined study. He moves slowly, but Milovan Djilas' face
is soft and unmarked. The suffering from the years in jail, under
monarchists in the 1930s, under communists in the 1950s and 1960s,
does not show.
"Long ago I was convinced that communism must be changed," says
Djilas. "What I was wrong about was that it would happen all at
once."
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