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January 11th, 2006

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Stop Sending People to Kill Me

Today’s quote from history is:

“Stalin: stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
-President Joseph Tito (in a note found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin)

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Mi-Hwa
January 11, 2006
6:36 pm
Stalin had a long pattern of killing off former allies. This letter is typical of that behavior. It would have been nice if Tito actually succeeded in assassinating Stalin, because it could have saved many lives.
Dan tdaxp
January 11, 2006
6:53 pm
I hereby nominate Josep Broz Tito for Coming Anarchy's 'Awesomeness Award," as soon as such an award is instituted.
Nathan
January 11, 2006
9:24 pm
I think he should be in line to receive a Montgomery Burns Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol Award
for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
davesgonechina
January 11, 2006
10:02 pm
Tito is the man.

Speaking of wacky communist dictators: Kim Jong Il Leaves House, Possibly Lost in China
Lucca2000
January 11, 2006
10:09 pm
Given Stalin´s "pristine" records, I don´t know how Tito survived, indeed, after those words.
lirelou
January 11, 2006
11:55 pm
Read an interesting article in "Historia" magazine (Fr.) a few years ago whose premise was that it was Winston Churchill who convinced Harry Truman to throw his backing behind Tito. According to the article, Truman was opposed to Tito on the grounds that he was a communist. Churchill, who had little reason to love Tito for the latter's failure to honor several agreements made during wartime, and who fully realized that Tito was as ruthless as Stalin with his own opponents, nevertheless recognized that Tito was independent and could be relied upon to support any western actions that reinforced that independence. This contradicted all the information that Truman was receiving from his own sources, but Churchill nevertheless managed to convince Truman. One of the immediate results was some sort of aid package to Yugoslavia, and the closing of Yugoslavian borders to Greek communist forces using the country as a safe haven for their own civil war. (as a footnote: The senior U.S. military advisor in Greece was none other than James Van Fleet, later commander of 8th US Army during the latter stages of the Korean War.)
Elizabeth
January 12, 2006
12:31 pm
Stalin must have had millions of those things. They just printed Tito's because he's famous.
Kelvin
January 13, 2006
4:38 am
Yah, but I'm pretty sure that all those other ones turned out to be premature, if you know what I mean.

What would be interesting, though, is how many of those things Stalin _sent_?