Biography | Josip Broz : Conspiracy

Masoni u Jugoslaviji

“The wave of Serbian historical revisionism, attended as it was by the appearanceof revealing memoirs by various Communist leaders⁵⁹ and publications onMasons and other creators of “secret histories,”⁶⁰ could not by itself be a decisivethreat to the stability of nationality relations as long as it was not an immediateinstrument of political contention.”
[fn 59] On September 18, 1987, at a session of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) CentralCommittee, General Nikola LjubiEiC, Tito’s longtime minister of defense, denounced the flood ofSerbian memoirs: “Here, you see, we have memoirs of KoEa PopoviC, Milovan Djilas, Vojan LukiC,Mirko MarkoviC, Mirko PeroviC, Milija KovaEeviC, Gustav Vlahov, Patriarch DoiiC, Radivoje JovanoviC, Ljubodrag DjuriC, and I don’t know who else. What will it mean for Serbia when all of these memoirs are published, and what will the world think of us?” Cited in Slavoljub DjukiC, Kako se dogodio uodja: Borbe za ulast u Srbiji posle Josipa Broza (Belgrade, 1992), 160.
[fn 59] See especially Zoran D. NeneziC, Masoni u Jugoslauiji (1 764-1980): Pregled istomje slobodnog zidarstua uJugoslauiji; Pn’lozi i gradja (Belgrade, 1984). NeneziC insinuated that Tito and Kardelj were Masons and that they belonged to the pro-federalist Masonic lodge with Juraj KrnjeviC and Juraj Sutej, leaders of the Croat Peasant Party; 417, 634, 646, 649, 665. For a polemic on this issue, see Letters to the Editor, NZN (October 7, 1984): 4-6, 8. Fascination with Masons was not exclusive to Serbia. For a Croat equivalent, see Ivan MuiiC, Masonstuo u Hruata: Masoni iJugoslauGa (Zagreb, 1983).

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