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The president-elect of the United States, Joe biden, I was a fan of Titus, The executioner of the Italians thrown into the sinkholes? Relations were certainly direct and very cordial, as shown in a letter from the then senator to “His Excellency Marshal Josip Broz Tito.” And from a surprising declaration of love at first sight by the vice president of the United States visiting Belgrade about the first time with the communist leader: “One of the most fascinating encounters I have ever had in my life.” Not to mention Biden’s book where he defines Tito as “a genius.”
In 1979, Biden had gone to Ljubljana with an American delegation for “the sad disappearance of Edvard kardelj”, Right arm of Tito, one of those responsible for the exodus of 250,000 Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia after the end of the Second World War. The future US president in the letter of March 1, 1979 wrote to the dictator: “Dear Mr. President, I wish to thank you again for your valuable hospitality during my recent visit to Yugoslavia.” And he added that he greatly appreciates “our exchange of views.”
The Delaware senator elected six years earlier had joined a delegation led by Averell Harriman, former governor and diplomat of New York. the New York Times wrote that the names of the members of the delegation were secret. Biden, 37, probably had no idea who the ideologue and former Foreign Minister Kardely really was at a state funeral. Yesterday the Union of Istrians published the letter with a title that leaves no doubt: “Joe Biden and Marshal Tito, in 1979 it was love at first sight.” The exile association recalls that Kardelj was sent by Tito along with “Milovan Gilas to Istria in 1946 to organize anti-Italian propaganda directed at the exodus” against communism and the violence of the sinkholes. Not only that: Kardelj, at Tito’s request, also took care of the slaughter of a quarter of a million Slovenian, Croatian and Serb prisoners who had fought with the Axis during World War II or were anti-communist partisans. “On June 24, 1945, the order came from Edvard Kardelj of Belgrade to accelerate the ‘clean-up’ in Slovenia because the amnesty was close by,” reveals Joze Dezman, chairman of the Ljubljana government commission on sinks and mass graves hidden during 70 years . “The massacres had started in the cities using anti-tank ditches to bury the victims as in Maribor – explains Dezman – but the Soviets advised the Titoites to make the prisoners disappear in more remote areas.” Starting with the Kocevie forest that has become a huge hidden cemetery. Tito’s desired strategy of terror and mass elimination to end anyone who might oppose socialist Yugoslavia.
Despite the marshal’s bloodstained hands, Biden was delighted to have been invited after the funeral at Tito’s residence in Split in 1979. And he recalled this in an official speech by the deputy of Barack Obama in Belgrade on August 19, 2016. Not only for Biden it was “one of the most fascinating encounters I have ever had in my life”. The number two of the White House added that “we were sitting at a table in the dining room (….)”, Like old friends, even though Tito was guilty of war crimes. The then vice president remembers that the marshal spoke of “Joseph Stalin me Franklin Roosevelt. It was as if the story came to life. That was my first visit. And I’ve been here several times since then. ” Without ever denouncing the crimes of Tito, like the sinkholes, against his people and the Italians. On the contrary, in 2007, Biden, in his book Promises to keep wrote: “From 1945 to 1980, Josip Broz Tito ruled Yugoslavia with personality, determination and an efficient secret police. The cunning old communist held together an ethnically and religiously mixed federation. “And again:” It took a certain genius to hold that multi-ethnic federation together and that particular genius was Tito. “
After all, the marshal, the year before his death, had responded to young Senator Biden’s letter stating that he will be heading … to the White House.
