Milovan Đilas

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Milovan Đilas (1911 – 1995) was a Yugoslavian Communist politician, theorist and, ultimately, a dissident.

• "Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy." ^{[citation needed]}
• "It is a much more formidable and difficult task to relate a historical tragedy than to take part in it." ^{[citation needed]}
• "Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long." ^{[citation needed]}
• "The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity." ^{[citation needed]}
• "The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past." ^{[citation needed]}