Vladimir Orsag with Wife Lidija Photo: Jadranka Juresko-Kero/VLM
A good part of the human race whose lives have been brushed by WWII and post-WWII Communist crimes wait patiently, albeit in pain, for the dawn that will bring meaningful prosecution and condemnation of Communist crimes. If it were up to many from former Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito would be the first in line to answer for these horrendous crimes even if he is dead. There is no reason in the world why someone could not be tried and convicted by courts of justice – posthumously.
Skimming through pages of many books on former Yugoslavia, searching the net for Josip Broz Tito one would come across many accolades of grandeur about the man; one would easily get the impression that the man was loved by everyone and that everyone believed in him blindly. This could not be furthest from the truth. The man was a ruthless dictator, a bully, a communist control freak, a criminal political mind of calamitous proportions who directed purges to the same scale, if not proportionally greater than Stalin.
The fact remains that even to this day the people of former Yugoslavia do not really know who Tito was. Decades of speculations as well as research findings about the identity of the former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito point to some unshakeable findings that this man was a fraud, a false identity served to the gullible nation in order to further and establish a strong communist rule.
A couple days ago I came across an article in Vecernji List written by journalist Jadranka Juresko-Kero – “Tito is not Josip Broz, research reveals he was a double”. The article writes about the author of the internationally acclaimed novel “The Balkans Conspiracy” by Croatian born author Vladimir Orsag, but as expected, not at all widely known in former Yugoslavia, in Croatia. The book takes you into the dangerous cloak and dagger world of international conflict, espionage and assassination, The Balkans Conspiracy draws the veil from the mysterious background of Josip Broz – Marshal Tito – and explores how, he reversed the balance of power in the Balkans.
The contents of this book bring to the surface yet another facet to the terrible deceit served upon innocent people by the powerful of the past, when anything was possible. I will continue this post with my translation of the article by Jadranka Juresko-Kero, trusting it will move you to seek out “The Balkans Conspiracy” and strengthen the resolve to pursue prosecution and condemnation of Communist crimes. Ina Vukic, Prof. (Zgb); B.A., M.A., Ps. (Syd)
Vecernji List article:
In his historical novel “The Balkans Conspiracy” Australian-Croatian author Vladimir Orsag reveals the truth about Josip Broz Tito and warns:
People still do not know the real Croatian truth of the 20th Century!
“In 1936, in Paris, Josip Broz Tito stated that he was born in the village of Klanjec, which is seven kilometers from Kumrovec. That’s what Michael Padeva wrote in his book ‘Marshal Tito’, but no one in Croatia talks about that. My research confirms that Tito was a double of Josip Broz, whose life and origin I have studied for years; I was interested in the secrecy and the mystery of the Communist leader’s past who, with Western support, managed to change the political course in the Balkans. I was expelled from High School because my views did not overlap with the Yugoslav ideology and in 1958, together with my father, I emigrated first to Austria and then to Australia where I remain for the rest of my life”. With these words, Vladimir Orsag, born in Zagreb and permanently living in Canberra, revealed to Vecernji List the motive for his dedication to the research of Josip Broz Tito and the Croatian history as well as to his writing of modern historical novels with which he has affirmed himself in English language literature and for which he has received seven awards in the U.S.A. and in Australia. “My first novel ‘The Baron’s Legacy’ was awarded in 1987 at the International Literary competition in America. My second novel is called ‘The Balkans Conspiracy’, it was published in 2002 in Canberra, and it’s my wish to have it published in Croatia, as well, because I think that the full truth about Josip Broz Tito has not been revealed and our people deserve the full truth so that they could better understand its past and the problems they are encountering today”. Orsag said that he had come to understand, through his writing, that “there had always been Croatians who knew the truth while living in it as opposed to those who had discovered Croatia while abroad, in a foreign land“.
Orsag reveals that, from 1976 to 1982. he read history books, “dug” through archives and discovered that his knowledge of the English language was too poor for such material and, hence, he pursued perfecting his English language skills even though he graduated in 1964 from the Research Academy. “That was a specific education, such an Academy exists only in Australia among all the countries of the Southern Hemisphere. The year after I was appointed a constructor of of war ships at the Ministry of Marines in Canberra, where I had lived with my wife Lidija, who is also from Zagreb, and with my sons Tomislav and Kresimir. I worked until 1989, until I 55 years old as Public Servants in Australia were allowed to retire early. I was a private agent“. Vladimir Orsag has not visited free Croatia because the Registrar at the Medvescak council had erased him from Croatian citizenship. “My case is at the European Court of Human Rights because the Registrar had breached several paragraphs of the Convention on Human Rights. which Croatia had signed in 1993. I have chosen to write about history purposefully because I wanted to show the destiny of my people who had suffered greatly and who had always brought to the surface the people who do not work in Croatia’s interests“.
Orsag used Stephen Gazi’s book “The History of Croatia”as his reference while writing “The Balkans Conspiracy”; Gazi lectured history at University of Washington. His student was journalist Rudolph Arapovic who, after reading Orsag’s novel, said to his colleague Zlatko Markus that “they should have written about that”, wondering who the author was. With good knowledge of Croatian and Australian history, there is no problem with the reading of the novel and sorting out the author’s imagination from facts. Let’s remember that George Orwell wrote in 1949 the political novel “1984” “which was translated into 120 languages and it’s still current. The readers first thought that the novel was a product of the author’s imagination. That’s how it is with my novel. If we change the order of numbers in Orwell’s novel we get 1948, when Tito, with Nehru’s, Nasser’s, Sukarno’s … help started creating the Third block exactly the way the German philosopher, the founder of the secret society Illuminati, the architect of global government that will come through the destruction of nationalism, religion and marriages, envisioned it. Orwell wrote exactly about that at the time when only two political blocks existed – East and West. To conclude, he knew that which I discovered in my literary path”.
Vladimir Orsag was struck hard by the tragedy of Croatians in Vukovar and the Croatian Homeland War and so he wrote a short story, from a child’s perspective – “The Haunting Images”. “Watching the horrible scenes of destruction, killing, rapes and the humiliation of human dignity I remembered my father who was imprisoned in the Yugoslav prison camp in 1948, and realized that history is truly repeating itself.
“An Australian friend talked me, in 1999, into reading a book by David Icke and in it I discovered that Sir Alfred Sherman, who had worked with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was an advisor to Radovan Karadzic. I researched further and discovered that in 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev wrote to Thatcher that he is planning to let go of Communism in the Soviet Union within a year and he gave her time to prepare. He advised the American President, Reagan, about that as well, but also the Yugoslav leadership. The only person in the United Kingdom who knew about that letter was Alfred Sherman, the architect of Margaret Thatcher’s early exit from power. At the beginning of 1991 Sherman received the Medal of Knight of Great Britain and went to Pale where he became close to Karadzic. When he found out about Clinton’s Dayton Agreement, Sherman proposed to Karadzic to establish the Serbian Republic. I wrote to Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2000, asking him to send Alfred Sherman to the Hague because he could throw a light upon General Gotovina’s case. They did not react and I believe that Karadzic was not handed over to the Hague while Sherman was alive, he died in 2006. Why did Croatia not react?”
In Orsag’s archives there are communications with the Vatican, with Bill Clinton, with Austrian Chancellor Klim, with the British Prime Minister Blair.
Orsag revealed to Vecernji List that he is writing about secret war subjects, which will be revealed in England in 2045. “The tragic death of Djemal and Razija Bijedic near the Sarajevo airport in 1977 is still a secret in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Orsag claims that the Australian Croatian émigrés’ operation, led by Mario Despoja, in opening a Croatian Embassy in Canberra was meant to bombard the propaganda of the Yugoslav Embassy, which portrayed Croatians as terrorists. “We had two years of free promotions benefiting the whole of the Australian Croatian community with Despoja and the Croatian Embassy”. Replying to the question what the spider-web represents on the cover of his novel, Orsag said that the most poisonous spider in Australia has a red line on its back. “The spider for me represents Stalin with his five-armed star, and its web are the secret services that influenced the history of Croatia, such as ABWEHR – Third Reich, BND – West Germany, MI6 – Great Britain, CIA – U.S.A., Mossad – Israel, ASIO – Australia and UDBA – Yugoslavia. The red colour on my book represents Tito’s dictatorship, which chase 3 Million Croats out of their homeland”. The writing style with which Vladimir Orsag connected reality with imagination, through the use of historical personalities such as Stalin, Churchill, Kim Philby, SS General Reinhard Gehlena, Alan Dulles, Mose Pijade and others, provokes one into thinking how we have not yet fully researched the history of 20th Century Croatia.
Vladimir Orsag reveals that there is interest expressed for the making of a movie based on “The Balkans Conspiracy” script and that Prof. Ingo Petze from the Bond University and the British parliamentarian Tony Benn proposed this.
“I dedicated ‘The Balkans Conspiracy’ to my late father, Eng. Slavko August Kosutic, the former deputy of the Croatian Prime Minister (1938) and to my mentor Mira Radic Kosutic, the daughter of Stjepan Radic, who was fatally wounded in Belgrade in 1928. It’s a fact that people of such character, perseverance and beliefs are necessary for the change of the future in Croatia. I hope that my novel will assist with the familiarization with the past and that there will be no continuation of serving false information to the people”, Orsag said.
Jadranka Jureško-Kero
