Today we look at Tito’s post-war regime in which the ideas of Titoism take shape, namely workers’ self-management and political non-alignment. And we ask: was Tito ultimately a hero or an anti-hero?
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Time/place: Southeast Europe, 1945-1980 CE
Dead Idea: Titoism
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Slovene lands mostly covered by what is labeled Carniola and Gorizia-Gradisca in far northwest
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Dear Mr Newberg,
First I would like to compliment you for your excellent podcasts, I very much enjoyed listening to them.
I would, however, like to remark that the potica pictured in your photo slideshow is dead wrong. Potica is a sweet made of leaven dough and filling, rolled up into a loaf. The filling can be made of a variety. from ground nuts of any kind, poppies, raisins, tarragon and cottage cheese, coconut, there are even savoury varieties with lard scraps or salty butter, but the “vanilla” flavour of potica in walnut.
Google image search for potica will give you a nice variety of shapes and flavours. What your image shows is a sweet made of unleaven pastry, which would locally be called štrudl or zavitek (SHTROO-dul or zuh-VEE-teck), which is another popular sweet around here.
Greetings from Slovenia.
Hi Rok. Glad you enjoyed the series! The potica my family makes is unleavened and looks like that, but it wouldn’t be the first time our family traditions reflected a divergent variation. I’ve removed the photo. Thanks for your comment!