Yugoslavia. In an interview with a British magazine published in 1979, Tito’s right-hand man, Milovan Gilas, outlined the methods used to resolve the problem of collaborationism in the immediate post-war period. Tito essentially recognized the limitations of his country, particularly its judicial system, and decided to do without it altogether. He closed the matter once and for all, without any court, and decided to eliminate all 20,000-30,000 people under investigation, thus closing the matter. The Nazi terror was over, the Communist terror began.
