In 1947, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito visited Romania for the first time. Its communist regime gave him, as a present, a painting by the great Romanian artist Ion Andeescu: The Leafless Forest. In the 1960s, a young art critic, Radu Bogdan, decided to elaborate a monograph dedicated to the great painter, including a reproduction of the painting given to Tito. After countless problems, he obtained a permission to photograph the painting that was located in Tito's residence on the Brioni island, Croatia. The moment they took the painting off the wall and started to remove it from its frame - wires, which should not be there, appeared. And at their end - the microphone! The result? Yugoslavia was shaken by a tremor comparable to the one that hit Bucharest in 1977 - 7.5 degrees on the Richter scale! There was someone spying on Tito... |