“s appeal today owes less to communism, observing that most people who come to Kumrovec do not believe in communism, than to nostalgia for Tito”
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Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980. He was the longtime leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II, and one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. The political i…
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politics · Leader of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980 · politician · machinist · statesperson · resistance fighter · Esperantist · revolutionary · locksmith · marshal · also Josip Broz Tito, Josip Broz, Tito
Born 7 May 1892 · Died 4 May 1980 · Q9161
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2026· 4 entries
“s posthumous appeal centres around Tito”
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“We study and take as an example the Soviet system, but we are developing socialism in our country in somewhat different forms”
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Goal: Abdeslam Ouaddou bigs up Tito as Rele replacement at Pirates - 'He’s a clever boy, he knows exactly what we’re expecting from him'
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2021· 1 entry
To pick a historical figure who was most important for Montenegrin history, Tito came only in fourth place (chosen by 10
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2020· 1 entry
“Yugoslavia Revisited: Contested Histories through Public Memories of President Tito.”
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2013· 1 entry
Media coverage was given to a declassified NSA study in Cryptologic Spectrum that concluded Tito had not spoken Serbo-Croatian like a native speaker
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2008· 1 entry
Protests took place in what was then Zagreb's Marshal Tito Square (since 2017 the Republic of Croatia Square), organised by a group called Circle for the Square (Krug za Trg), with an aim to force the city government to
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2005· 1 entry
And the memorial service of Nelson Mandela in 2013
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2004· 1 entry
Antun Augustinčić's statue of Broz in his birthplace of Kumrovec was decapitated in an explosion
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1980· 5 entries
Died 1980-05-04.
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“Truman jest za łagodny, Tito – to za mało.”
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“Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle.”
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The intelligence services of South Africa and Argentina plotted to return the 'favour', by covertly bringing 1,500 anti-urban communist guerrillas to Yugoslavia
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It was discovered that Broz had been recommended for an award for gallantry and initiative in reconnaissance and capturing prisoners
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1977· 4 entries
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1977).
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Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1977).
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Awarded Order of the National Flag, 1st class (1977).
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And reconciling with the Chinese leadership that had once branded him a revisionist
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1974).
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Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1974).
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1972).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1972).
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1971).
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The Federal Assembly reelected Tito as president of Yugoslavia for the sixth time
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Tito offered to fly to Prague on three hours' notice if Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubček needed help in facing down the Soviets
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1967· 1 entry
It was already clear that, although Tito's economic model had achieved growth of the gross national product around 7%, it also created frequently unwise industrial investment and a chronic deficit in the nation's balance
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1966· 1 entry
An agreement with the Holy See, fostered in part by the death in 1960 of the anti-communist archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac and shifts in the church's approach to resisting communism originating in the Second Vati
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Star of People's Friendship (1965).
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1964).
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Places the number of Goli Otok inmates incarcerated between 1948-56 to be 16,554, with fewer than 600 having died during detention
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1961· 3 entries
As the "greatest crime in contemporary history"
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Tito co-founded the movement with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, in an action called The Initiative of Five, thus establishing strong ties with Third
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Career landmark: Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (1961–1964).
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1957· 1 entry
Tito boycotted the Moscow ceremonies for the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, the only communist leader who did not attend
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1956· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1956).
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Which signalled to the world that animosity between Yugoslavia and USSR was easing
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And jurisdiction of the now-defunct political prison was handed over to the government of the Socialist Republic of Croatia
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1955· 2 entries
And 1959, though he did not receive the same treatment in 1959 from the new leader, Ne Win
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And apologised for wrongdoings by Stalin, signing the Belgrade declaration
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1953· 6 entries
Relations with the USSR relaxed, and Tito began to receive aid from the Comecon as well
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Tito revealed his knowledge of Esperanto, which he had learned during his time in prison
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Tito visited Ethiopia, and in 1954, the Emperor visited Yugoslavia
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Tito travelled to Britain for a state visit and met with Winston Churchill
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Career landmark: President of Yugoslavia (1953–1980).
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Tito rarely wore his uniform except when present in a military function, and then (with rare exception) only wore his Yugoslav ribbons for practical reasons
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour (1950).
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1949· 3 entries
Who asserted there were no fundamental principled differences between Stalin and Tito
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About his wife after meeting him was that she was possibly Russian and "died many years ago"
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The crisis nearly escalated into armed conflict, as Hungarian and Soviet forces were massing on the northern Yugoslav frontier
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1948· 1 entry
Motivated by the desire to create a strong independent economy, Tito modelled his development plan independently from Moscow, which resulted in a diplomatic escalation followed by a bitter exchange of letters in which Ti
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1946· 9 entries
Won Czechoslovak Medal of Merit 1st Class (1946).
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Won Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945 (1946).
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Awarded Military Order of the White Lion (1946).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the White Lion (1946).
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Awarded Partisan Cross (Poland) (1946).
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Awarded Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 (1946).
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The Yugoslav Air Force shot down two US transport aircraft
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And Tito insisted that she be buried in the backyard of the Beli Dvor, his Belgrade residence
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The last time Haas saw Broz was in 1946.
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Freedom (Yugoslavia) (1945).
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Awarded Order of Victory (1945).
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Suvorov, 1st class (1944).
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Awarded People's Hero of Yugoslavia (1944).
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Career landmark: President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia (1944–1963).
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1943· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the People's Liberation (1943).
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In Jajce during the second meeting of AVNOJ after she reportedly walked in on him and Davorjanka
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Haas and Tito suddenly parted company in 1943 in Jajce during the second meeting of AVNOJ after she reportedly walked in on him and Davorjanka.
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1941· 1 entry
Žarko joined the Red Army to fight the invading Germans
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1936· 1 entry
When Tito stayed at the Hotel Lux in Moscow, he met the Austrian Lucia Bauer
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1925· 1 entry
The now unemployed Broz moved to Kraljevica on the Adriatic coast, where he started working at a shipyard to further the aims of the CPY
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1924· 3 entries
They had five children, but only their son Žarko Leon Broz (born 4 February 1924) survived.
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Pelagija gave birth to a boy, Žarko, who survived
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Broz was elected to the CPY district committee, but after he gave a speech at a comrade's Catholic funeral, he was arrested when the priest complained
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1920· 1 entry
Entered the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
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1918· 1 entry
Was brought to Omsk, Russia, as a prisoner of war
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1914· 1 entry
The 25th Croatian Home Guard Regiment marched toward the Serbian border
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1907· 1 entry
His father wanted him to immigrate to the United States but could not raise the money for the voyage
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-05-07.
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