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 was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. The political ideology and policies associated with his rule are known as Titoism.
Background
- Born in
- Kumrovec
- Educated at
- International Lenin School
- Awards
- 🏆 People's Hero of Yugoslavia🏆 Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau
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Trending topics shown first"The bishops play the hero and say they are ready to fight, even if it costs them their lives. The fight against whom? Against the people's government, of course, against our new democratic Yugoslavia …"
"Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year."
"I knew that many things were wrong... I witnessed a great many injustices... But it was my revolutionary duty at the time not to criticize and not to help alien propaganda against , for at that time i…"
"Comrade Khrushchev often repeats that Socialism cannot be built with American wheat. I think it can be done by anyone who knows how to do it, while a person who doesn't know how to do it cannot build …"
"If you saw what I see for the future in Yugoslavia, it would scare you."
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1892
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Birth1980
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