Josip Broz Tito

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Josip Broz Tito

1st Secretary-General

of the Non-Aligned Movement

In office

1 September 1961 ʹ 5 October 1964

Preceded by Position created

Succeeded by Gamal Abdel Nasser

1st President of Yugoslavia

In office

14 January 1953 ʹ 4 May 1980

Prime Minister Himself (1953ʹ1963)

Petar Stambolić (1963ʹ1967)

Mika Špiljak (1967ʹ1969)

Mitja Ribičič (1969ʹ1971)

Džemal Bijedić (1971ʹ1977)

Veselin Đuranović (1977ʹ1980)

Preceded by Ivan Ribar

(as President of the Presidency of the People's Assembly)

Succeeded by Lazar Koliševski

(as President of the Presidency of SFR Yugoslavia)

1st Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia

In office

29 November 1943 ʹ 29 June 1963

President Ivan Ribar (1945ʹ1953)

Himself (1953ʹ1963)

Preceded by Position created

Succeeded by Petar Stambolić

1st Federal Secretary of People's Defence

In office

29 November 1945 ʹ 14 January 1953

Prime Minister Himself

Preceded by Position created

Succeeded by Ivan Gošnjak

7th Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

In office

November 1936 ʹ 4 May 1980

Preceded by Milan Gorkić

Succeeded by Branko Mikulić

Born 7 May 1892[nb 1]

Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary

(today's Croatia)

Died 4 May 1980 (aged 87)

Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia

(today's Slovenia)

Resting place House of Flowers

44°47 12 N 20°27 06 E

Nationality Yugoslav

Ethnicity Croat

Political party League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)

Spouse(s) Pelagija Broz (1919ʹ1939), div.

Herta Haas (1940ʹ1943)

Jovanka Broz (1952ʹ1980)

Domestic partner Davorijanka Paunović

Children Zlatica Broz, Hinko Broz, Žarko Leon Broz and Aleksandar Broz

Occupation Machinist, revolutionary, resistance commander, statesman

ReligionNone (Atheist)[1]

Signature

Military service

Allegiance Austria-Hungary

Yugoslavia

Service/branch Yugoslav People's Army

All (supreme commander)

Years of service 1913ʹ1915

1941ʹ1980

Rank Marshal of Yugoslavia

Commands Yugoslav Partisans

Yugoslav People's Army

Battles/wars World War I

Spanish Civil War

World War II
Awards 119 awards, including

Order of the Yugoslav Star

Légion d'honneur

Order of the Bath

Order of Lenin

Order of Merit of Italy

(short list below, full list in the article)

Josip Broz Tito (born Josip Broz; Cyrillic script: ʵ̨̛̭̪ ʥ̨̬̚ ˃̨̛̯; 7 May 1892[nb 1] ʹ 4 May 1980) was a
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman.[2] While his presidency has been criticized as
authoritarian,[3][4][5] Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a
unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation.[6][7] He gained international attention as
the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, working with Nehru of India and Nasser of Egypt.[8]

Josip was born as the seventh child of Franjo and Marija Broz in the village of Kumrovec within Austria-
Hungary (modern-day Croatia). Drafted into the army, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest
Sergeant Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army.[9] Josip was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains,
after being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians. He participated in the October Revolution,
and later joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in a newly created
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

He was Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939ʹ80), and
went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Yugoslav Partisans (1941ʹ45).[10]
After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1943ʹ63) and later President (1953ʹ80) of the Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of
Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army
(JNA). With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, Josip Broz Tito received some
98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour, and the Order of the Bath.

Tito was the chief architect of the "second Yugoslavia", a socialist federation that lasted from World War
II until 1991. Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he was also the first (and the only
successful) Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony. A backer of independent roads to socialism
(sometimes referred to as "national communism" or "Titoism"), he was one of the main founders and
promoters of the Non-Aligned Movement, and its first Secretary-General. He supported the policy of
nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold War. Such successful diplomatic and economic
policies allowed Tito to preside over the Yugoslav economic boom and expansion of the 1960s and
'70s.[11][12][13] His internal policies included the suppression of nationalist sentiment and the
promotion of the "brotherhood and unity" of the six Yugoslav nations. He remains a controversial figure
in the Balkans.Contents [hide]

1 Early life

1.1 PreʹWorld War I

1.2 Prisoner and revolutionary

2 World War II leader

2.1 People's Liberation War

2.2 Aftermath of World War II

3 President of Yugoslavia

3.1 Tito-Stalin split

3.2 Non-aligned Yugoslavia

3.3 Foreign policy

4 Final years and aftermath

5 Family and personal life

5.1 Origin of the name "Tito"

6 Historical criticism

6.1 Accusations

6.2 Partial defense

7 Awards and decorations

8 See also

9 References

10 Further reading
11 External links

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Early life

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PreʹWorld War I

Josip Broz was born on 7 May 1892[nb 1] in Kumrovec, Croatia-Hrvatsko Zagorje, Austria-Hungary. He
was the seventh child of Franjo and Marija Broz.[14] His father, Franjo Broz, was a Croat, while his
mother Marija (born Javeršek) was a Slovene. After spending part of his childhood years with his
maternal grandfather in village of Podsreda, he entered primary school in 1900 at Kumrovec, he failed
the 2nd grade and graduated in 1905. In 1907 he moved out of the rural environment and started
working as a machinist's apprentice in Sisak.[15] There, he became aware of the labor movement and
celebrated 1 May ʹ Labour Day for the first time. In 1910, he joined the union of metallurgy workers and
at the same time the Social-Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia.[16] Between 1911 and 1913, Broz
worked for shorter periods in Kamnik, Cenkovo, Munich, and Mannheim, where he worked for the Benz
auto mobile factory; he then went to Wiener Neustadt, Austria, and worked as a test driver for
Daimler.[17]

Tito's birthplace in the town of Kumrovec, Croatia.

In the autumn of 1913, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army.[18] He was sent to a school for
non-commissioned officers and became a sergeant, serving in the 25th Croatian Regiment based in
Zagreb.[19] In May 1914, Broz won a silver medal at an army fencing competition in Budapest. At the
outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was sent to Ruma, where he was arrested for anti-war propaganda
and imprisoned in the Petrovaradin fortress. In January 1915, he was sent to the Eastern Front in Galicia
to fight against Russia. He distinguished himself as a capable soldier, becoming the youngest Sergeant
Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army.[9] For his bravery in the face of the enemy, he was recommended
for the Silver Bravery Medal but was taken prisoner of war before it could be formally presented. On
Easter 25 March 1915, while in Bukovina, he was seriously wounded and captured by the Russians.[20]

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Prisoner and revolutionary

After thirteen months at the hospital, Broz was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains where
prisoners selected him for their camp leader. In February 1917, revolting workers broke into the prison
and freed the prisoners. Broz subsequently joined a Bolshevik group. In April 1917, he was arrested
again but managed to escape and participate in the July Days demonstrations in Petrograd (Saint
Petersburg) on 16ʹ17 July 1917. On his way to Finland, Broz was caught and imprisoned in the
Petropavlovsk fortress for three weeks. He was again sent to Kungur, but escaped from the train. He hid
out with a Russian family in Omsk, Siberia where he met his future wife Pelagija Belousova.[21] After the
October Revolution, he joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk. Following a White counteroffensive, he fled to
Kirgiziya and subsequently returned to Omsk, where he married Belousova. In the spring of 1918, he
joined the Yugoslav section of the Russian Communist Party. By June of the same year, Broz left Omsk to
find work and support his family, and was employed as a mechanic near Omsk for a year. In January
1920, he and his wife made a long and difficult journey home to Yugoslavia where he arrived in
September.[22]

Josip Broz Tito in 1928 as an agent of the Comintern, also known at the time as "Agent Walter"

Upon his return, Broz joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The CPY's influence on the political life
of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was growing rapidly. In the 1920 elections the Communists won 59 seats in
the parliament and became the third strongest party.[23] Winning numerous local elections, they even
gained a stronghold in the second largest city of Zagreb, electing Svetozar Delić for mayor. However,
after the assassination of Milorad Drašković, the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, by a young
communist on August 2, 1921, the CPY was declared illegal under the Yugoslav State Security Act of
1921.[24] During 1920 and 1921 all Communist-won mandates were nullified. Broz continued his work
underground despite pressure on Communists from the government. As 1921 began he moved to Veliko
Trojstvo near Bjelovar and found work as a machinist.[25] In 1925, Broz moved to Kraljevica where he
started working at a shipyard.[26] He was elected as a union leader and a year later he led a shipyard
strike. He was fired and moved to Belgrade, where he worked in a train coach factory in Smederevska
Palanka. He was elected as Workers Commissary but was fired as soon as his CPY membership was
revealed. Broz then moved to Zagreb, where he was appointed secretary of Metal Workers Union of
Croatia. In 1928, he became the Zagreb Branch Secretary of the CPY. In the same year he was arrested,
tried in court for his illegal communist activities, and sent to jail.[27] During his five years at Lepoglava
prison he met Moša Pijade, who became his ideological mentor.[27] After his release, he lived incognito
and assumed a number of noms de guerre, among them "Walter" and "Tito".[28]

In 1934 the Zagreb Provincial Committee sent Tito to Vienna where all the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia had sought refuge.[29] He was appointed to the Committee and started
to appoint allies to him, among them Edvard Kardelj, Milovan Đilas, Aleksandar Ranković, and Boris
Kidrič. In 1935, Tito traveled to the Soviet Union, working for a year in the Balkan section of
Comintern.[30] He was a member of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet secret police (NKVD). In
1936, the Comintern sent "Comrade Walter" (i.e. Tito) back to Yugoslavia to purge the Communist Party
there. In 1937, Stalin had the Secretary-General of the CPY, Milan Gorkić, murdered in Moscow.[31]
Subsequently Tito was appointed Secretary-General of the still-outlawed CPY.

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World War II leader

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People's Liberation War

Main article: Yugoslav Front

On 6 April 1941, German, Italian, and Hungarian forces launched an invasion of Yugoslavia. On 10 April
1941, Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia, Tito responded by forming a
Military Committee within the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party.[32] Attacked from
all sides, the armed forces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia quickly crumbled. On 17 April 1941, after King
Peter II and other members of the government fled the country, the remaining representatives of the
government and military met with the German officials in Belgrade. They quickly agreed to end military
resistance. On May 1, 1941, Tito issued a pamphlet calling on the people to unite in a battle against the
occupation.[33] On 27 June 1941, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
appointed Tito Commander in Chief of all project national liberation military forces. On 1 July 1941, the
Comintern sent precise instructions calling for immediate action.[34]

File:LekaTitoDjido-1 in colors.jpg

Josip Broz Tito with Aleksandar Leka Ranković (left) and Milovan Đilas (right), taken near the town of
Foča, 1942.

Despite conflicts with the collaborating[35] Chetnik movement, Tito's Partisans succeeded in liberating
territory, notably the "Republic of Užice". During this period, Tito held talks with Chetnik leader Draža
Mihailović on September 19 and October 27, 1941.[36]

On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade (commanded by Koča
Popović) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade.[37] In liberated territories,
the Partisans organized People's Committees to act as civilian government. The Anti-Fascist Council of
National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) convened in Bihać on 26ʹ27 November 1942 and in Jajce on
29 November 1943.[38] In the two sessions, the resistance representatives established the basis for
post-war organization of the country, deciding on a federation of the Yugoslav nations. In Jajce, a 67-
member "presidency" was elected and established a nine-member National Committee of Liberation
(five communist members) as a de facto provisional government.[39] Tito was named President of the
National Committee of Liberation.[40]

With the growing possibility of an Allied invasion in the Balkans, the Axis began to divert more resources
to the destruction of the Partisans main force and its high command.[41] This meant, among other
things, a concerted German effort to capture Josip Broz Tito personally. On 25 May 1944, he managed to
evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar (Operation Rösselsprung), an airborne assault outside his
Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.[41]

After the Partisans managed to endure and avoid these intense Axis attacks between January and June
1943, and the extent of Chetnik collaboration became evident, Allied leaders switched their support
from Draža Mihailović to Tito. King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognizing Tito and the
Partisans at the Tehran Conference.[42] This resulted in Allied aid being parachuted behind Axis lines to
assist the Partisans. On 17 June 1944 on the Dalmatian island of Vis, the Treaty of Vis (Viški sporazum)
was signed in an attempt to merge Tito's government (the AVNOJ) with the government in exile of King
Peter II.[43] The Balkan Air Force was formed in June 1944 to control operations that were mainly aimed
at aiding his forces.[44]

On 12 September 1944, King Peter II called on all Yugoslavs to come together under Tito's leadership
and stated that those who did not were "traitors."[45] On 28 September 1944, the Telegraph Agency of
the Soviet Union (TASS) reported that Tito signed an agreement with the USSR allowing "temporary
entry" of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory which allowed the Red Army to assist in operations in the
northeastern areas of Yugoslavia.[46] With their strategic right flank secured by the Allied advance, the
Partisans prepared and executed a massive general offensive which succeeded in breaking through
German lines and forcing a retreat beyond Yugoslav borders. After the Partisan victory and the end of
hostilities in Europe, all external forces were ordered off Yugoslav territory.

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Aftermath of World War II

On 7 March 1945, the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (Demokratska
Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY) was assembled in Belgrade by Josip Broz Tito, while the provisional name
allowed for either a republic or monarchy. This government was headed by Tito as provisional Yugoslav
Prime Minister and included representatives from the royalist government-in-exile, among others Ivan
Šubašić. In accordance with the agreement between resistance leaders and the government-in-exile,
post-war elections were held to determine the form of government. In November 1945, Tito's pro-
republican People's Front, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, won the elections with an
overwhelming majority, the vote having been boycotted by monarchists.[47] During the period, Tito
evidently enjoyed massive popular support due to being generally viewed by the populace as the
liberator of Yugoslavia.[48] The Yugoslav administration in the immediate post-war period managed to
unite a country that had been severely affected by ultra-nationalist upheavals and war devastation,
while successfully suppressing the nationalist sentiments of the various nations in favor of tolerance,
and the common Yugoslav goal. After the overwhelming electoral victory, Tito was confirmed as the
Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DFY. The country was soon renamed the
Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY) (later finally renamed into Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, SFRY). On 29 November 1945, King Peter II was formally deposed by the Yugoslav
Constituent Assembly. The Assembly drafted a new republican constitution soon afterwards.

Yugoslavia organized the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslavenska narodna armija, or JNA) from the
Partisan movement and became the fourth strongest army in Europe at the time.[49] The State Security
Administration (Uprava državne bezbednosti/sigurnosti/varnosti, UDBA) was also formed as the new
secret police, along with a security agency, the Department of People's Security (Organ Zaštite Naroda
(Armije), OZNA). Yugoslav intelligence was charged with imprisoning and bringing to trial large numbers
of Nazi collaborators; controversially, this included Catholic clergymen due to the widespread
involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustaša regime. Draža Mihailović was found guilty of
collaboration, high treason and war crimes and was subsequently executed by firing squad in July 1946.

Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito met with the president of the Bishops' Conference of Yugoslavia, Aloysius
Stepinac on 4 June 1945, two days after his release from imprisonment. The two could not reach an
agreement on the state of the Catholic Church. Under Stepinac's leadership, the bishops' conference
released a letter condemning alleged Partisan war crimes in September, 1945. The following year
Stepinac was arrested and put on trial. In October 1946, in its first special session for 75 years, the
Vatican excommunicated Tito and the Yugoslav government for sentencing Stepinac to 16 years in
prison on charges of assisting Ustaše terror and of supporting forced conversions of Serbs to
Catholicism.[50] Stepinac received preferential treatment in recognition of his status[51] and the
sentence was soon shortened and reduced to house-arrest, with the option of emigration open to the
archbishop. At the conclusion of the "Informbiro period", reforms rendered Yugoslavia considerably
more religiously liberal than the Eastern Bloc states.

In the first post war years Tito was widely considered a communist leader very loyal to Moscow, indeed,
he was often viewed as second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc. Yugoslav forces shot down American
aircraft flying over Yugoslav territory, and relations with the West were strained. In fact, Stalin and Tito
had an uneasy alliance from the start, with Stalin considering Tito too independent.

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President of Yugoslavia

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Tito-Stalin split

Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito greeted by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden in
London, 1950.

Main article: Tito-Stalin split

Unlike the other new communist states in east-central Europe, Yugoslavia liberated itself from Axis
domination with limited direct support from the Red Army. Tito's leading role in liberating Yugoslavia
not only greatly strengthened his position in his party and among the Yugoslav people, but also caused
him to be more insistent that Yugoslavia had more room to follow its own interests than other Bloc
leaders who had more reasons (and pressures) to recognize Soviet efforts in helping them liberate their
own countries from Axis control. This had already led to some friction between the two countries before
World War II was even over. Although Tito was formally an ally of Stalin after World War II, the Soviets
had set up a spy ring in the Yugoslav party as early as 1945, giving way to an uneasy alliance.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, there occurred several armed incidents between Yugoslavia
and the Western Allies. Following the war, Yugoslavia acquired the Italian territory of Istria as well as the
cities of Zadar and Rijeka. Yugoslav leadership was looking to incorporate Trieste into the country as
well, which was opposed by the Western Allies. This led to several armed incidents, notably attacks by
Yugoslav fighter planes on U.S. transport aircraft, causing bitter criticism from the west. From 1945 to
1948, at least four US aircraft were shot down.[52] Stalin was opposed to these provocations, as he felt
the USSR unready to face the West in open war so soon after the losses of World War II. In addition, Tito
was openly supportive of the Communist side in the Greek Civil War, while Stalin kept his distance,
having agreed with Churchill not to pursue Soviet interests there, although he did support the Greek
communist struggle politically, as demonstrated in several assemblies of the UN Security Council. In
1948, motivated by the desire to create a strong independent economy, Tito modeled his economic
development plan independently from Moscow, which resulted in a diplomatic escalation followed by a
bitter exchange of letters in which Tito affirmed that
We study and take as an example the Soviet system, but we are developing socialism in our country in
somewhat different forms. (...) No matter how much each of us loves the land of socialism, the USSR, he
can in no case love his own country less.

ͶJosip Broz Tito[53]

Josip Broz Tito greeting Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to the Brijuni islands, Croatia, Yugoslavia (July
1953)

The Soviet answer on 4 May admonished Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) for failing to
admit and correct its mistakes, and went on to accuse them of being too proud of their successes
against the Germans, maintaining that the Red Army had saved them from destruction. Tito's response
on 17 May suggested that the matter be settled at the meeting of the Cominform to be held that June.
However, Tito did not attend the second meeting of the Cominform, fearing that Yugoslavia was to be
openly attacked. At this point the crisis nearly escalated into an armed conflict, as Hungarian and Soviet
forces were massing on the northern Yugoslav frontier.[54] On 28 June, the other member countries
expelled Yugoslavia, citing "nationalist elements" that had "managed in the course of the past five or six
months to reach a dominant position in the leadership" of the CPY. The expulsion effectively banished
Yugoslavia from the international association of socialist states, while other socialist states of Eastern
Europe subsequently underwent purges of alleged "Titoists". Stalin took the matter personally ʹ for
once, and attempted, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Tito on several occasions. In a correspondence
between the two leaders, Tito openly wrote:

Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and
another with a rifle (...) If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to
send a second.

ͶJosip Broz Tito[55]

However, Tito used the estrangement from the USSR to attain US aid via the Marshall Plan, as well as to
involve Yugoslavia in the Non-Aligned Movement, in which he assured a leading position for Yugoslavia.
The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of
socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's
claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became
the first (and the only successful) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM. This rift
with the Soviet Union brought Tito much international recognition, but also triggered a period of
instability often referred to as the Informbiro period. Tito's form of communism was labeled "Titoism"
by Moscow, which encouraged purges against suspected "Titoites'" throughout the Eastern bloc.
On 26 June 1950, the National Assembly supported a crucial bill written by Milovan Đilas and Tito about
"self-management" (samoupravljanje): a type of independent socialism that experimented with profit
sharing with workers in state-run enterprises. On 13 January 1953, they established that the law on self-
management was the basis of the entire social order in Yugoslavia. Tito also succeeded Ivan Ribar as the
President of Yugoslavia on 14 January 1953. After Stalin's death Tito rejected the USSR's invitation for a
visit to discuss normalization of relations between two nations. Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin
visited Tito in Belgrade in 1955 and apologized for wrongdoings by Stalin's administration.[56] Tito
visited the USSR in 1956, which signaled to the world that animosity between Yugoslavia and USSR was
easing.[57] However, the relationship between the USSR and Yugoslavia would reach another low in the
late 1960s. Commenting on the crisis, Tito concluded that:

To say the least - it was a disloyal, non-objective attitude towards our Party and our country. It's a
consequence of a terrible delusion that has been blown up to monstrous dimensions in order to destroy
the reputation of our Party and its leadership, to erase the glory of the Yugoslav people and their
struggle. To trample everything great that our nation achieved with great sacrifice and blood loss - in
order to break the unity of our Party, which represents a guarantee for successful development of
socialism in our country and for the establishment of happiness of our people.

ͶJosip Broz Tito[citation needed]

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Non-aligned Yugoslavia

See also: Non-Aligned Movement

Queen Elizabeth II with Josip Broz Tito during a visit to Yugoslavia, 1972; during her visit, Tito received
the Order of the Bath

Tito´s calling card from 1967

Under Tito's leadership, Yugoslavia became a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement. In 1961,
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 (Tito, Nehru, Nasser,
Sukarno, Nkrumah), thus establishing strong ties with third world countries. This move did much to
improve Yugoslavia's diplomatic position. On 1 September 1961, Josip Broz Tito became the first
Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement.
On April 7, 1963, the country changed its official name to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Reforms encouraged private enterprise and greatly relaxed restrictions on freedom of speech and
religious expression.[58] Tito subsequently went on a tour of the Americas. In Chile, two government
ministers resigned over his visit to that country.[59] Tito spoke at the United Nations General Assembly
in New York, with his visit being protested by both Croat and Serb emigrants. US Senator Thomas Dodd
subsequently said Tito had "bloodied hands." Prior to his visit to California at the invitation of Governor
Pat Brown, protesters in San Pedro drowned an effigy of Tito.[60]

In 1966 an agreement with the Vatican, spawned by the death of Stepinac in 1960 and the decisions of
the Second Vatican Council, was signed according new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman Catholic Church,
particularly to teach the catechism and open seminaries. The agreement also eased tensions, which had
prevented the naming of new bishops in Yugoslavia since 1945. Tito's new socialism met opposition
from traditional communists culminating in conspiracy headed by Aleksandar Ranković.[61] In the same
year Tito declared that Communists must henceforth chart Yugoslavia's course by the force of their
arguments (implying a granting of freedom of discussion and an abandonment of dictatorship).[citation
needed] The state security agency (UDBA) saw its power scaled back and its staff reduced to 5000.

On 1 January 1967, Yugoslavia was the first communist country to open its borders to all foreign visitors
and abolish visa requirements.[62] In the same year Tito became active in promoting a peaceful
resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His plan called for Arabs to recognize the state of Israel in
exchange for territories Israel gained.[63]

In 1967, Tito offered Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubček to fly to Prague on three hours notice if
Dubček needed help in facing down the Soviets.[64] In April 1969, Tito sacked generals Ivan Gošnjak and
Rade Hamović in the aftermath of the invasion of Czechoslovakia due to the unpreparedness of the
Yugoslav army to respond to a similar invasion of Yugoslavia.[65]

US President John F. Kennedy greeting Josip Broz Tito during his visit to the US

In 1971, Tito was re-elected as President of Yugoslavia for the sixth time. In his speech in front of the
Federal Assembly he introduced 20 sweeping constitutional amendments that would provide an
updated framework on which the country would be based. The amendments provided for a collective
presidency, a 22 member body consisting of elected representatives from six republics and two
autonomous provinces. The body would have a single chairman of the presidency and chairmanship
would rotate among six republics. When the Federal Assembly fails to agree on legislation, the collective
presidency would have the power to rule by decree. Amendments also provided for stronger cabinet
with considerable power to initiate and pursue legislature independently from the Communist Party.
Džemal Bijedić was chosen as the Premier. The new amendments aimed to decentralize the country by
granting greater autonomy to republics and provinces. The federal government would retain authority
only over foreign affairs, defense, internal security, monetary affairs, free trade within Yugoslavia, and
development loans to poorer regions. Control of education, healthcare, and housing would be exercised
entirely by the governments of the republics and the autonomous provinces.[66]

Tito's greatest strength, in the eyes of the western communists,[citation needed] had been in
suppressing nationalist insurrections and maintaining unity throughout the country. It was Tito's call for
unity, and related methods, that held together the people of Yugoslavia.[citation needed] This ability
was put to a test several times during his reign, notably during the Croatian Spring (also referred to as
masovni pokret, maspok, meaning "mass movement") when the government had to suppress both
public demonstrations and dissenting opinions within the Communist Party. Despite this suppression,
much of maspok's demands were later realized with the new constitution, heavily backed by Tito himself
against opposition from the Serbian branch of the party. On 16 May 1974, the new Constitution was
passed, and the aging Tito was named president for life, a status which he would enjoy for five years.

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Foreign policy

Left to right: Jovanka Broz, Tito, Richard Nixon, and Pat Nixon in the White House in 1971

Tito was notable for pursuing a foreign policy of neutrality during the Cold War and for establishing close
ties with developing countries. Tito's strong belief in self-determination caused early rift with Stalin and
consequently, the Eastern Bloc. His public speeches often reiterated that policy of neutrality and
cooperation with all countries would be natural as long as these countries did not use their influence to
pressure Yugoslavia to take sides. Relations with the United States and Western European nations were
generally cordial.

Yugoslavia had a liberal travel policy permitting foreigners to freely travel through the country and its
citizens to travel worldwide.[58] This was limited by most Communist countries. A number of Yugoslav
citizens worked throughout Western Europe.Tito during his rule he met many people from the world of
politics and culture, such as Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Nikita
Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi, Yasser Arafat, Willy Brandt,
Helmut Schmidt, Queen Elizabeth II, Hua Guofeng, Muammar Gaddafi, Erich Honecker, Sofia Loren,
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, and many others.

Tito also developed warm relations with Burma under U Nu, traveling to the country in 1955 and again
in 1959, though he didn't receive the same treatment in 1959 from the new leader, Ne Win.

Because of its neutrality, Yugoslavia would often be rare among Communist countries to have
diplomatic relations with right-wing, anti-Communist governments. For example, Yugoslavia was the
only communist country allowed to have an embassy in Alfredo Stroessner's Paraguay.[67] However,
one notable exception to Yugoslavia's neutral stance toward anti-communist countries was Chile under
Augusto Pinochet; Yugoslavia was one of many left-wing countries which severed diplomatic relations
with Chile after Allende was overthrown.[68] Yugoslavia also provided military aid and arms supplies to
staunchly anti-Communist regimes such as that of Guatemala under Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García.[69]

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Final years and aftermath

International delegations at the funeral of Josip Broz Tito, at the time the largest state funeral in history
by the number of attending state delegations, including four kings, 31 presidents, six princes, 22 prime
ministers and 47 ministers of foreign affairs from 128 different countries.[70]

See also: Breakup of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav wars

After the constitutional changes of 1974, Tito began reducing his role in the day-to-day running of the
state. He continued to travel abroad and receive foreign visitors, going to Beijing in 1977 and reconciling
with a Chinese leadership that had once branded him a revisionist. In turn, Chairman Hua Guofeng
visited Yugoslavia in 1979. In 1978, Tito traveled to the United States. During the visit strict security was
imposed in Washington, D.C. owing to protests by anti-communist Croat, Serb and Albanian groups.[71]

Tito became increasingly ill over the course of 1979. During this time Vila Srna was built for his use near
Morović in the event of his recovery.[72] On 7 January and again on 11 January 1980, Tito was admitted
to the Medical Centre Ljubljana (in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia) with circulation problems in his legs. His left
leg was amputated soon afterward due to arterial blockages and he died of gangrene at the Medical
Centre Ljubljana on 4 May 1980 at 3:05 pm, three days short of his 88th birthday. His funeral drew many
world statesmen.[73] Based on the number of attending politicians and state delegations, at the time it
was the largest state funeral in history.[74] They included four kings, 31 presidents, six princes, 22 prime
ministers and 47 ministers of foreign affairs. They came from both sides of the Cold War, from 128
different countries.[70]

Reporting on his death The New York Times commented

Tito sought to improve life. Unlike others who rose to power on the communist wave after World War II,
Tito did not long demand that his people suffer for a distant vision of a better life. After an initial Soviet-
influenced bleak period, Tito moved toward radical improvement of life in the country. Yugoslavia
gradually became a bright spot amid the general grayness of Eastern Europe.

ͶThe New York Times, May 5, 1980[75]

Tito was buried in a mausoleum in Belgrade, which forms part of a memorial complex in the grounds of
the Museum of Yugoslav History (formerly called "Museum 25 May" and "Museum of the Revolution").
The actual mausoleum is called House of Flowers (Kuća Cveća) and numerous people visit the place as a
shrine to "better times". The museum keeps the gifts Tito received during his presidency. The collection
also includes original prints of Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya, and many others.[76] The Government
of Serbia has planned to merge it into the Museum of the History of Serbia.[77] At the time of his death,
speculation began about whether his successors could continue to hold Yugoslavia together. Ethnic
divisions and conflict grew and eventually erupted in a series of Yugoslav wars a decade after his death.

Some 1,000 people gather near a statue of Josip Broz Tito in Sarajevo during a ceremony
commemorating the 26th anniversary of his death in 2006.

During his life and especially in the first year after his death, several places were named after Tito.
Several of these places have since returned to their original names, such as Podgorica, formerly Titograd
(though Podgorica's international airport is still identified by the code TGD), which reverted to its
original name in 1992. Streets in Belgrade, the capital, have all reverted back to their original preʹWorld
War II and pre-communist names as well. In 2004, Antun Augustinčić's statue of Broz in his birthplace of
Kumrovec was decapitated in an explosion.[78] It was subsequently repaired. Twice in 2008, protests
took place in Zagreb's Marshal Tito Square, organized by a group called Circle for the Square (Krug za
Trg), with an aim to force the city government to rename it to its previous name, while a counter-
protest by Citizens' Initiative Against Ustašism (Građanska inicijativa protiv ustaštva) accused the "Circle
for the Square" of historical revisionism and neo-fascism.[79] Croatian president Stjepan Mesić criticized
the demonstration to change the name.[80] In the Croatian coastal city of Opatija the main street (also
its longest street) still bears the name of Marshal Tito, as do streets in numerous towns in Serbia, mostly
in the country's north.[81] One of the two main streets in Sarajevo is called Marshal Tito Street.

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Family and personal life

Josip Broz, his wife Pelagija, and son Žarko in 1921

Tito carried on numerous affairs and was married several times. In 1918 he was brought to Omsk, Russia
as a prisoner of war. There he met Pelagija Belousova who was then thirteen; he married her a year
later, and she moved with him to Yugoslavia. Polka bore him five children but only their son Žarko
Leon[82] (born February 4,[82] 1924) survived.[83] When Tito was jailed in 1928, she returned to Russia.
After the divorce in 1936 she later remarried.

In 1936, when Tito stayed at the Hotel Lux in Moscow, he met the Austrian comrade Lucia Bauer. They
married in October 1936, but the records of this marriage were later erased.[84]

His next relationship was with Herta Haas, whom he married in 1940.[85] Broz left for Belgrade after the
April War, leaving Haas pregnant. In May 1941, she gave birth to their son, Aleksandar "Mišo" Broz. All
throughout his relationship with Haas, Tito had maintained a promiscuous life and had a parallel
relationship with Davorjanka Paunović, who, under the codename "Zdenka", served as a courier in the
resistance and subsequently became his personal secretary. 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.[86] The last time Haas saw Broz was in 1946.[87] Davorjanka died of tuberculosis in 1946
and Tito insisted that she be buried in the backyard of the Beli Dvor, his Belgrade residence.[88]

His best known wife was Jovanka Broz. Tito was just shy of his 59th birthday, while she was 27, when
they finally married in April 1952, with state security chief Aleksandar Ranković as the best man. Their
eventual marriage came about somewhat unexpectedly since Tito actually rejected her some years
earlier when his confidante Ivan Krajacic brought her in originally. At that time, she was in her early 20s
and Tito, objecting to her energetic personality, opted for the more mature opera singer Zinka Kunc
instead. Not one to be discouraged easily, Jovanka continued working at Beli Dvor, where she managed
the staff of servants and eventually got another chance after Tito's strange relationship with Zinka failed.
Since Jovanka was the only female companion he married while in power, she also went down in history
as Yugoslavia's first lady. Their relationship was not a happy one, however. It had gone through many,
often public, ups and downs with episodes of infidelities and even allegations of preparation for a coup
d'état by the latter pair. Certain unofficial reports suggest Tito and Jovanka even formally divorced in the
late 1970s, shortly before his death. However, during Tito's funeral she was officially present as his wife,
and later claimed rights for inheritance. The couple did not have any children.

Major Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Yugoslavia

Josip Broz Tito on the cover of Life Magazine

Tito's notable grandchildren include Aleksandra Broz, a prominent theatre director in Croatia, Svetlana
Broz, a cardiologist and writer in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Josip "Joška" Broz, Edvard Broz and Natali
Klasevski, an artisan of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

As the leader of Yugoslavia Tito maintained a lavish lifestyle and kept several mansions. In Belgrade he
resided in the official palace, Beli dvor, and maintained a separate private residence; he spent much
time at his private island of Brijuni, an official residence from 1949 on, and at his palace at the Bled lake.
His grounds at Karadjordjevo were the site of "diplomatic hunts". By 1974 Tito had 32 official
residences.[89]

As regards knowledge of languages, Tito replied that he spoke Yugoslav, German, Russian, and some
English.[90] A biographer also stated that he spoke "Serbo-Croatian ... Russian, Czech, Slovenian ...
German (with a Viennese accent) ... understands and reads French and Italian ... [and] also speaks
Kirghiz."[91]

Every federal unit had a town or city with historic significance from the World War II period renamed to
have Tito's name included. These were mostly smaller towns, with the exception of Titovo Užice and
Titograd (now Podgorica), the capital city of Montenegro. Also with the exception of Titograd, the cities
were renamed simply by the addition of the adjective "Tito's" ("Titov"). The cities were:Republic City
Original name

Bosnia and Herzegovina Titov Drvar Drvar

Croatia Titova Korenica Korenica

Macedonia Titov Veles Veles

Montenegro Titograda Podgorica

Serbia

Kosovo

Vojvodina Titovo Užice

Titova Mitrovica

Titov Vrbas Užice

Mitrovica

Vrbas

Slovenia Titovo Velenje Velenje

athe capital of Montenegro.

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Origin of the name "Tito"

Various explanations exist for the origin of the name Tito. One proposes that Tito comes from the Serbo-
Croatian variation of the name of Roman Emperor Titus. Tito's biographer, Vladimir Dedijer, however
claimed that it came from the Croatian romantic writer, Tituš Brezovački.[92] Another popular
explanation of the sobriquet claims that it is a conjunction of two Serbo-Croatian words, "ti" (meaning
"you") and "to" (meaning "that"). As the story goes, during the frantic times of his command, he would
issue commands with those two words, by pointing to the person, and then task. This explanation for
the name's origin is provided in Fitzroy Maclean's 1949 book, Eastern Approaches.[93] Maclean later
revisited and dispelled this explanation in his 1957 biography of Tito, The Heretic. There he states, "I
have always liked this story. But I am assured by Tito himself, who I suppose should know, that it is
apocryphal."[94]

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Historical criticism

US-Yugoslav summit, 1978.

[edit]

Accusations

Accusations of culpability are related with crimes perpetrated during WWII and during repression by
Broz Tito's communist Yugoslav Republic command. Mass graves are evidences of massacres.[95]Other
crime was committed in Kocevje extermination.[96][97]

During World War II, the German minority in occupied Yugoslavia enjoyed a status of superiority over
the Yugoslav population.[98] The Volksdeutsche (as they were called) were under heavy Nazi influence
and served as the fifth column during the invasion of Yugoslavia. The Germans had been given control
over the Yugoslav region of Banat in which they ruled over the local Slav majority, forming Waffen SS
volunteer formations. This was primarily the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, one of the
most infamous SS units, responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of Yugoslav civilians, as well as
brutal reprisals resulting in the desolation of entire areas.[98] With rare exceptions, the Yugoslav
Volksdeutsche collaborated wholeheartedly with the occupation, supplying more than 60,000 troops for
German military formations, and actively participating in the brutal repression of the Yugoslav
populace.[98] On November 21, 1944, the Presidium of the AVNOJ (the Yugoslav parliament) declared
the German minority in Yugoslavia collectively hostile to the Yugoslav state.[99] The AVNOJ Presidium
issued a decree that ordered the government confiscation of all property of Nazi Germany and its
citizens in Yugoslavia, persons of German nationality (regardless of citizenship), and collaborators. The
decision acquired the force of law on February 6, 1945.[100]

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Partial defense

Despite accusations of culpability in the Bleiburg massacre, Josip Broz Tito repeatedly issued calls for
surrender to the retreating column, offering amnesty and attempting to avoid a disorderly
surrender.[101] On May 14 he dispatched a telegram to the supreme headquarters Slovene Partisan
Army prohibiting "in the sternest language" the execution of prisoners of war and commanding the
transfer of the possible suspects to a military court.[102]

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Awards and decorations

Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav ribbons (foreign ribbons excluded)

Main article: Awards and decorations of Josip Broz Tito (full list of awards)

Josip Broz Tito received a total of 119 awards and decorations from 60 countries around the world (59
countries and Yugoslavia). 21 decorations were from Yugoslavia itself, 18 having been awarded once,
and the Order of the People's Hero on three occasions. Of the 98 international awards and decorations,
92 were received once, and three on two occasions (Order of the White Lion, Polonia Restituta, and Karl
Marx). The most notable awards being the French Légion d'honneur and Ordre national du Mérite, the
British Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Soviet Order of Lenin, the Japanese Supreme Order of
the Chrysanthemum, the German Federal Cross of Merit, and the Italian Ordine al Merito della
Repubblica Italiana.

The decorations were seldom displayed, however. After the Tito-Stalin split of 1948 and his inauguration
as president in 1953, Tito rarely wore his uniform except when present in a military function, and then
(with rare exception) only wore his Yugoslav ribbons for obvious practical reasons. The awards were
displayed in full number only at his funeral in 1980.[103] Tito's reputation as one of the Allied leaders of
World War II, along with his diplomatic position as the founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was
primarily the cause of the favorable international recognition.[103]

Here follows a short list including some of the more notable awards and decorations of Josip Broz
Tito.Award or decoration CountryDate Place Note Ref

Order of Léopold Belgium 6 October 1970 Brussels One of the three

Belgian national honorary knight orders. Highest Order of Belgium. [103]

Order of the White Lion

(awarded two times) Czechoslovakia 22 March 1946

26 September 1964 Prague

Brijuni The highest order of Czechoslovakia. [103]

Order of the Elephant Denmark 29 October 1974 Copenhagen Highest order

of Denmark. [104]

Légion d'honneur France 7 May 1956 Paris Highest decoration of France, awarded
for extraordinary contributions in the struggle for peace. [103]

Ordre national du Mérite France 6 December 1976 Belgrade Order of

Chivalry awarded by the President of the French Republic ("National Order of Merit"). [103]
 Federal Cross of Merit West Germany 24 June 1974 Bonn Highest possible class of the
only general state decoration of West Germany. [103]

Order of the Redeemer Greece 2 June 1954 Athens Highest royal decoration of Greece.
[103]

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Italy 2 October 1969 Belgrade Highest honour
of Italy, foremost Italian order of knighthood, awarded to Josip Broz Tito in Belgrade. [103]

Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum Japan 8 April 1968 Tokyo Highest Japanese
decoration for living persons. [103]

Order of the Aztec Eagle Mexico 30 March 1963 Belgrade Highest decoration
awarded to foreigners in Mexico. [103]

Order of the Netherlands Lion Netherlands 20 October 1970 Amsterdam Order

of the Netherlands which was first created by the first King of the Netherlands, King William I. [103]

Grand Cross with Collar of St. Olav Norway 13 May 1965 Oslo Highest
Norwegian order of chivalry. [103]

Order Virtuti Militari Poland 16 March 1946 Warsaw Poland's highest military
decoration for courage in the face of the enemy. [103]

Order of Polonia Restituta

(awarded two times) Poland 25 June 1964

4 May 1973 Warsaw

Brdo Castle One of Poland's highest orders. [103]

Order of Saint James of the Sword Portugal 23 October 1975 Belgrade

Portuguese order of chivalry, founded in 1171. [103]

Order of Lenina Soviet Union 5 June 1972 Moscow Highest National Order of the
Soviet Union (highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union). [103]

Order of Victorya Soviet Union 9 September 1945 Belgrade Highest military

decoration of the Soviet Union, one of only 5 foreigners to receive it. [105]

Royal Order of the Seraphim Sweden 29 February 1959 Stockholm

Swedish Royal order of chivalry, established by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748. [103]

Most Honourable Order of the Bath United Kingdom 17 October 1972

Belgrade British order of chivalry, awarded in Belgrade by Queen Elizabeth II. [103]
 Order of the Yugoslav Stara Yugoslavia 1 February 1954 Belgrade Highest
Yugoslav national order of merit.[106] [103]

Note: aNow defunct.

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43.)

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Roberts, Walter R. (1987). Tito, Mihailovic and the Allies, 1941-1945. Duke University Press. ISBN
0822307731.

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Experiment. University of California Press.

Tomasevich, Jozo (1975). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: The Chetniks. Stanford
University Press. ISBN 0804708576.

Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration.
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Vinterhalter, Vilko (1972). In the Path of Tito. Abacus Press.

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Further reading

Beloff, Nora (1986). Tito's Flawed Legacy: Yugoslavia and the West Since 1939. Westview Pr. ISBN
0813303222.

Carter, April (1989). Marshal Tito: A Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313280878.

Đilas, Milovan (2001). Tito: The Story from Inside. Phoenix Press. ISBN 1842120476.

MacLean, Fitzroy (1980). Tito: A Pictorial Biography. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070446717.

Pavlowitch, Stevan K. (1992). Tito: Yugoslavia's Great Dictator, A Reassessment. Ohio State University
Press. ISBN 0814206018.

Vukcevich, Boško S. (1994). Tito: Architect of Yugoslav Disintegration. Rivercross Publishing. ISBN
0944957463.

West, Richard (1996). Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia. Basic Books. ISBN 0786703326.

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