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Josip Broz Tito

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)

  • Fame77.2
  • Momentum6.0
  • Activists rank#11
Source-basedStable
  • Fame77.2
  • Momentum6.0
  • Activists rank#11
  • Wikipedia193.4K
Lived 1892–1980, aged 88
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    111 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1892–1980
    Aged 88
  • Known for
    Houston, We Have a Pro…
    2016
Summary
Updated 2026-08-31

The communist who told Stalin no. Tito led Yugoslavia for nearly four decades, split from Moscow in 1948 while Stalin was still alive, and held together a federation of fractious ethnic groups that tore itself apart in the bloodiest European wars since 1945 a dozen years after he died.

Biography

About

Born in 1892 in what was then Austria-Hungary, Josip Broz became the youngest sergeant major in its army before being wounded and captured by Russians in World War I. Sent to a work camp in the Urals, he joined the Bolshevik Revolution and the civil war that followed. Returning to the Balkans in 1920, he rose through Yugoslavia's Communist Party, taking control by 1937. During World War II he commanded the Partisans, a guerrilla force considered the most effective resistance in occupied Europe, and by late 1943 held power with Allied backing. As prime minister and then president, he built a co…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito
said
No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has.
— Concerning the National Question and Social Patriotism Speech held at the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, November 26, 1948, Ljubljana
Josip Broz Tito
said
Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia.
— “Our Optimism and Faith” Liberation magazine, page 3 (United Committee of South- Slavonic Americans, 1945)
Josip Broz Tito
saidundated
I knew that many things were wrong... I witnessed a great many injustices...
— Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 142.
Josip Broz Tito
saidundated
The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism.
— Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 155.
Josip Broz Tito
saidundated
It will do for the moment.
— Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 177.
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77.2
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Historical31.0
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Source confidence65.0
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