No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has.
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)
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.
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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No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has.
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.
I knew that many things were wrong... I witnessed a great many injustices...
The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism.
It will do for the moment.
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