Stop sending people to kill me.  We’ve already captured five of them, one 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. — message from Tito to Stalin found on Stalin’s desk after his death. In the …

  • June 2, 2021
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The letters began flying furiously back and forth on 27 March 1948. Instead of seeking a friendly agreement with the Soviet Government on the question of military advisors, the Yugoslav military leaders began to abuse the Soviet military advisors and discredit the Soviet Army. It was clear the situation was bound to create an atmosphere …

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Near the end of September 1944 an important meeting between the Yugoslav Partizan leader, Josip Broz Tito, and Stalin took place.  It was not precisely easy for Tito to get to the meeting – he, his dog Tigar, and several advisors had flown to the Soviet lines in Romania before being transferred to Soviet aircraft …

  • March 17, 2021
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The speeches of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia were the stuff of legends.  Charismatic and having shown unquestionable bravery as a Partizan, Tito was constantly communicating with the Yugoslav public through speeches and interviews with the press.  It was easy for many Yugoslavs to focus on the public persona of a national head who so perfectly …

  • March 16, 2021
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For Croats I was a Serb and a unitarian from the beginning.  To Serbs, a Frankist [radical Croatian nationalist] and Ustaša; to  Ustaše a dangerous Marxist and communist; to Marxists a salon communist; to clergy and believers, the antichrist who should be nailed to a shameful pillar.  For the bourgeoisie after the war I am …

  • March 15, 2021
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The leadership of the Yugoslav Communist Party is carrying out a policy unfriendly toward the Soviet Union and to the All-Union Communist Party. In Yugoslavia an unworthy policy of belittling Soviet military experts and discrediting the Soviet Army has been permitted. Soviet civilian specialists in Yugoslavia have been subjected to a special regime, on the …

  • March 15, 2021
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On 1 September 1961, the first conference of the nonaligned nations was held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and it would change the face of the Cold War. After World War II, India and Pakistan became independent from Great Britain.  Josip Broz Tito was expelled from the COMINFORM and Warsaw Pact for refusing to submit to Soviet …

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“We are not going to pay the balance on others’ accounts, we are not going to serve as pocket money in anyone’s currency exchange, we are not going to allow ourselves to become entangled in political spheres of interest.  Why should it be held against our peoples that they want to be completely independent?  And …

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Josip Broz Tito loved dogs.  Although people may not have known that before World War II, they certainly realized it after as photos of him with his omnipresent canine companions circulated throughout Yugoslavia and the world.  And if it weren’t for a dog, Yugoslavia may never have existed.  Or, at least, not the Yugoslavia that …

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Within the thousands of pictures the world has of Yugoslavia’s apex leader Josip Broz Tito are many, many photos of  the Yugoslav leader in various poses and situations with his pet dogs.   Tito was well-known as an animal lover.  During his time in leadership, other world leaders would send exotic beasts of all types to …

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