Josip Broz Tito, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Josip Broz Tito

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman

Date of Birth: 07-May-1892

Place of Birth: Kumrovec, Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia

Date of Death: 04-May-1980

Profession: politician, machinist, statesperson, Esperantist, resistance fighter

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Josip Broz Tito

  • Josip Broz (Cyrillic: ????? ????, pronounced [josip brô?z]; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; Cyrillic: ????, pronounced [tîto]), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980.
  • During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe.
  • While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian and concerns about the repression of political opponents have been raised, Tito has traditionally been seen as a benevolent dictator.He was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad.
  • Viewed as a unifying symbol, his internal policies maintained the peaceful coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation.
  • He gained further international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.Broz was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia).
  • Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time.
  • After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains.
  • He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent Civil War.
  • Upon his return to the Balkans in 1918, Broz entered the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
  • He later was elected as General Secretary (later Chairman of the Presidium) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–1980).
  • During World War II, after the Nazi invasion of the area, he led the Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans (1941–1945).After the war, he was selected as Prime Minister (1944–1963), and President (later President for Life) (1953–1980) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
  • From 1943 to his death in 1980, Tito 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, he 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 November 1943 until April 1992.
  • Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he became the first Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony in 1948.
  • He was the only leader in Joseph Stalin's time to leave Cominform and begin with his country's own socialist program, which contained elements of market socialism.
  • Economists active in the former Yugoslavia, including Czech-born Jaroslav Vanek and Yugoslav-born Branko Horvat, promoted a model of market socialism that was dubbed the Illyrian model.
  • Firms were socially owned by their employees and structured on workers' self-management; they competed in open and free markets.
  • Tito built a very powerful cult of personality around himself, which was maintained by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia after his death. Tito managed to keep ethnic tensions under control by delegating as much power as possible to each republic.
  • The 1974 Yugoslav Constitution defined SFR Yugoslavia as a "federal republic of equal nations and nationalities, freely united on the principle of brotherhood and unity in achieving specific and common interest." Each republic was also given the right to self-determination and secession if done through legal channels.
  • Lastly, Kosovo and Vojvodina, the two constituent provinces of Serbia, received substantially increased autonomy, including de facto veto power in the Serbian parliament.
  • Ten years after his death, Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe, and Yugoslavia descended into civil war.

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